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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 41389" data-attributes="member: 3524">- What do you do if an unsexed iheringi turns out to be a male?  Can you send him out on breeding loan?  You'd have no more iheringi and may or may not get any slings out of it.  It would be much better to start with a sexed female.- What's your experience with OW arboreals?  They're advanced species.  Have you read bite reports to know what could potentially happen to you if bitten?  Emergency rooms in the middle of the night aren't a lot of fun.  People should work their way up in stages with species and build a foundation of experience.  Are there other people or cats and dogs in your house?  An escaped spider drags them into this. - 'Murinus' as in 'P' or 'E'?  Both are fast and feisty, and tend to hidden most of the time.  Definitely not for beginners. - You said you wanted some that are 'rare and different' and then you list rosea and (P) murinus as candidates?  They're cheap and plentiful.  Back to the drawing board. - If I was you, I'd be looking at some of the big South American/Caribbean terrestrials, less common species in Pamphobeteus, Phormictopus, Acanthoscurria, Lasiodora, Xenesthis, & Sericopelma.  They're great eaters and fast growing.</blockquote>