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Got my First slings today .. Grammostola pulchripes Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula .. Bred by a friend .. smaller then I imagined they can fir on a dime ..
Yes it is said and no this is actually new the list was update maybe a month ago before that there where no legal species of inverts not even feeder species .. Members of Maine Herpetological society have been very active in fighting for new species to be add and fighting against prohibitive...
http://www.maine.gov/ifw/wildlife/human/captivity.html
this is the list of species we are allowed to keep .. all species must be captive breed .... at the bottom of the pages are links .. if anything is listed on these link they are restricted .. so Cities, Lacyact ect ect...
I surely don't .. it is a debate I have read on a lot of pages .. along with the notion they have been crossed and there are a lot of hybrids out there ..
I was just looking at the unrestricted list again .. Grammastola porteri is not on the list we have Grammastola Rosea, Grammostola pulchra and Grammostola pulchripes that we can keep.. I have been reading some debate that Porteri and Rosea are just different color forms of the same species...
sounds good .. I will be keeping some for myself and selling some at our annual reptile expo .. I will start with 25 but may hit you up to see if you have any left ..
its all about having connections as to Husbandry skills that is common sense and lots of research .. I am trying to plan a head for winter .. it gets mighty cold here and we often lose power ..
really .. I just bought 25 Pulchra slings for 5.00 each free shipping .. I planned to sell the ones I don't want for 20.00 at the reptile expo next month ..
Metalman .. Maine is one of the worse state we have an unrestricted list of what we can have with out permits .. 10 pages of it is fish the other 7 pages are everything else .. you can get permits if your lucky for some species but the requirements make it not worth the doing ..
Yes .. its only 3 species but better then none .. what we can now keep are Grammostola pulchra Brazilian Black Tarantula, Grammostola pulchripes Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula and Grammostola rosea Chilean Rose Tarantula. I have found The Golden knee and have a bunch of spiderlings coming next...
WE Finally got 3 legal species in Maine, Been wanting to keep and Breed Tarantulas for over 30 years .. I have been reading and researching since my interest first peeked .. But I am sure I will have lots of question in the near future ..