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| my mom said that if i got honors in school one more time(it's the last month of school here in tn)she'd consider a tarantula the pet store i've always bought from is were i plan on getting one from.i'd like a pink toe since there pretty docile,can be housed in a 5-gallon,& are beautiful p.s.if i get one i do plan on handling p.s.s.i'm not allergic too bee venom
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| they're fun spiders to keep! I have a small one right now. I bought a little one gal. aquarium flipped it on end and cut a piece of plastic to hold up substrate and put the lid on with a clip. I have found the best hides for these is a peice of cork bark put against the side of the cage. Many will tell you water dishes are unneccesary since these guys are arboreal but I have one in there anyway to help with humidity. I mist mine bascially daily and feed once a week and I give mine 3 crickets (not all at once). As for handling these spiders tend to be a bit skitish. Mine appears to hate the touch of my skin. I really don't handle mine all that much. For substrate I use pet soil mixed with a bit of repti-bark. my temps are from the lower 70's to the mid 80's. I also put some sphagnum moss in a corner for humidity since Avicularia Ts need a bit more humidtiy. The cool thing about these T's is the webs they make. They make these awsome tunnels that have one opening somewhere. If you're going to photograph them make sure the flash is on because it really brings out the blue-ish colors these guys have!
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| They are a good beginner arboreal spider. I used about the same set up that SCatheris uses but I have them in jars. You can get then at Walmart in the food storage department. I personally don't have a water dish in that cage but it is up to you. I only feed one cricket once a week, and spray when needed. You don't want to over spray because it can cause mold to grow. I used to use Eco-Earth substrate but I have also used a product called Peat Eliminator that I got a home improvement store ( it is still coco fiber but much cheaper and a lot more of it). Recently I got tried of mixing it up with water so I switched to peat moss that I got at the home improvement store. You can use plain potting soil as well but with any of these products you want to make sure that they don't have any chemicals in it. Read the labels. I don't use any Repti-bark with any of my 145 tarantulas even mixed because it is very abrasive and even though they have an exoskeleton they are still a very soft body animal. As far as temps go you don't have to worry about any heat elements. As long as your house doesn't fall into the 60's you are fine. They will be more active when the temperatures are warmer. Mine just molted yesterday. it is doing very good and it will eat next week. When you feed your tarantula if it doesn't eat the cricket in a day you want to take it out. It is not wise to leave crickets in the cage. They can actually harm your spider, especially if it happens to molt. Most times but not always they will stop eating before they molt. Once they molt do not pick them up or feed it for a few days to a couple of weeks depending on the size of the tarantula until the exoskeleton hardens. You will be able to tell when the fangs are black again. 
This is today she was shy and didn't want to stretch out for me but she's hanging out in her hammock, which by the way is water proof to a point. 
This is her home a few months ago before she made her hammock. Once she gets bigger we'll more her to larger jar: 
- Bearded Dragon
- 2 Viper Geckos
- Sinaloan Milksnake
- 145 Tarantulas and counting
- 1 trap door spider
- 8 scorpions
- 4 Birds
- 3 gallon Male Betta
- Baby red devil/Midas cichlid
- 7 gallon nano reef tank
- 125 gallon freshwater tank.
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show a picture of the molt. I would like to see one. do you own a store or something? 145 Tarantulas and counting?
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| Nope, we don't own a store they are all our pets (really hubby's pets). We do some shows with them. We did one last year at a small local museum by us and we have had show and tell at a couple of nature centers. In a couple of weeks we will have a arachnid work shop at the Petco that I work at. I did have a thread that I posted last year on a Grammostola rosea-Chilean rose hair that molted. You can see how it progress though the molting process. Most of the time you never really catch them molting. One day you go and look at it and there is the molt. We knew that the Avicularia avicularia-Pink Toe Tarantula was getting ready to molt because it had stopped eating, it's abdomen was fairly large and it was duller in color and ours seems to make a hammock when it is getting ready to molt. Well I looked yesterday and it had molted. By the way once the molt drys it's like tissue paper. Here is the link to the old thread that I posed. http://board.reptilechannel.com/Topic63753-22-1.aspx
- Bearded Dragon
- 2 Viper Geckos
- Sinaloan Milksnake
- 145 Tarantulas and counting
- 1 trap door spider
- 8 scorpions
- 4 Birds
- 3 gallon Male Betta
- Baby red devil/Midas cichlid
- 7 gallon nano reef tank
- 125 gallon freshwater tank.
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that was neat. how many different breeds of them do you think you have?
my herps:
female ringed california mountain kingsnake,=naiomi
male albino cornsnake,=blazer
male pine barrens treefrog|R.I.P.=faraday
male Bahamian anole,=courtiza
male&female green anoles.=opal & ash
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I'm glad that you liked the pictures. It was great actually watching it. It is a very slow process. As for how many, I believe we have over 80 different species of tarantulas, 1 trap door spider and 4 different species of scorpions.
- Bearded Dragon
- 2 Viper Geckos
- Sinaloan Milksnake
- 145 Tarantulas and counting
- 1 trap door spider
- 8 scorpions
- 4 Birds
- 3 gallon Male Betta
- Baby red devil/Midas cichlid
- 7 gallon nano reef tank
- 125 gallon freshwater tank.
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if you have 4 species of scorpions, and 8 of them. do you have a male and a female of each?
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We have three species that live alone. One is in a group of 3 and there is male/female and we have emperors that is a male/female pair. Some species of scorpions are communal and some are not.
- Bearded Dragon
- 2 Viper Geckos
- Sinaloan Milksnake
- 145 Tarantulas and counting
- 1 trap door spider
- 8 scorpions
- 4 Birds
- 3 gallon Male Betta
- Baby red devil/Midas cichlid
- 7 gallon nano reef tank
- 125 gallon freshwater tank.
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