Are you a Tarantula hobbyist? If so, we invite you to join our community! Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your pets and enclosures and chat with other Tarantula enthusiasts. Sign up today!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="SasyStace" data-source="post: 64380" data-attributes="member: 4083">I know a few people who keep M. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=tarantula+balfouri&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=940&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI3vnhhajKAhVEmZQKHVjWDG8QsAQIGw" target="_blank">balfouri</a> together however these are keepers that have decades in the hobby I am talking over 20 years and both of these keepers have over 300+ T's a piece it's not so much a hobby anymore and more of a business.  The thing about the internet is that just like an email it's void of emotion so the reader takes away what they want from it.  If the reader is already a defensive, insecure person they tend to jump all over the forum members offering help.  Frankly it always bothers me when someone who knows nothing about  T's, snakes, etc decides they are going to jump into the hobby and goes balls to the wall and gets several of them with no knowledge, personally there is nothing more stressful than trying to figure out if you've set it all up correctly.   I have seen Avic communals go cannibalistic every single time- it happens on about the 4th instar.  This subject has come up many times so I felt I should add the link to the video [MEDIA=youtube]kC_S3gmeeI4[/MEDIA]</blockquote>