My Pets (photos)

[TheEternal]

I see a lot of other people doing this, so I thought I'd share :)

What follows are pictures of all my personal inverts and other pets. These photos were taken with three different cameras (two belonging to JakeRocks), so the quality will vary ;) I hope everyone can get some form of enjoyment out of these. I'll add more spiders as I get more.

First up, my favorite tarantula. Her name is Gion, and she's a T. blondi. I've had her since she was under 2". She's now full grown (10.5") and gravid from a breeding with spiderman2's male. I can't wait to see her little babies! :D

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Next up: a baby A. versicolor. My male produced ~70 in a breeding with one of Todd Gearheart's females. I only kept three for my personal collection, and they're all adorable! :D

This is my favorite tarantula species, by the way.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

This is my wee B. albopilosum who's still a first instar. I got it from Jake, who just bred them. This is such an awesome species!

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

This is my baby B. boehmi I got from Todd Gearheart. It's around 4th instar, I think. I love how you can already start to see a hint of the colors to come :)

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

My beautiful B. smithi female, Edana. She's been in my collection for a few years now (bought her from Todd Gearheart). She's such a docile thing, and certainly the favorite of most of my friends.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

One of my personal favorites, my female C. cyanpubescens, Quirk. I got her from Todd Gearheart last year (noticing a trend here?). She's a little spaz that loves to escape when I'm feeding her, but she's too pretty for me to ever hold it against her!

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

This is my new C. faciatum I got at F.I.R.E. over the weekend. It's fattened up, now, but I still haven't had a chance to sex it. Truly a beautiful spider.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

One of the jewels of my collection: My E. murinus female: Grim. I got her from a pet shop, here in town (to my great surprise!). This is my idea of true beauty in the tarantula world. I could stare at the paterns on her for hours (and have!).

Oddly enough, she insanely docile. I don't understand it.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

This is the most frustrating spider in my collection. Her name is Kieran. She's a female G. pulchra. She's 2" long... AND TWO YEARS OLD! :eek: This is probably the slowest growing spider I've ever seen! :)

Still, she's a sweetheart.

I got her from Glade's Herp two years ago for only $5! Talk about a bargain.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

What collection is complete without a G. rosea? This is a female I rescued from a pet shop whom I later bred with a male from another pet shop (she's gravid now). Her name is Medusa, for any curious.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Another of my favorites, my female N. chromatus, Nightcrawler. This girl has some true personality!! Whether it's teleporting (she doesn't move, she teleports) to pounce on food or me misting her, or throwing up huge threat displays, she's always doing something.

I got her from Todd Gearheart about a month before Quirk. She's not even a year old, and she's already 4" long!

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

One of my other new ones from the F.I.R.E. show (bought from Inland Sea Reptiles). This is my new P. cancerides. I can't say much about her, yet, but she does have some attitude.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Another one of my neat new additions. This is my new solifugid, Critter. I don't know much about Critter, except to stay away from those jaws. YIKES!

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

They don't come any cuter. This is my rat (half dumbo, half hairless), Evil. You can call her Eve, though.

-Bryan

[Socrates]

Bryan,
Please keep 'em coming...WOW what an absolutely awesome collection! All your Ts look absolutely fabulous!

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Wendy
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[Brian S]

Bryan, You have some very cool Ts. I just ordered a C fasciatum and a Psalmopoeus cambridgei today.

[Goliath]

Awesome collection Bryan, nice pictures and some good looking T's.
Mike

[Jakob]

Good stuff Bryan!

Later,

Jake

[T_DORKUS]

That rat is a cutie! :D
Cool T's too. ;)

[ShaunHolder]

Thanks for posting the great pics. :D

Whats up with that G.Rosea? A post molt pic?

[TheEternal]

Whats up with that G.Rosea? A post molt pic?

Sure is. About two months, post molt. She's really brown, but I still like her.

Thanks for all the compliments, guys! :) I'll try to keep this updated as I take more and more photos.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

That rat is a cutie! :D

Isn't she the best?! :) I love her to death!

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

An update for ya: Here's my freshly molted P. cancerides. Why do they call them Hatian browns anyway? ;)

-Bryan

[Pheonixx]

nice collection. Lots of great looking T's there

[Mattyb]

Awesome collection man. I love the rat! {D

[Zombie]

They don't come any cuter. This is my rat (half dumbo, half hairless), Evil. You can call her Eve, though.

-Bryan

AHAHAHAHAHAHA....

That's probably only funny to me.


Nice collection Bryan.
That's a sharp looking cyaneopubescens.

[Greg Wolfe]

WOW!!! Awesome pix! Your gravid Blondi is beautiful!

[Yve]

you have a beautiful collection Brian.:) The t. blondi is awesome...I might have to get me one of those....


AHAHAHAHAHAHA....
That's probably only funny to me.

Its YVEL to you! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[TheEternal]

Some new photos for you all to enjoy. First, a new one of my rat, Eve :)

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

My freshly molted B. boehmi spiderling. I love how I can see the leg stripes, now! :D

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Next up, my beautiful B. smithi. She's such a sweetheart!

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Lastly, at least for this update, my P. canderides. I caught him enjoying an anole we caught in the house.

