Hey Guys i would like to get into the Spider hobby would like to get a tarantula is there any like spider forums or something that may help me?
Hi! Used to have a friend with a great collection of 'pidies... Dr Martin Filmer, SA expert... but he's deceased now, so won't be much help! Still, out of interest, I googled a bit, and quite quickly found a site called Arachnoboards which seems to fit your bill. HTH!
All I have to beg of you is not to post pics of spiders without a BIG warning in the topic Im so scared of spiders that I cant even look at images. :S
@azurekoi - Im a girl Im allowed to have a fear of things with 8 legs ok! I actually dont mind bugs and slimy snails and worms, but if I see a spider I freak out. As in panic attack freaking out - my LPS had a laugh at me a few months back since they had a tarantula in a glass tank at the counter. I went past it to get frozen foods, realised what was in the tank and screamed and ran to the back of the shop. They couldnt stop laughing and I couldnt get my frozen goodies!
How can you be so scared??? Number 13 to 18 is coming this week... and the biggest i have is old Skeleton... But he is not the oldest scary enough... He is about 13cm now... :-D (PS: HE BITES!!!) (Accanthoscurria geniculata) Giant White Knee... AWESOME SPIDER!!!
heheh I wish i knew what gave me this fear, but Ive always been afraid of them, snakes is second on the list, but for that I blame an old school friend - did a sleep over at her uncles farm - he collected various snakes - back then I couldnt say no to a dare and we slept that night in the snake room - since then no way, na ah I hate them. But at least i can look at images. My phobia with spiders was so bad I couldnt play games with spiders in it unless I had my brother do the sections that had spiders in. At least I can cope with those spiders now but real spiders still scare me silly. And I honestly cant even look at images of them.
i used to be like that terrified of spiders and not a fan of snakes but when you got a lil brother you learn to get over it lol. dont mind either now as long as they leave me alone and i'll leave them alone. now my bf has a 2.5m burmese python which i am afraid of, his names Angus lol
Coolios - communal web spiders.... saw those up near the Botswana borders once....like a 2m square web with Thousands on them
Nope not clicking dodgy links! Hahahaha At least your not threatening to send me a box full of spiders like a friend of mine did (to this day i will not open packages that i didnt order myself )
Thinking of getting a Haplopelma lividum (cobalt Blue Tarantula) google it Awsome little critter !!!!!!!!! wait let me refraise that .... Awsome critter!!!
Hahaha... For me on the other hand sleeping in the same room as the spiders and snakes just makes me want more of them... Even if i know that the devil nescaped and is lurking around in my room... But that only happened once... Luckily... ;-) If you really want to get over your fear of spiders you could always come and visit me... I got my 1 friend who was a arachnophobic to keep tarantulas... So anything is possible... And being a girl is no excuse to be scared of them... I have 2 friend that are keeping tarantulas and both of them are loving it... Just saying...
Only problem with Haplopelma lividium is that it is nocturnal... So if you want to see it you would have to get red lights and stuff because it only comes out of its burrow at night time... And it is also ver VERY VERY AGRESSIVE!!! So my advice is to start with something else that is not that aggressive and not fast... Fast ones are very difficult to catch if they escape... Try something like the Brachypelma or the Grammastolla genera... They are the best to start with... And then you can see what it is like... And never listen to anyone if he/she tells you that Ndandu chromatis is a good starter species... It is as agressive as hell and it is also a very fast bugger... Thus VERY BAD BEGIN... I Hope this helps... If you want more info just ask.... :-D
Looking at the Mexican Red Knee and Mexican fire leg i have red that the fire leg is not for handeling
I took some photos for you... But just so you know... Skeleton (Accanthoscuria geniculata) is VERY VERY VERY MAD NOW!!! Brachypelma smithi (Mexican Red Knee) Lasiodora parahybana (Salmon pink Birdeater) Ndandu Chromatis (Brazilian Red and White) Accanthoscurria geniculata (Giant White Knee) SKELETON!!! What a LEGEND!!! I Hope these few help... Just dont get any of the last 3 because you need to know what you are doing otherwise you will get bit... NOT COOL!!! And to think what it is like being bit think of it like this: A bee sting... That is admitted with two pencils... EINA!!!
