The Hobby Thread

[Kwacky]

Come on kwacky....pics!!!!

Of the spiders?

[Trevorking1964]

Hell ye!!

[Trevorking1964]

I hate the things, proper phobic, but I'm dancing from one foot to the other in anticipation!!
Fascinating....

[Kwacky]

I'll get some done at the weekend when it's feeding time.

[Trevorking1964]

Cool.

[Kwacky]

I managed to bounce my phone off the pavement the other day so that's being fixed.

Sadly that means I've got no new photos to share of the spiders, but I do have a couple of old ones. I'll do some next weekend once I've forked out the £110 for the phone repairs

These are all tarantulas. The first is a T stirmi, better known as the goliath bird eater.







One of the Indian tree tarantulas from the poecilotheria family, These can get up to 10 inches and some of them live in groups.



An earth tiger (loads get called this). These live in deep burrows. They're the ones you see for sale in markets as food.

[Trevorking1964]

Wow!
I'm extremely uncomfortable with spiders, proper phobic, but find them fascinating. Wouldn't want to be anywhere near them, but they are really cool.
Thanks for sharing. Cracking pics.

[Kwacky]

I used to hate spiders. When I was a teenager I bought a tarantula to get over my fear.

[Rossgo]

Kwacky has any ever escaped and given the neighbours a shock! Are they hard to look after, eg climate control etc

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[Kwacky]

I've had a few leg it. I've always found them, but not always straight away. They will look for somewhere dark so it's usually pretty easy to guess where they've gone.

Most of them are happy at usual room temps. Some need more humidity than others but that's easy to control if you have the right type of substrate.

The problems come if you want to breed them. You have to put them through temp and humidity cycles to replicate their natural environment.

[StMarks]

I managed to bounce my phone off the pavement the other day so that's being fixed.

Sadly that means I've got no new photos to share of the spiders, but I do have a couple of old ones. I'll do some next weekend once I've forked out the £110 for the phone repairs

These are all tarantulas. The first is a T stirmi, better known as the goliath bird eater.
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One of the Indian tree tarantulas from the poecilotheria family, These can get up to 10 inches and some of them live in groups.

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An earth tiger (loads get called this). These live in deep burrows. They're the ones you see for sale in markets as food.

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Something that has often crossed my mind, is just how strong are they.?
Fyi I'm basing ^ that concerned enquiry loosely based on the fact that ants can lift something like 50 times their bodyweight iirc, and spiders look to use the same sort of bio-engineering but those are substantially bigger than ants.!

[Kwacky]

Tarantulas are not strong. They don't need to be. They're pretty fast, they have strong venom and some have uricating hairs as part of their defence. They don't build and they usually feed at the place where they take the prey, so they've not developed strength.

[StMarks]

Tarantulas are not strong. They don't need to be. They're pretty fast, they have strong venom and some have uricating hairs as part of their defence. They don't build and they usually feed at the place where they take the prey, so they've not developed strength.

Thank heavens for small mercies mate.
I had a mental image of only being able to retain them if they acquiesced, and not being able to "close the lid" against a determined arachnid.

[Rossgo]

I've had a few leg it. I've always found them, but not always straight away. They will look for somewhere dark so it's usually pretty easy to guess where they've gone.

Most of them are happy at usual room temps. Some need more humidity than others but that's easy to control if you have the right type of substrate.

The problems come if you want to breed them. You have to put them through temp and humidity cycles to replicate their natural environment.

So I guess under the sofa, or under the stairs lol. Can we have some pics of their habitat when you get your phone back? Their webs, are they thick? Must be interesting and very involving trying to breed them then

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[Kwacky]

Will do

[D41]

They give me the heebie-jeebies.

[kiwikrasher]

I reckon they are quite fascinating, I’m not scared of spiders but I don’t trust the poison little f**kers and am respectful of their potential. You have to check your shoes every time you put them on here in Aussie and definitely don’t left shoes outside at all.

[Monty]

[D6Nutz]

I reckon they are quite fascinating, I’m not scared of spiders but I don’t trust the poison little f**kers and am respectful of their potential. You have to check your shoes every time you put them on here in Aussie and definitely don’t left shoes outside at all.

This was a posted by someone I know who is current in Oz.. (open the pic and look at the size of the web )

Cheers for the pics kwacky, my daughter is into spiders at the moment (for some odd reason) and liked them.

[kiwikrasher]

Yeah, used to hit big ones like that when I did a fair bit of mountain bike riding. If your up early you can sometimes see webs like that from road signs and all the way to the ground.