This would have been a "tarantula bits" post, except I liked the title, so hey. Last night my Brachypelma smithi, a purchase from a local Petco, molted, and Tom Moran posted up a Grammostola iheringi update where the molt had just occurred with one of his 8-legged cats. SYNCRONICITY! heh heh. I had photo-documented the process…
Observing a tiny little mind do big things
Observations. Obvious: Tarantulas sit still a lot between motion. Not as obvious: Watching them build things, I'm of the opinion that they are working around the small limitations of their brains. As a former IT guy, I understand what caching of data and swapping is, and when a cpu is memory constrained, pauses will occur…
Tarantula roundup 9-9-2015
So this post will show all of my kids at this particular time. I'm also using this to test the gallery feature of wordpress, and what better way than to show off the menagerie? At this point we have fifteen in the gang. I am most definitely going to add a few more to the…