Cat Scratcher/House. Thread now a discussion about tarantulas!

[LillyDeMorte 10]

Thought perhapse a cat charity or someone might be able to make use of this, it is a little marked on the top and tatty looking in places but its still solid and doesnt look too bad from the side with peep holes. Shame to throw it out, FREE but needs collecting, couple of photos below;

 

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG1265.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG1266.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG1267.jpg

[midgecat 10]

Yes please! I'd love it for my fosters and could collect this week.

 

http://8livescatrescue.wordpress.com/about/

[LillyDeMorte 10]

Ive pm'd you

[midgecat 10]

thanks again for these LillyDeMorte. sorry it ended up taking so long to get to you. and thanks for the very unexpected, but fascinating lesson about spiders! i don't think i'll ever look at them with quite the same eyes again. lovely to meet you

[Sam71 10]

thanks again for these LillyDeMorte. sorry it ended up taking so long to get to you. and thanks for the very unexpected, but fascinating lesson about spiders! i don't think i'll ever look at them with quite the same eyes again. lovely to meet you

 

my bold

 

Sounds intriguing Doooooooooooooo tell

[LillyDeMorte 10]

Im so pleased it went to a good home and will be well used, It was lovely to meet you aswell

 

Sam71

I keep pet tarantulas! I was nattering on about them, how they feed, what they eat, how they moult and grow etc, and i got out some of the previous sheds to look at

 

I have a 2yr old martinique pink toe, my big un (called Fluffy) (pinky-purple/turquoise)

and a 1yr old mexican red knee, still a baby sized tarantuala (called Fangs) (red/black)

[Sam71 10]

Ooo a spider woman My 3 year old would love a tarantula bless her. She keeps catching them and showing my 6 year old who goes screaming off as far away as possible

[midgecat 10]

I honestly had no idea that spiders were that interesting or amazing. It's prompted me to read more.

 

The only spiders around our house are ones that the cats have dismembered

[sand_dollars 10]

Yes please! I'd love it for my fosters and could collect this week.

 

http://8livescatrescue.wordpress.com/about/

 

Hi I have a plastic pink cat basket if you want it my kitten turned her nose up at it so practically brand new

[LillyDeMorte 10]

Tarantulas are quite easy to keep, if your thinking of getting one I would recomend visiting http://www.thespidershop.co.uk that's where mine have come from. They have a section on there website about which species are good for beginers, such as the red knee I have, and all the information you need about keeping them, you can also ring them for advice and there really helpful!

[Moonbird 11]

Tarantulas are quite easy to keep, if your thinking of getting one I would recomend visiting http://www.thespidershop.co.uk that's where mine have come from. They have a section on there website about which species are good for beginers, such as the red knee I have, and all the information you need about keeping them, you can also ring them for advice and there really helpful!

 

I just wondered how much it would be to get a set up for a spider and what I need?

I know I can Google but its nice to know from someone that has them I think.

[LillyDeMorte 10]

It all depends on what sort of spider you wanted and how fancy you wanted the tank, ill give an example on my red knee that i bought as the pink toe i addopted from a friend who emigrated.

 

Red knee spiderling (1cm) was £5 from the spider shop,

Rearing jar for housing was about £1 (p&p for both items was around £9)

 

I later bought a mini aquarium for her, that was £4 ish

 

Substrate for housing, i use coir bark and its about £3-4 but this lasts ages as you only need an inch or two at the bottom, it comes compacted and puffs up, i still have the first one i bought after two small tank cleans and one large.

 

Some spieces prefere substrate mixed with vermiculite, you can get that from garden centers but i dont have it for mine.

 

Hide, i first used a bottle top sunk down as shelter, thats how tiny she was! Now i have a half hollowed log for her to hide under, about £1-3

 

Aboreal species need a long log in a tall tank to build a web on/around for there hide, high up like in there natural habital in trees, i havent had to buy these as mine pink toe came with her tank but i shouldnt think it should vary too much initially for a tank/hide

 

Anything else you want to add thats tarantula safe, i have two mini skulls in fangs current tank, theres a tunnel dug under one where shes made a bit of a lair

 

Heating, small reptile heat pad, i got mine on ebay for about £8

 

Water spray bottle, for misting the tank to keep humidity, can get these from poundland etc

 

For more delicate species you may need a thermostat to check temperature and humidity etc

 

Food, crickets or meal worms, around £2.50 a tub, i get mealworms and fangs eats the smaller ones out of the box and fluffy the slightly bigger ones, if choosing crickets feeding them lettuce etc helps them keep longer and pass on the nutrients, however they kept looking at me with thier little faces all sad, and fangs refused to eat them so i went for the mealworms and i find they keep a bit longer and are easier to feed to the tarantulas. Teeny spiderlings sometimes need pin head crickets to start off with, or fruit flies, usualy £2.50-4

 

Water dish, small spiderlings just need the housing interior misting to get there moisture, they get alot from there food, some people give bigger, adult tarantulas a dish but some dont, i dont have water dish's for mine.

 

Spiderlings vary from £3-45 most of the recomended for beginer ones are less than £10 tho.

 

I think ive covered everything. Most of thats from my experience of how ive been keeping mine, researching differnt websites and what they recomended, and what advice my friend gave me

 

Roughly totting up the basics on the lower end price wise id say around £35 to start off (spider/housing/substrate/hide/heating/misting bottle/food), then it'll just be a case of buying the food at £2.50 as needed untill substrate runs out or a larger tank is needed, or you want to jazz it up etc

 

Hope thats some help to you

 

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Some pictures of my t's

 

Fangs;

 

Baby fangs, not long after moving into the bigger tank, little brown spider

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG0834.jpg

 

Hiding out in my skull

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG0818.jpg

 

First moult, now looking like a mini tarantula

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG1024.jpg

 

The moult

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG1008.jpg

 

Second moult, how she looks now, much more vibrant and more furry

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG1385.jpg

 

 

Fluffy

 

Dinner time!

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG1026-1.jpg

 

1st moulted skin while shes been mine

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/IMAG0954.jpg

 

Vibrance after moulting (excuse it being a screenshot of my phone wallpaper hehe)

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o168/livingdeadgirl13666/2013-07-03_08-04-10-1.png

Edited August 24, 2013 by LillyDeMorte