Introduce Yourself

[MidSouthMorphs]

Hello everyone, just joined the forum a few days ago. I use to keep Scorpions and Tarantulas a few years ago before I went into the military. I am out now and just got my fist arachnid again. Bought an Emporer Scorpion. I use to have a diverse collection from Emporers to Yellow Fat Tails. Looking forward to learning new things.

[NOSIOd]

My name is Corey, I live in Southern California and my main reason for joining the forums is to gain more knowledge in the hobby of "T" collecting. I am new to the hobby and I am always looking to better my understanding of these beautiful/fragile creatures. It's hard to find people outside of the internet who are into the hobby so I figured this would be a great place to meet and interact with like minded folks.

[Xano]

Hi my name is Xan, I have 14 tarantulas my newest eight legged friend is a New River Rustic Rump, she just arrived today and she is beautiful. I live in the UK and I joined the forum to meet others who are crazt about eight legged critters

[BubbleTrouble]

Hallo to each and all.

It gives me a great pleasure to join a second Tarantula forum to gain more knowledge and to share our extremely beautiful hobby with all. Knowledge is power or in our case our responsibility to know how to take care of Theraphosidae.

I am currently compiling research papers on specific Tarantula species, which will have to be graded by UP "University of Pretoria" before I am allowed to publish it, for all to read. Please note this will take time as in depth research will be required and communication with people in said countries of origins etc.

I also hope to make more friends to share knowledge with as time goes by.

[longwing]

Hi, my name is Buzz. I've always been interested in all animals (apart from the apes) but only had a lot to do with spiders for the last 4 years. I lived in Glasgow until June this year and there I was the head keeper of the animals at the university's zoology museum - most of these were inverts and we had a handful of tarantulas and scorpions. I got used to looking after them and studying their behaviour there before coming over here. Now I'm in Christchurch in New Zealand and I'm doing my MSci in zoology. I have a few projects going towards this concerning the katipo and redback spiders, Latrodectus katipo/hasseltii. It's heaps of fun and I'd like to continue studying arachnids. I like all of them but particularly the spiders, pseudoscorpions and mites. At the moment I'm looking for ideas for my PhD and ideally I'd like to continue my Latrodectus studies or study the ecology of pseudoscorpions or mites. What fascinates me about spiders is their behaviour. The more I read about it the more interesting it becomes! Of course with mites and pseudoscorpions so little study has been done that I'm keen to see what's beneath the surface. Mites are so diverse and important for ecosystems in ways we're only beginning to understand while hardly anything at all is known about pseudoscorpions. I found one while I was out doing fieldwork that had hold of a fly twice as big as itself with one claw. The fly was buzzing with all its mite but the pseudoscorpion didn't let go. That's pretty darn impressive to me.

Anyway, I'm here to learn mostly although I have a wee bit of experience with the Latrodectus species so who knows, I might have some knowledge that is of value to someone.

[persistent]

Hi everyone!
My name is Ewoud and I'm from Belgium. I recently got my first tarantula so joining these forums seemed like a logical step.
I've been into keeping and breeding praying mantises for about 2,5 years now. Recently a friend asked me if I could take over there pet tarantula. They're a bunch of young people living together and one of them realised it wasn't really taken care of very properly. Knowing I was into mantids he asked me I would want to keep it because he was sure I would take better care of it than his housemates.
When I was about 7 I really wanted a pet tarantula but my parents wouldn't let me and I got a pet turtle instead. Years have gone by and since I've gotten into mantids I hadn't really considered keeping Ts anymore. Looking up some info about them I immediatly noticed how interesting and beautiful they are. So I gadly took his offer and now since wednesday I got my first tarantula!
They had no idea about what species or sex it was but I'm quite sure it's a brachypelma vagans. They told me it should be about 4-4,5 years old. It also molted about a month or 2 ago and they kept the molt so I checked for signs of sex. Having no experience with this and the molt being damaged I haven't really been able to determine the sex. The molt made me think male, the undeside of the abdomen makes me think female. I haven't been able to take a good picture of the abdomen yet but I shall post it here once I do.
I'm really looking forward to this hobby and will probably get a larger collection once I've gained a little bit more knowledge and experience about them.
Cheers!

[Odyssey]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here too, my name is Kathy and I live in Newcastle (UK) with my husband Baz, 3 kids, and our animal gang, which includes snakes, a beardie, two cats and a dog. We are both arachnophobes although I have made a big effort to get over it by meeting some Ts and have ended up falling in love. I help in a local reptile shop and we had a juvenile grammostola rosea RCF in, allegedly female, but on bringing "her" home she moulted into a 2" MM. My husband is trying very hard to get over his fears too and given he is going blind (Stargardt's Disease) we wanted a spider that would get a bit bigger than this little guy, so have a 2nd on the way next week in the form of a female grammostola pulchripes.

Anyway, lovely to meet you all!

Kathy and co.

