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<blockquote data-quote="Phil" data-source="post: 117140" data-attributes="member: 4151"><p>I used to keep and breed tropical fish. I spent most of my time in a local pet shop as I used to supply fish to the owner and we became good friends. My (first) wife would often just ring him and tell him when I needed to come home for dinner....lol</p><p>This was about 25 years ago and he then started to branch out into the "exotics" (snakes, lizards, geckos and spiders). I was never really interested with the other exotics but spiders really caught my attention. especially when a makeshift partition (polystyrene tile) he had used to separate 2 Tatntulas had an epic fail one day and 2 became 1. A dessert blond won that particular battle against a rose hair.</p><p>After that I was hooked (just like a MM....haha) and got my first T....a Brachypelma Smithi*</p><p>The pet shop owner and I also ran a charity for injured animals and did a number of creepy crawly roadshows with snakes and spiders etc for local schools and the like. Most of the time the kids were ok but the teachers were a wreck....although we did like to "teach Miss" a lesson or two. </p><p>various years passed, children came along as did wife number 2 and the collection. went up and down but no more than about 6 or 7 at any given time. Wife #2 decided she wanted a "new Phil" and so this left me completely free to extend my hobby so in the last 3 or 4 years although I have kept Ts for over 20 years, I now have 127 and I now have an impressive erection in the garden.... a purpose built "spider house" in which I hope to have many more and fulfil an ambition of breeding hopefully.</p><p></p><p>*I dont care what the scientists say...to me a smithi will ALWAYS be a smithi! (end of)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phil, post: 117140, member: 4151"] I used to keep and breed tropical fish. I spent most of my time in a local pet shop as I used to supply fish to the owner and we became good friends. My (first) wife would often just ring him and tell him when I needed to come home for dinner....lol This was about 25 years ago and he then started to branch out into the "exotics" (snakes, lizards, geckos and spiders). I was never really interested with the other exotics but spiders really caught my attention. especially when a makeshift partition (polystyrene tile) he had used to separate 2 Tatntulas had an epic fail one day and 2 became 1. A dessert blond won that particular battle against a rose hair. After that I was hooked (just like a MM....haha) and got my first T....a Brachypelma Smithi* The pet shop owner and I also ran a charity for injured animals and did a number of creepy crawly roadshows with snakes and spiders etc for local schools and the like. Most of the time the kids were ok but the teachers were a wreck....although we did like to "teach Miss" a lesson or two. various years passed, children came along as did wife number 2 and the collection. went up and down but no more than about 6 or 7 at any given time. Wife #2 decided she wanted a "new Phil" and so this left me completely free to extend my hobby so in the last 3 or 4 years although I have kept Ts for over 20 years, I now have 127 and I now have an impressive erection in the garden.... a purpose built "spider house" in which I hope to have many more and fulfil an ambition of breeding hopefully. *I dont care what the scientists say...to me a smithi will ALWAYS be a smithi! (end of) [/QUOTE]
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