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when i first discovered arachnoboards, i had no clue what many of the slang terms meant. i thought there should be some sort of sticky list of all these terms available to newbs, so here it is. i did get a little help from warpig's contibution to the arachnophiles' list. feel free to add anything i leave out!
The List
T - tarantula
sling - spiderling
hide - a place for your tarantula to hide (often a piece of wood or flower pot)
cork - cork bark (a type of dry wood that does not mold easily, often used as a hide)
substrate - the material that is the bottom layer of the of the cage (used for burrow making and the retention of water)
OW - old world
NW - new world
WC - wild caught
CB - captive bred
CH - captive hatched
FS/T - for sale/trade
WTB - want to buy
RCF - red color form
OBT - orange baboon tarantula (orange bitey thing, Pterinochilus murinis)
GBB - green bottle blue (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
50/50 trade - a tarantula is bred with someone else's and you split the resulting sac half/half
ICU - intensive care unit
KK - kritter keeper
Avic - genus Avicularia
Pokie - genus Poecilotheria
Psalmo - genus Psalmopoeus
Brachy - genus Brachypelma
Grammy - genus Grammostola
Taps - genus Tapinauchenius
Sp. - species
Penultimate molt - term for the stage in the life of a male tarantula which is just before he becomes sexually mature
Ultimate molt - term for the stage in a male's developement where he is now sexually mature
Postultimate molt - term for the stage in a male tarantula's life where he molts out of his sexually mature state to one of losing his sexual organs (most males will not be able to complete this molt and die in the process)
Spermathecae - term for female tarantula's reproductive organs, these are visible on a shed molt. a scope will be required to see them on younger spiderlings
The List
T - tarantula
sling - spiderling
hide - a place for your tarantula to hide (often a piece of wood or flower pot)
cork - cork bark (a type of dry wood that does not mold easily, often used as a hide)
substrate - the material that is the bottom layer of the of the cage (used for burrow making and the retention of water)
OW - old world
NW - new world
WC - wild caught
CB - captive bred
CH - captive hatched
FS/T - for sale/trade
WTB - want to buy
RCF - red color form
OBT - orange baboon tarantula (orange bitey thing, Pterinochilus murinis)
GBB - green bottle blue (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
50/50 trade - a tarantula is bred with someone else's and you split the resulting sac half/half
ICU - intensive care unit
KK - kritter keeper
Avic - genus Avicularia
Pokie - genus Poecilotheria
Psalmo - genus Psalmopoeus
Brachy - genus Brachypelma
Grammy - genus Grammostola
Taps - genus Tapinauchenius
Sp. - species
Penultimate molt - term for the stage in the life of a male tarantula which is just before he becomes sexually mature
Ultimate molt - term for the stage in a male's developement where he is now sexually mature
Postultimate molt - term for the stage in a male tarantula's life where he molts out of his sexually mature state to one of losing his sexual organs (most males will not be able to complete this molt and die in the process)
Spermathecae - term for female tarantula's reproductive organs, these are visible on a shed molt. a scope will be required to see them on younger spiderlings