[Nogalo]

Hello everyone. My name is Jozo and I come from Croatia ( Europa ). I am in this hobby almost 2 year and i can tell I am new
I just have Tarantulas and that's it. I hope i can learn something from you I olso see lot's of picture and breading project's

Greeting Jozo

[MoonRaven]

Hello to everyone,

My name is Rachel, and I'm from Arkansas (US). The reason I decided to join this forum is because my boyfriend (Storm76) recently started the T hobby and has been getting me more and more interested the past number of months. My brother had a T when we were younger, but I don't recall what species it was or much else about it. Right now I'm just trying to learn and gather information about them before I consider getting one for myself. I've learned a lot more than I did before through my boyfriend, this forum, well known T keepers on youtube, and just ordered myself the "T bible" and another book that should arrive soon.
My favorite genuses so far would probably be: Avicularia, Acanthoscurria, Brachypelma, Chromatopelma, Grammostola, Lasiodora, Poecilotheria, Psalmopoeus, Nhandu, and I really like T's from many other genuses, as well.
While I do admire the beauty of these creatures, I'm not without worries in starting the hobby. Besides the obvious of getting bitten or haired, I'm a bit apprehensive since I worry about how to handle a situation if one should escape or run while trying to rehouse or clean the enclosure and about how my two cats and dog would react to one. I'd love some advice from people who own other pets one how they deal with keeping them separate and safe.

Anyways, I've really enjoyed looking around here so far and learning what I can and hope to own T's some day to show off and talk about.

[Storm76]

Hello to everyone,

My name is Rachel, and I'm from Arkansas (US). The reason I decided to join this forum is because my boyfriend (Storm76) recently started the T hobby and has been getting me more and more interested the past number of months. My brother had a T when we were younger, but I don't recall what species it was or much else about it. Right now I'm just trying to learn and gather information about them before I consider getting one for myself. I've learned a lot more than I did before through my boyfriend, this forum, well known T keepers on youtube, and just ordered myself the "T bible" and another book that should arrive soon.
My favorite genuses so far would probably be: Avicularia, Acanthoscurria, Brachypelma, Chromatopelma, Grammastola, Lasiodora, Poecilotheria, Psalmopoeus, Nhandu, and I really like T's from many other genuses, as well.
While I do admire the beauty of these creatures, I'm not without worries in starting the hobby. Besides the obvious of getting bitten or haired, I'm a bit apprehensive since I worry about how to handle a situation if one should escape or run while trying to rehouse or clean the enclosure and about how my two cats and dog would react to one. I'd love some advice from people who own other pets one how they deal with keeping them separate and safe.

Anyways, I've really enjoyed looking around here so far and learning what I can and hope to own T's some day to show off and talk about.

Suffice to say - I'm smiling Welcome to the "hobby"

[aLDoDarK]

Hi everyone!
I'm new here and I also just started to care a few of docile species tarantulas such as Chaco golden knee, B.Smithi, and B.Albopilosum. And I started first with the albopilosum and then get another 2 for just in a week time Guess that the tarantulas "venom" is really strong to make me addicted . Hope that we could learn and exploring about our hobby more on arachnoboard. Cheers!

[myprotos]

hello there XD

i'm korean

so i can't speak english very well, but try hard lol

hm..

i'm 26years old in korea (born at 1987)

i have some tarantulras but i'm newbie


metallica pinktoe/acicularis metalica (0.7inch/2cm)



Brazilian Red & White/Nhandu chromatus (2inch/5cm)
but we commonly call 'stripe redrump'


Pterinochilus murinus/Usambara variant(1inch)

[kelvintheiah]

hi everyone. im kelvin from philippines. planning to get my first T B. Albo or chaco golden knee if i can find cheaper one. I started to pet scorpion, Hottenttotta Hottenttotta that was given to me by my friend. im 2 months in the hobby. if anyone selling or willing to give me some B. albo or chaco golden knee or any beginners T let me know. i prefer receiving as a gift lol thanks.

[Eugene]

Hi everyone!

My name is Shayna and I'm from Ontario, Canada. I'm new to this board and to inverts all together. I have been keeping reptiles and amphibians for about 12 years and have decided to venture in to a new area. I purchased my first tarantula from Tarantula Canada a few days ago, it is a 1.5" Pamphobeteus platyomma sling and I am in love! I have interests in all animals and I currently own a bearded dragon, green iguana, a fire skink pair, and (a little out of place at my house) two rabbits. I spend my free time doing wildlife photography which can be seen here if interested: www.shaynahartley.com.
I am so happy to have found this forum and can't wait to learn more about my new found love.

[kelvintheiah]

you got some nice shots from your website. keep it up.

Hi everyone!

My name is Shayna and I'm from Ontario, Canada. I'm new to this board and to inverts all together. I have been keeping reptiles and amphibians for about 12 years and have decided to venture in to a new area. I purchased my first tarantula from Tarantula Canada a few days ago, it is a 1.5" Pamphobeteus platyomma sling and I am in love! I have interests in all animals and I currently own a bearded dragon, green iguana, a fire skink pair, and (a little out of place at my house) two rabbits. I spend my free time doing wildlife photography which can be seen here if interested: www.shaynahartley.com.
I am so happy to have found this forum and can't wait to learn more about my new found love.