Forum: Tarantula Chat

The title says it all, tell me the most potent in venom T, true spider, or scorpion you have/had. The most potent animal I have ever had was a brown widow.:happy:

I've been asking whats a good starter species for a while and I came down to some options which ever one of these you recommend just know that I'm getting a terrestrial I won't plan on handling it and please put a link to basic care sheet or something to the species and how much it will cost me. ...

hi guys I need your help to id my new baby its a G.rosea NCF or G.sp North? because the carapace is kinda gold pale than pinkish like common G.rosea its around 8cm LS so what's you say guys?

I've looked all over google, i searched the forums. Very little if any info on this species. My buddy has one and we are trying to figure out what the common name is, and well anything else on it! He seems to be keeping it just fine. Not sure of his conditions, but I wouldn't mind hearing how...

My GBB, I believe, is in the early stages of premolt. I noticed this last night as I watched it casually add webbing to its enclosure. This morning, it was still going at it, and I'm pretty certain that it webbed throughout the night judging by the amount of new webbing. Now, twelve hours later,...

what is the best choice for these 3 Ts? i need to choose only 1 and pls rank them 1st 2nd and 3rd according to their beauty, pros and cons :) tapinauchenius gigas? tapinauchenius violaceus? tapinauchenius cupreus? thanks!

Okay so I've been suffering from itchy hands due to urticating hairs ever since I got my first B. emilia in February (he never even haired me, just handling him was enough to cause me to have itchy hands and ongoing tiny blisters), he died the same month, however my reaction was extreme enough that...

Basically I'm looking for good pictures of T's. Doesn't mater what species, as long as you let me know so I don't have to do a bunch of research. If you guys can email them to me giving full disclosure, hell you can even put your name on the picture if you want in the bottom right hand corner...

Why do scorpions have the body dynamics to make babies without a mate but tarantulas don't?

My copy of the Tarantula Keepers Guide!!! Hooray!!! It took forever cause I kept spending my money on tarantulas instead lol.

Has anyone done this? Here in Canada, insecticides and pesticides are not allowed to be used, but a lot of plants come up from the states. So I'm not sure if they have them or not, so I want to clean them. How should I go abouts doing that? Just water and rub the plants? Is there a liquid I...

So I had a weird one last night. I dreamed I received a shipment of Ts. They were all tightly packed into one deli cup like you would see Vienna sausages or canned pickled peppers. I opened the lid. When I did they all started moving, they were packed very tightly together. I was sitting in...

It's fine to put polished rocks and minerals/glazed clay in a tarantulas cage right?

I have decided that I'm going to order a Poecilotheria rufilata /Redslate ornamental @ 1" and a Ornamental Baboon (Heteroscodra maculata) @2". I was going to get the female H.MAC I wanted but can't afford it so I'm going to just buy sling and pray for a female. I'm going to order the H mac...