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I have a sub-adult female vagans... she's a pain in my ass!. They're a terrestrial species so are believed to spend they're time grounded but mine is constantly climbing around her 30cm-cubed enclosure looking for a way out. They're not a fossorial species (burrower) and mine never ever uses her...

Same as the others, I just use a syringe with a blunt-tipped needle on the end, through a vent hole to save startling the T. The bowl may be soiled with substrate a bit but they don't find pristine water in the wild and they still survived for millions of years. Tbh if pristine water was so...

Here's my input: In regards to handling, i'm neither for nor against. Personally, i've kept T's for only 2 ½ years and handled my G Pulchripes twice in that time, the other 10 I have are either too skittish, too defensive or too venomous to go near with my hands without risk of hairs or a nasty...

There is a always a line drawn between the for and against of touching/ handling tarantulas.... each to their own. I don't ever interrupt any of mine unless its for feeding or maintenance/ rehousing, they're purely display animals (properly cared for of course). As far as I understand it, they...

Always found this weird. In the U.K. We don't carry around our birth certs and not many of us carry our driving licences, all we have is debit/credit cards and 'store' cards. If police want to know anything they just get the name and cross-reference it with the PNC (police national computer'...

Dammit, don't have that Sunday off work, booked all my holidays and specifically book the 20th for the BTS show. I will see if they will let me change holiday days around a bit [emoji16] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As the tread title states really. Anybody going to the British Tarantula Society Expo on Sunday 20th May at the Warwick Exhibition Centre in Leamington Spa?. I'm going to hopefully pick up some new T's to add to my tiny collection and maybe some other inverts if any catch my eye. I did read that...

My vittata moulted a few days ago, hasn't regrown any of her missing leg though ☹️, feel I'm gonna have to make her a disabled badge. She will need to be moved to a larger enclosure after her next moult so as I have loads of acrylic shop display things, I've decided to get the proverbial ball...

Did he ship your glass enclosures then because the Ts&Cs, namely 3&4 say otherwise? [emoji53]. That is a concern when ordering from abroad with live animals or glass. We know even British mail companies are hap-handed and careless with parcels so glass from another country could be tricky, along...

Oh wow, I was not aware of this website and the prices are insanely cheap. I assume that's CM of course?!. £40 to courier it all?! [emoji15] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

lol same, every time I feed one of my Ts, the prey goes straight for the most awkward and out-of-the-way place in the enclosure and if it isn't eaten, it's really hard to retrieve. Especially a jumping cricket that has an abhorrence to being caught. Sometimes they will disappear without any...

The metal grill is 2mm thick with 3mm holes so she should be good [emoji1303]. My only concern is if she manages to fit a leg through one of the holes and get it stuck?!... Glass arboreal enclosures that are big enough are few and far between in the U.K. And if one is available like an exoterra...

This is the grill I'm gonna be using in the top of the custom enclosure Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

9"?!............... I thought vittatas reached 7"?!. Either way, an adequately sized candle lantern will be used when she outgrows this one and for the proceeding few moults, after that she will be housed in her final enclosure which I've decided won't be a candle lantern. I'm designing a full...

I can't imagine why they refuse mealworms, it's still food and I thought Ts would take anything they can sink their fangs into. I have the unfortunate task of dropping and praying cus my vittata isn't a webber, they just makes random clusters of silk around the place. She is very active ATM and...