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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 18:12:11

awwww I'd love to have a babboon just to experience it, but I'm not 100% confident with my pokie, even though she is quite docile and prefers to hide away and has not once tried to charge and attack me, but that day could come, so I remain cautious! lol
yeah my T.Ockerti just moulted again :) she's about an inch big now! hahaha
I say she for all of them! lol
she reared up in a threat display before her shed, about 3weeks ago! I was well impressed with her! my first threat display and not from a pokie! hahaha
yeah I love my baby A.Chalcodes, she's very very sweet, a little skittish at times (and she is a she from ventrical sexing so 95% a she lol) she's a juvie and they are so slow growing and have very long life spans! they can take 10 years to mature from spiderling! so I know that she will be one I enjoy for many years as the females can live 20+ years :D
they have sling T.Ockerti's for sale at TSS :)
where I got mine from! it was 2-3 cm when I got it :)
I do love my pink toe, I can rub her back legs and she loves it :)
and my giant white knee was the first sling I got and she's doing so well!!! :D fast growers! lol
I can go on about spiders all day :) lol!
and yeah, we kinda hijacked the thread! lol
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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 18:13:44

you had a metallica!!!!
Omg they are so badly sought after!!!
only just read that after I re read your list!! lol
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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 18:31:22

I think I forgot my big bend gold as well lol
I'm so bad! my poor babies! lol
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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 18:33:15

Yeah, baboons are on another level aggression and speed wise. Well worth having though. And you are very lucky to have a docile Pokie, mine all wanted to kill me, especially my Striata.

I also said she for all of mine, just as i do for my unsexed snakes. It was more wishful thinking than anything else i think.

I bet the threat from the big bad inch long spider put the fear of god into you! You were so close to losing your life! :P

I am certainly going to have to have a look on TSS or VC's site at some point, i just need to work out which species will be on my must haves list again! I think i will probably limit it to 10 at the most this time as i really do want to focus on snakes for the time being.

Yes, i did have a Metallica. It was a little lucky that i found it to be honest. It was the last Pokie i bought from the list above so clearly i knew quite a lot about them, although i am glad that the shop i bought it from did not. It was a reptile/exotics shop that was just starting to get spiders into stock, they had it in a terrestrial setup with substrate designed for a burrowing spider. On the sign next to the enclosure it was listed as an 'ornamental blue' and was i think priced at �15. It was just a juvenile when i picked it up and i am sure you can understand why i did!

It was probably the most beautiful spider i ever owned and it would be the first spider i would put back on my must have list.

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hillzi
The Lost boy.

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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 18:45:53

Tarantula's..

wierd people.

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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 18:56:56

Shuddit you! :P

They are great creatures really.

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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 19:12:26

yeah they are :) they all have their own tarantuality lol
and they are very rewarding, you just don't know what it's like to own and care so much for one till you do :)
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kizzig
Yearling

United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 19:16:07

quote:
Originally posted by MissyBats

here's a link:
http://giantspiders.com/ailments.html
2nd section on the page has similar
:(
xxx

Thanks for the link MissyBats. Had a good read and unfortunately think it's just due to his old age... He had his Ultimate moult around 2 1/2 years ago so he's done rather well!

We've read somewhere that a post ultimate moult is rather rare, and usually leaves the spider either deformed, with missing appendages or commonly death...

Done so many hours of reading and chatting to people the last couple of months since he started showing signs of old age. Unfortunately we think it's a waiting game now...

Thanks for your help! We're just going to try and keep him comfortable now.

He'll always be "Daisy" to us! (Sorry mate!

)

Kizzig

Our ever growing menagerie:

1.0.0 Amel cornsnake (Ziggy)
0.1.0 Amel motley cornsnake (Kizzy)
1.0.0 Housegecko (Eric)
0.1.0 Chile Rose Tarantula (Daisy) RIP Double D, We'll miss you... xxx
1.0.0 Budgie (Oscar)
0.1.0 Cat (Sophie)
1.1.0 Red Eared Sliders (Sam 'n' Ella)
Assorted Fish - Harry, Artie, Kev and Ebi.

RIP Georgina the Housegecko

, Archie the Angelfish

(17/09/09), and Daisy the Chile Rose Tarantula

(19/11/2009)

Our Animal's Album: http://s986.photobucket.com/albums/ae347/klivingston234/

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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 19:22:18

I am really sorry that nothing can be done for your little guy, Kizzig. He has done amazingly well to live two and a half years past his final shed, he is clearly a fighter!

It really is rare for a post ultimate shed as you put it, it never happened with any of my males, although i only had a small number of them.

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Posted - 18/11/2009 : 19:57:08

awww that's such a shame! what a tough lil man!
and you're welcome! at least he has a caring home :)
poor little man, and 2 and a half years is amazing! a good mum!
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Kellog
the nice one

United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/11/2009 : 05:20:59

Kizzig - I know nothing about spiders but am so sorry to hear about your old man...it must be so hard not being able to do anything and knowing that it will just be a matter of time...

I really feel for you.

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