Disposal

How do you dispose dead taranulas

  • Proper burial outside, perhaps under a tree..

    Votes: 23 41.1%
  • Garbage

    Votes: 14 25.0%
  • Toilet

    Votes: 5 8.9%
  • Cremate

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 14 25.0%

  • Total voters
    56

Chel

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How do you dispose of your dead tarantula?
 
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bonesmama

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Fry up the abdominal contents for breakfast on toast.;P The legs are also very good but hardly worth the effort (like crab!)
 

Cirith Ungol

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If small enough I feed them to my other spiders, if too large I give them to my sowbugs.
 

Leiurus87

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burial. tossing a dead animal out in the garbage, to me, is a grave insult to life. i can understand if you have lots, but i only have a very small collection (4 arachnids in all) so when they die, its burying. As for eating, a vietnam veteran told me that the best way to cook em is to toast em over a small fire and pick the legs off and enjoy something like salty lobster. I dont think i could do it though. He enjoyed H. Lividium more than once.
 
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Tarangela

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Yep, they are pretty darn precious to me :) So I humanize them, so what!
They're my babies, and if something happens to one of them, they get wrapped in a paper towel, inside of a freezer zip lock bag, and buried.
 

becca81

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If I'm not interested in preserving them at all, they go straight to the trash.
 

juggalo69

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I throw them in the woodpile out back and let nature take its course.
 

surena

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alcohol if they are worth keeping, otherwise trash.
 

Kali

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when not in the trash, i put them in my grandmother's potted plants as decor. she likes the surprise, and my grandfather's horror ;P
 

Scolopendra55

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I mount them as specimens. Please if anybody has any species of dead Poecilotheria please let me know as I want one for my collection. I will accept most dead T's just let me know what you have got with a private message.
 
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Kali

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donating them to classroom colections is also nice. i enjoy contributing to education.:)
 

Thoth

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bonesmama said:
Fry up the abdominal contents for breakfast on toast.;P The legs are also very good but hardly worth the effort (like crab!)
I sautee the whole t with garlic, only do this with OW species the urticating hairs on NW make my tongue tingle. ;P

I try preserving them for the practice otherwise just trash them.
 

Stefan-V

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Haven't had one die on me yet, but I'll do the same like my dead fishys.
*Flushes*{D

Stefan-V
 

dragyn5

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We just had our first one "Buy the farm"! Our L. parahybana sling didn't make it through a molt. We want to bury her and say some nice words....but the ground is frozen and we just had 18 inches of snow. She is in a plastic container until we can break ground. Luckily she is only about an inch.

:(
 

MissssSnape

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I preserve them. I first take the guts out and put cotton in then I use hairspray and let them dry out. I spray them around 2 times a week till they are totally dried out and then put them in a nice dry display tray!!!.

I just don't have any die on me yet but that's what I would do. I did it to my praying matisses.
 

Pandora

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I've put a big spiders (scorpions too) on plastic container and take place them in freezer (I hope, I'll make the effigies from these spiders in the future). And small spiders is a good food for a roaches :)
 
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