Arachnids
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If a tarantula burrows in the wild it'll burrow in captivity. Rosehairs are terrestrial. I keep a 5" P. murinus in a 5 gallon enclosure and it's way more room than it needs or uses. My cobalt and H. maculata are around 3" and kept in one gallon plastic jars. All are kept on 100% peat.
If you want a scorpion that stings you could get a Hadrurus arizonensis/spadix or Smeringus mesaensis, both are active and readily sting their prey. I'd recommend you NOT getting a deathstalker.
If you want a scorpion that stings you could get a Hadrurus arizonensis/spadix or Smeringus mesaensis, both are active and readily sting their prey. I'd recommend you NOT getting a deathstalker.
Cool thanks. I'm off to google those scorps.
I was in the lfs today and apparently pinktoes are off their order list,
and rosehairs arent in until next wednesday.
Im gonna go to peterborough nearby and see if lfs there has any.
I was wondering, is there any reason in particular for not getting a deathstalker? Im definetly going to be getting a tarantula, just wondering though.
I was in the lfs today and apparently pinktoes are off their order list,
and rosehairs arent in until next wednesday.
Im gonna go to peterborough nearby and see if lfs there has any.
I was wondering, is there any reason in particular for not getting a deathstalker? Im definetly going to be getting a tarantula, just wondering though.
ShadowVengance
I'm not condoning it, but my cousin has an emperor scorpion and put a little common frog in the tank with it. The scorpion killed and ate the frog except for its front legs. I couldn't believe it until I saw the the frog legs in the tank and the scorpion puffed up.
I'm not condoning it, but my cousin has an emperor scorpion and put a little common frog in the tank with it. The scorpion killed and ate the frog except for its front legs. I couldn't believe it until I saw the the frog legs in the tank and the scorpion puffed up.
BTW I don't know where you heard that pinktoes are communal but that is not something I would try in captivity. In the wild they may be found close together, but close could mean anywhere less than 6 feet, in the confines of a cage you will definitely have cannibalism issues. The only spiders I have heard of any success with when keeping communally were spiderlings of certain African Baboon species (Pterinochilus) and that was only up to a certain size. One bit of advice, go out and buy The Tarantula Keeper's Guide, published by Barrons. It is the best $13 or so you could spend on keeping arachnids.
I have had many more Spiders than anyone that is as scared as I am should have. Ok in short I'm Arachnophobic even small little spiders drive me up the wall
, underglass, enclosed in glass or dead still give me the creeps and make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. 
Yeah it must be a funny site to see some guy as big as me, jumping across the room on site of a loose spider. Now Scorpines are another thing altogether, they don't bother me anymore than anyother six legged creature. Heck I've stepped on two bare footed, needless to say there dead and I'm not 
I got the friend thats a big time WebHead he has pinktoes and baboons running free in his 15'Lx6'Wx8'H green house. he says he uses the spiders to keep the finch population in the green house in check. I went to see this great greenhouse of his one day, and almost had a heart attack when a pinktoe run over my foot. (He forgot to mention the spiders until after I was about to loose my mind). Needless to I run through the koi pond and almost crashed through the glass sliding doors leading to his heated garage where he kept most of his Tarantula collection, trying to get out of this green house of horrors.
He kept this Green hell house for over 2 yrs without loosing any other the more than 10 free roaming spiders. He's told me that he even had two females breed in the greenhouse.
But the bulk of his critter he keeps in nothing larger than 3-5 gal cantainers and jars.
Maybe one day I'll post the funny story of me at Glades Herps talking with Rob Roy when they where still in Fort Meyers.
, underglass, enclosed in glass or dead still give me the creeps and make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Yeah it must be a funny site to see some guy as big as me, jumping across the room on site of a loose spider. Now Scorpines are another thing altogether, they don't bother me anymore than anyother six legged creature. Heck I've stepped on two bare footed, needless to say there dead and I'm not I got the friend thats a big time WebHead he has pinktoes and baboons running free in his 15'Lx6'Wx8'H green house. he says he uses the spiders to keep the finch population in the green house in check. I went to see this great greenhouse of his one day, and almost had a heart attack when a pinktoe run over my foot. (He forgot to mention the spiders until after I was about to loose my mind). Needless to I run through the koi pond and almost crashed through the glass sliding doors leading to his heated garage where he kept most of his Tarantula collection, trying to get out of this green house of horrors.
He kept this Green hell house for over 2 yrs without loosing any other the more than 10 free roaming spiders. He's told me that he even had two females breed in the greenhouse.
But the bulk of his critter he keeps in nothing larger than 3-5 gal cantainers and jars.
Maybe one day I'll post the funny story of me at Glades Herps talking with Rob Roy when they where still in Fort Meyers.
