Thread: Pets

Actually none of the tarantulas are hybrids or color phases. They are exactly as found in nature. Cross breeding tarantulas is frowned on very strongly in the tarantula keeping community. There are over 800 species of tarantulas that vary in color, size, behavior, temperament, toxicity, etc. These are but a very few of the species available in the current trade. Keeping and breeding tarantulas is snowballing as a hobby.

Originally Posted by gandrw

Ogershok those tarantulas are beautifully collard are they a type of melanistic hybrid. I would't personally want one but I sure can appreciate the hours of breeding that must have taken to get those collars.

Originally Posted by Ogershok

Actually none of the tarantulas are hybrids or color phases. They are exactly as found in nature. Cross breeding tarantulas is frowned on very strongly in the tarantula keeping community. There are over 800 species of tarantulas that vary in color, size, behavior, temperament, toxicity, etc. These are but a very few of the species available in the current trade. Keeping and breeding tarantulas is snowballing as a hobby.

Wow I didn't know there where that many kinds of tarantulas in nature I just assumed there where a few varieties and the pet triad expanded on that.
It is very common and usually desirable in the Leopard geckoes to have designer breed lizards that look very different from natural ones. We even have a Giant albino designer patterned female still from when my wife bread them.

I saw a picture of a tarantula that had Dark Blueish hare on its legs and was quite intrigued by it. Now thinking about that being natural makes it even more intriguing. Just out of curiosity what size terrarium do you keep them in
( If thats the right term for there enclosure ) do you breed them or just keep them as pets.

Originally Posted by gandrw

Just out of curiosity what size terrarium do you keep them in
( If thats the right term for there enclosure ) do you breed them or just keep them as pets.

I keep them in 2 to 5 gal terraria. I'm involved in several cooperative breeding projects with other keepers.

This is Bingo. He also answers to "Dude" or the smell of pizza, bacon, cheese, treats, steak, chicken, ham, eggs, cookies, tortilla chips and spicy salsa, Mr. Softee ice cream, Wild Cherry Pepsi, pancakes, sausage, warm Italian bread or the crunching of Flav-R-Ice, particularly blue, red and green.

Any Bird lovers out there. I have wanted one for a long time. We had a Yellow Canary when I was very young and I loved listening to it. We also had Chickens, Ducks and Geese and I'd like to get some bantam chickens. But for a pet bird I really want a Black Capped Caique, Maybe when my daughter is a little older we can gang up on my wife and she will cave in.