New Videos on YouTube

Hi Guys!

This past week was super busy, everything that has been going on at work has completely drained me of energy.

But I managed to get two new videos out on YouTube.

Friday Feeding Frenzy

This is the first one: Friday Feeding Frenzy - Tarantulas Vs. Prey

I managed to capture a few tarantulas in this video that I don´t get to see that often :D

I also had to resort to some unconventional feeding tricks to get the food to the spiders since they refused to leave the lid to their enclosures.

Requested Video - Tomato Frog

And here we have the second one: Requested Video - Tomato Frog

I asked you guys in Friday video if there was a special animal that you would love to see in an upcoming video, I got a lot of good suggestions and there will be more of these videos coming up shortly.

I hope you enjoyed these videos :D

Take Care!

Theraphosa stirmi

So here she is guys :D

My beautiful T. stirmi, this picture where taken right after she was done molting.
Well maybe an hour after, I didn't want to disturb her to quickly.

But now she has started to stretch her legs a bit more and she´s huge, I really need to go out and get another "home" for her.
But I won´t rehouse her just yet, I will let her harden back up a bit before I attempt to move her.

I absolutely love the look of the T. stirmi, she almost look like she was made out of velvet, but don´t let that fool you, the urticating hairs from these guys are said to be absolutely horrible.
She has never flicked hairs at me and I always make sure to wear rubber gloves whenever I need to do maintenance on her enclosure, so I can´t speak from personal experience (thankfully)

Well this was all that I had to show you for this time.
Tomorrow I´m going to start recording the next Feeding Video that will be uploaded on YouTube on Friday.
I hope to see you guys then :D

Take Care!

New YouTube Video

So here it is, my latest uploaded video on YouTube.
I try to post a feeding video every Friday.
Sometimes they are a bit shorter than I would have liked for them to be, but that´s the thing about keeping tarantulas, sometimes they want to eat and sometimes they wont.

Many of my tarantulas has been in pre-molt/molted over the past couple of months.
So hopefully the videos will be a bit more interesting in the future :D

I will leave a link here if you feel like checking it out - Friday Feeding Frenzy


What else is new?
Oh yeah, my Theraphosa stirmi finally molted last night :D
As soon as she´s done with her post-molt stretching I will snap a few photos of her and update you guys on how she´s doing.
But for now everything looks really good, and she´s massive :D


So I think that was all for now.

Take care guys, talk to you soon again! :D

Re-Housing Day

Hi Guys!

So today I finally got around to doing a few rehousings, I bought a couple of new enclosures at the last Expo in December.

But due to a lot of changes at work and such I haven't really had the time to rehouse the animals until now.

The first ones to get a new home were my two Heterometrus petersii scorpions.

They are still pretty small, but I thought that a little more space wouldn't harm them :)

They are going to get a nice glass enclosure when they are bigger, but for now they got upgraded to a bigger "Bra Plast" box.

So here you can see a bit of their old home on the left and the new "Bra Plast" container on the right.

It´s about twice the size of their old home :)

And here you can see one of them in the new home, they really seem to enjoy it.

They do live together, at first when I got them I thought about separating them but they seem to love each others company so I decided to let them live together.

I suspect that one is a male and one is a female, it´s pretty hard to tell when they are this small.

But the one I suspect to be a male, constantly guards the female, it´s really cute :)

And now onto a tarantula.

My Poecilothera regalis finally got a new enclosure, I´m always a bit nervous when it comes to rehouse the fast moving old worlds.

But as it turned out, I worried over nothing.

This was probably one of the easiest rehousings ever :)

I absolutely love my P. regalis, she´s such a sweet tarantula.

She never gives me any threat postures, strikes or run around like crazy.

So here´s the new enclosure, I think it turned out pretty nice.

But most importantly the tarantula really seem to enjoy it :)

And here we have a closer look at the gorgeous P. regalis.

It´s still far from fully grown, but to me it´s huge compare to how tiny it was when I got it :)

The P. regalis is the first Poecilothera I ever got, and it will always be my favorite Pokie :D

I also rehoused my Monocentropus balfouri communal, but they will get their own post as soon as I can get a few pictures of them in their new home.

But all six of them are still alive and doing just fine, at least two of them had molted and that´s always a good sign.

It´s going to be really fun to watch them grow :D

So this was all for this time.

Tomorrow it´s time to get another feeding video posted on Youtube.

Talk to you then!

Take Care Guys!

Spider Web

Spider Web

If you keep tarantulas yourself then you are no stranger to "spider web".

But maybe some of you keep other animals or maybe you are just interested in animals in general, so I though I could make this post for you :)

One of the things that always fascinated me with spiders and tarantulas are their webs, now tarantulas won´t make the same kind of webs like orb weaver spider does, but I still think it´s pretty cool how they can produce silk.

Some tarantulas will completely web up their homes, while others will only lay a thin layer of silk on the ground.

Brachypelma boehmei

On the picture above you can see my Brachypelma boehmei, this is a terrestrial species of tarantula which means that they spend most of their time on the ground.

This species is not a heavy webbing species, when I took this picture I had just given him food and he use his web to tangle up his prey and that way make it easier for him to control it.

You can also see that he has a little bald spot on his abdomen.

New World tarantulas has something that is called urticating hairs that they use as a defense system, I will go into that a bit more in another post.

But when they feel threatened they can use their back legs to flick off hairs at their "enemy".

They can also use their urticating hairs to create a safe perimeter when they are close to a molt. 

Pterinochilus murinus UMV

Now, on this picture you can see one of my Pterinochilus murinus species.

The P. murinus build amazing "webcastles" in their enclosures, the web is used to sense when prey is near.

The P. murinus often dig tunnels under the surface and when a prey lands in their net they will instantly feel the web moving and shot out from their hide.

It´s absolutely amazing to watch them when they build their nets.

There are plenty of species that build gorgeous webs and if you are thinking about getting your own tarantula and want one that webs a lot, the Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens is a great species.

The P. murinus is gorgeous but keep in mind that it´s a fast moving Old World species which means that their venom is a lot more potent than the New World species.

But we will get into that a bit more in a future post as well.

For now I just wanted to share with you my fascination with spider web :D

Take Care Guys!

My Lasiodorides striatus molted :D

Hi Guys!

If you have seen my videos from the latest Reptile/Exotic Animal Expo, then you know that I got a beautiful Lasiodorides striatus as a freebie from Frank.

I haven´t been able to show her off before since she was in pre-molt when I got her.

But now she has, I can´t say finally molted since I haven´t had her for that long, but anyway she has molted and I can finally show her off :D

So here she is:

Isn't she just gorgeous?!

I've wanted one of these guys ever since the first time I saw a photo of them, but this one is the first I have actually seen in real life.

This one is still just a juvenile and the colors will be even more stunning as it grows.

I don´t know if it´s a male of a female yet, I´m gonna check the molt later today.

Not that it matters to me, I love the male tarantulas just as much as the females :D

So I think that was all for this time, if I can tell by the molt if it´s a male or a female I will of course update you guys later on with that.

Until then:

Take Care Guys!!

Feeding & Rehousing My Avicularia

Hi Guys!

So it was finally time to rehouse my Avicularia (mature male) into a larger home, I rehoused him a couple of days ago and now it was time to feed him for the first time in his new home :)

I usually give my tarantulas a couple of days in a new home before I try and feed them, just to let them settle down a bit before I disturb them.

This particular tarantula is the sweetest ever, he is so easy to deal with.

I posted a video on my YouTube channel of me rehousing him and giving him food, so if you want to see more of him feel free to check out this video - YouTube