Sometimes there is too much information absorbed too quickly. For instance, in my reading of "sling care", I interpreted my Grammostola pulchripes [the Chaco Golden Leg's real name] behavior as "pre-molt" (what they do before shedding the old exoskeleton). Instead, it uses the bark hide and burrows below it normally. Badass hunter, probably 2nd only…
Tarantula Keeper’s Journal Entry 1: History
So the last week I've been busy. It seems that a new hobby always requires an inordinate amount of time at the outset before settling down. I am now the proud owner of four Tarantulas. Two immature adults that I rescued from a Petco and two spiderlings (slings) that were mail ordered from Swift's Invertebrates…
So I’m going to be a pet owner at last…
So after some research, I'm not getting a Tarantula. I'm getting TWO tarantulas and I'm seriously jazzed. All my life I have been an "Arachna-head", probably due to an utter love affair with Charlotte's Web when I was young. Wilbur the pig? Meh. (baconnnn...mmmmm.) It was Charlotte who caught my attention, and never fully released…