-Bryan

[cichlidsman]

Some new photos for you all to enjoy. First, a new one of my rat, Eve :)

-Bryan
did you shave the rat? :? {D

[TheEternal]

did you shave the rat? :? {D

Haha! No! I get that all the time, though. She's a genetically hairless rat. Well, half hairless. True hairless have too many health issues.

I like my mammals without hair ;)

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

YIKES! I just realized that I left off two VERY important pictures.

First, one of my jewels. My Cyriocosmus elegans. This is my favorite genus of tarantulas, but they're *SO* hard to come by in the US!

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Next, my sub-adult female C. cyanpubescens. She's in her akward stage, as I call it. The colors just don't do her justice at the moment.

-Bryan

[cichlidsman]

Next, my sub-adult female C. cyanpubescens. She's in her akward stage, as I call it. The colors just don't do her justice at the moment.

-Bryan
this one is nice. how big is it?

[manville]

WOAH! to the C elegans. Very very nice tarantula collection!

[Spider-man 2]

Bryan, I like how you add a little story to each spider. Nice touch!

That's the first gravid pic I have seen of Gion since breeding. She is a fattie. I am glad my male got the job done. LOL

[TheEternal]

this one is nice. how big is it?

Maybe just shy of 3". I never measure for real, though. So it's just a guess.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Bryan, I like how you add a little story to each spider. Nice touch!

They deserve a whole bunch more! ;)

That's the first gravid pic I have seen of Gion since breeding. She is a fattie. I am glad my male got the job done. LOL

Indeed. I'm hoping she drops the sac, soon. It's hard to keep waiting! :D

-Bryan

[MyNameHere]

Some new photos for you all to enjoy. First, a new one of my rat, Eve :)

-Bryan
Me reading this post:

*seeing the pic before reading*
*GASP!!*
*thinking* "Is he gonna feed that to something?"
*reading the text*
"Awww!"
*glad she's not food*

She's really cute, makes me pine for my rattie-keeping days, but the T's are less work, and they smell better. Usually :D

[8leggedrobot]

I know that feeling, LOL :rolleyes: I've had several pet rats and other rodents... I'm not getting any pets I have to feed mammals to. ;) This is why I don't have snakes anymore that need to eat things other than crickets/ anoles/ fish. I can cope with that. ;P LOL

[TheEternal]

Time to update! All of these photos were taken tonight, and this is my entire tarantula collection. Details are listed on the photos.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Here's the next five :)

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Can anyone tell I swiped my girlfriend's camera when she went to work today? ;)

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Last batch.

-Bryan

[PapaRoacher]

Another one of my neat new additions. This is my new solifugid, Critter. I don't know much about Critter, except to stay away from those jaws. YIKES!

-Bryan

Isn't that a Camel Spider?

[TheEternal]

Isn't that a Camel Spider?

There's no such thing ;P

-Bryan

[Vys]

Grim is so cool, but that tank doesn't look so fun?

[TheEternal]

Grim is so cool, but that tank doesn't look so fun?

I don't really know why, but every time she webs up her tank, the web turns yellow/brownish within a few days. I used to clean it every time it happened, but I just leave it now. Does anyone else have this problem?

-Bryan

[shogun804]

hey man nice pics i have an N Chrom. aslo its very small though only like 3 months old though very small like a .5 to .75 inches total if that im hoping to see some real big changes throughout the year though i got really excited when i saw the pic you posted...really nice man great collection

[shogun804]

hey man nice pics i have an N Chrom. aslo its very small though only like 3 months old though very small like a .5 to .75 inches total if that im hoping to see some real big changes throughout the year though i got really excited when i saw the pic you posted...really nice man great collection

[MeteoRa]

nice collections :D

[PapaRoacher]

There's no such thing ;P

-Bryan

Isn't this a Camel Spider?

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/solpugid3.jpg

[TheEternal]

Isn't this a Camel Spider?

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/solpugid3.jpg

There is no such thing as a camel spider. Those are solifugids :}

-Bryan

[Fred]

how long have you had your T. blondi?

[Jakob]

Where was I when you got that Bluefang? I'm jealous... :)

Later,

Jake

[TheEternal]

how long have you had your T. blondi?

Three years now, I think.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Where was I when you got that Bluefang? I'm jealous... :)

I got it when I ordered Rachel's birthday gift (she'll be making a post about that soon enough). Remember when you were leaving for the Tampa show and I told you not to worry about grabbing me anything 'cause I just placed an order? ;)

-Bryan

[Spider-man 2]

Hey Bryan,

Is Gion still gravid? Are you expecting her to lay an eggsac soon? Lemme know.
Thanks!

[MichiganHerp]

There's no such thing ;P

-Bryan

Also known common names are Camel Spider, Wind scorpion, wind spider, etc... This species has a lot of common names because of how it looks and how big it gets. I personally think its freaky looking. ;P

[TheEternal]

Is Gion still gravid? Are you expecting her to lay an eggsac soon? Lemme know.

I don't know how she would become ungravid ;) Yes. Jake and I are both expecting the sac any day. I check her every morning for it.

-Bryan

[TheEternal]

Also known common names are Camel Spider, Wind scorpion, wind spider, etc... This species has a lot of common names because of how it looks and how big it gets. I personally think its freaky looking. ;P

I'm aware, but I *HATE* that common name. It's a recent one that's surrounded by massive amounts of urban legends. On top of that, it's not a spider and has nothing to do with camels.

-Bryan