Recent content by Eighth Eye Blind

That really is a fine looking specimen you have! Thanks for sharing the pic and vid. FYI, I have an A. avicularia that's now gone seven months without eating. I toss her a cricket once a week but she just turns her nose up at it. Nevertheless, she seems happy and healthy just hanging out in her...

I hate to tell you this, but you joined the site and posted for the first time today in response to a thread that's six years old. The spider in that picture is long dead by now. Welcome to the forum, though! BTW, be wary of folks offering up _Phoneutria_. (Note that I'm not saying that Kaz...

I've lost plenty of non-decapitated meal worms in enclosures and I've never had any of them mature into beetles. I use 100% coco coir as substrate and I don't think there's enough nutritional value in coir to allow them to pupate and morph. They starve before they mature. I suppose it could...

This is the answer, at least for terrestrial and fossorial species. I'm actually a research biologist and I build environmentally controlled enclosures for our lab species all the time. It's fine for your T's to be in a room with radiant heating so long as they're not directly exposed to it...

I've heard that touching a Psalmopoeus sac with the little finger of your left hand is supposed to bring good luck. Have you ever tried it? :D

For those of you who worry about their T's not eating, know that my A. avicularia has now gone seven months without a meal. I know that's probably not a world record for a T, but it's the longest I've had one turn up their nose at a cricket. She's still plump and happy as far as I can tell...

You folks realize that the OP was nearly three years ago, right? Some of you might own one of those slings as a young adult now!

There have been multiple species of spider living communally in my basement for decades now. Maybe not 100,000+ individuals, but there's a good 20-30 in just one corner. I should have published about it!

I also repeatedly watched this thing as a kid. My mom wouldn't let me go see it in a theater (wow was parenting different back then) but I was glued to the set every time it came on late-night TV. Total classic of schlock cinema. I think Bug and Starship Troopers have single-handedly kept the...

I'm thinking maybe Hephaestus?

This is Rosalind. She's a cold-hearted T. Whenever I give her a dubia she doesn't immediately eat it. Instead, she just runs over and puts a foot on top of it. This literally paralyzes the poor roach with fear. She'll then stand there like that for three or four hours just letting the roach...

I've got a G pulchra juvi who hasn't moved a grain of loose coir since I got her. I think she expects me to dig a burrow for her. Laziest T that I ever saw.

I do have one T that I keep on my desk who freaks out when I play music on the desktop speakers. It might just be that she doesn't like my preference for Bowie and King Crimson and would rather that I switched to Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter. To hell with that, though. She'll just have to...

There's evolutionary adaptation, and then there's THIS: The Spider-Tailed Horned Viper Just make sure that the enclosure has a secure lid!

Well it's not like you can rush him to spider ER and have them conduct emergency surgery. Whatever's done is done . . . and I strongly suspect that nothing bad has happened so you might as well relax. Some T's love to chew things up. I have one that keeps sticking a fang through a hole in her...