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<blockquote data-quote="Stan Schultz" data-source="post: 145000" data-attributes="member: 28438"><p>This topic has been hotly debated on the various forums almost since internet forums first started. My own personal bias is that you need to decide whether you're in the hobby because you enjoy keeping tarantulas, or because you enjoy keeping plants. And this is decidedly true if you're a relative newbie. (See my comments in the next paragraph.) Each of these groups of living organisms pose enough challenges by themselves to occupy you for quite a while (over 50 years in my case!). Stacking the two of them together can prove to be the downfall of both hobbies and cost you a mint in the process.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now here we have a problem because you seem to be contradicting yourself. Partly out of modesty and partly out of an almost childlike fascination with tarantulas, I often adopt the avatar of the "newbie." But realistically, once you've been able to keep even one of these phenomenal creatures for 8 years, you're hardly a newbie. Would you care to unravel what you meant here?</p><p></p><p>Re: Chilean rose tarantulas. First, read <a href="http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/roses.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Care and Husbandry of the Chilean Rose Tarantula</span></strong></a>. Then back up the website tree a few branches and start reading at <a href="http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/spiders.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Spiders, Calgary</span></strong></a>. Just don't try to read the whole website in one sitting. Doing so has been known to cause severe emotional and cognitive problems. (Can you imagine trying to <strong>WRITE</strong> all that?) At first, just go through one or two webpages at a time, scanning them for things that interest or apply to you. Eventually you will read them all, but without the concomitant mental issues.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Please read <a href="http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/Stress.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Stress? You Wanna Know About Stress?</span></strong></a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You hit it right on the head there, my friend. In nature, tarantulas do not normally or often, directly interact with plants except as some sort of physical object or structure that accidentally occupies the spider's immediate surroundings. Literally millions of tarantulas have lived years, even decades in cages without plants, and don't seem to have suffered for it. And their keepers had a lot fewer problems caring for them too.</p><p></p><p>Another little tip: Read <a href="http://arachnoboards.com/threads/tarantula-ping-pong.216602/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">Tarantula Ping Pong</span></strong></a>. This is loads more fun than just sitting there, watching a plant rot!</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your little 8-legged enigma!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stan Schultz, post: 145000, member: 28438"] This topic has been hotly debated on the various forums almost since internet forums first started. My own personal bias is that you need to decide whether you're in the hobby because you enjoy keeping tarantulas, or because you enjoy keeping plants. And this is decidedly true if you're a relative newbie. (See my comments in the next paragraph.) Each of these groups of living organisms pose enough challenges by themselves to occupy you for quite a while (over 50 years in my case!). Stacking the two of them together can prove to be the downfall of both hobbies and cost you a mint in the process. Now here we have a problem because you seem to be contradicting yourself. Partly out of modesty and partly out of an almost childlike fascination with tarantulas, I often adopt the avatar of the "newbie." But realistically, once you've been able to keep even one of these phenomenal creatures for 8 years, you're hardly a newbie. Would you care to unravel what you meant here? Re: Chilean rose tarantulas. First, read [url=http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/roses.html][B][COLOR=#0000ff]Care and Husbandry of the Chilean Rose Tarantula[/COLOR][/B][/url]. Then back up the website tree a few branches and start reading at [url=http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/spiders.html][B][COLOR=#0000ff]Spiders, Calgary[/COLOR][/B][/url]. Just don't try to read the whole website in one sitting. Doing so has been known to cause severe emotional and cognitive problems. (Can you imagine trying to [b]WRITE[/b] all that?) At first, just go through one or two webpages at a time, scanning them for things that interest or apply to you. Eventually you will read them all, but without the concomitant mental issues. Please read [url=http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/Stress.html][B][COLOR=#0000ff]Stress? You Wanna Know About Stress?[/COLOR][/B][/url]. You hit it right on the head there, my friend. In nature, tarantulas do not normally or often, directly interact with plants except as some sort of physical object or structure that accidentally occupies the spider's immediate surroundings. Literally millions of tarantulas have lived years, even decades in cages without plants, and don't seem to have suffered for it. And their keepers had a lot fewer problems caring for them too. Another little tip: Read [url=http://arachnoboards.com/threads/tarantula-ping-pong.216602/][B][COLOR=#0000ff]Tarantula Ping Pong[/COLOR][/B][/url]. This is loads more fun than just sitting there, watching a plant rot! Enjoy your little 8-legged enigma! [/QUOTE]
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