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<blockquote data-quote="Casey K." data-source="post: 140936" data-attributes="member: 1090"><p>My experience with pet stores (so far) is that they haven't the slightest clue on how to care for tarantulas. I went to a pet store that had a male Theraphosa stirmi for sale. Its abdomen was about the size of 2 small marbles and the abdomen was shriveled. Mind you, this tarantula had a leg span of about 7". I asked them (not mentioning a word of what i do) how they care for the animal. They said they feed it 1-2 medium size crickets a week and that it needs a heat lamp to survive. At this point I am just dying to blurt it out but I hold it in for a few more minutes.....there was a water dish in there with nothing but a dry sponge in it that had black mildew on it. The setup had sand in it (which would be ok if it was wet sand because sand holds moisture fairly well). After observing this spiders environment and obtaining information from the pet store sales associate I proceeded to ask for the manager. I asked them where they get their information on care about animals and they said a guy that works there knows all about animals (with no valid sources followed)....so i asked to speak to this man and they said he was off that day (lucky him). I went all to hell on the sales associate and the manager and asked to speak to the "man' that had so much experience with animals when he came back in and I left my #. I was pretty heated. Long story short, that stirmi and the other 4 tarantulas they had came home with me. I only go to pet stores now to buy the spiders I see. It was very sad. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Casey K., post: 140936, member: 1090"] My experience with pet stores (so far) is that they haven't the slightest clue on how to care for tarantulas. I went to a pet store that had a male Theraphosa stirmi for sale. Its abdomen was about the size of 2 small marbles and the abdomen was shriveled. Mind you, this tarantula had a leg span of about 7". I asked them (not mentioning a word of what i do) how they care for the animal. They said they feed it 1-2 medium size crickets a week and that it needs a heat lamp to survive. At this point I am just dying to blurt it out but I hold it in for a few more minutes.....there was a water dish in there with nothing but a dry sponge in it that had black mildew on it. The setup had sand in it (which would be ok if it was wet sand because sand holds moisture fairly well). After observing this spiders environment and obtaining information from the pet store sales associate I proceeded to ask for the manager. I asked them where they get their information on care about animals and they said a guy that works there knows all about animals (with no valid sources followed)....so i asked to speak to this man and they said he was off that day (lucky him). I went all to hell on the sales associate and the manager and asked to speak to the "man' that had so much experience with animals when he came back in and I left my #. I was pretty heated. Long story short, that stirmi and the other 4 tarantulas they had came home with me. I only go to pet stores now to buy the spiders I see. It was very sad. :( [/QUOTE]
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