Any arachnid keepers?

[Fish_are_fishfood]

All this thread does to me, is make me want to role up a newpaper and *>SPLAT<* Ha, im just joking, those spiders look so awesome. I always wanted to get a scorpion, or spider, but I would always be terrified of them somehow getting out of their cage and find them in my bed. Cool stuff Beardo

I can handle regular small spiders, like when theres one in my room, I let them run on my arm and bring em outside, or if there big & scary lookin I get a cup and scoop'em up to bring them out, I never kill them. But I don't know if I could handle a big tarantula.

 

[Mourinho18]

I'm fine with spiders as long as they stay a good few feet away from me.

 

[lizardfishman]

i love the blue fanged spider and the scorpions

 

[sandtiger]

I am actually in the works for getting my first T. It is going to be a rose hair since I read they are the best for people just starting in the hobby. I do have several jumping spiders and other spiders living all around the house though. I actually have one daring jumping spider that I am keeping captive, it is so cool wtching them stalk and pounce on their prey. When I was a kid I used to keep all kinds of local spider and remember having a jumper for about a year.

Awsome pictures BTW.

 

[guppy]

Anybody keep sun spiders? also called wind scorpions, great little monsters.

 

[Beardo]

Solfugids (Sun Spiders, etc) make very poor captives. They stress to the point of death if not kept super hot and they have a maximum lifespan that ranges from a few weeks to a few months. Its too bad because they are wicked looking critters.

 

[guppy]

I never kept one but always liked their looks.

 

[softturtle]

I just checked out your gallery and without a doubt, your mystery spider is a Stout-Leg Baboon (Eucratoscelus pachypus)....very cool spiders. Its definitely a species I'd like to get in the future.

Thanx Yeah, its a very cool spider. I originally bought them under the impression that it was a red feater leg (stromatopelma calceatum) spiderling (with about 9 others, I bought 10). I then realised at about .5 " that they couldn,t walk up walls. Yep, needless to say I was a little pissed. Got rid of all of them except one. Now I wish I had some more to try and breed them. Cool, agressive little tarantula. Also very slow growing, only about 3" in a year and a half.

 

[Beardo]

Thats a common mistake people make....E. pachypus is often mislabeled as S. calceatum.

 

[Marcel_h]

i own the following species:

0-0-1 Theraphosa blondi
0-1 Brachypelma boehmi
0-1 Brachypelma Albopilosa
0-2 Grammostola rosea
0-1 Lasiodora pharybana
0-1 Avicularia species