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EckoZero wrote:Tarantulas are great!

Dead you say? What a shame

Yup, gone these ten years and never called me "mother".

I bought her to get over my arachnophobia when she was about the size of a penny. But instead of curing my arachnophobia, I got over my fear of Ariadne, basically! I still freak a bit when there's a giant house spider on the loose, but there's a little zebra spider living in the hall that I've called Zebedee. I dunno what he eats but he seems happy enough scuttling about on the ceiling all day. Not many people know zebra spiders are native to the UK. They're the little jumping ones (about 5mm) with black and white hairs and big headlamp eyes. They have an elaborate courtship dance but they're a bit daft. If you put a mirror in front of them, they will dance for themselves! Can't wait for Zebedee to come down off the ceiling so I can try it out! There might be an interesting effect in it...

Tomo the Great - hypnotist of spiders

Wow. You bought a giant spider to get over a fear of spiders and ended up only overcoming the fear of your personal giant spider.

Cool!

As for zebra spiders, I don't think I know the ones you mean... although that said we have huge spiders crawling up walls and whatnot in this place, so I'm sure I've seen one before

Sadly, I am not allowed my own pet tarantula

Tarantulas are the best pets. They don't need walking, don't rip up the furniture, don't leave little presents everywhere, you can leave them for a reasonable length of time, they're fascinating to watch and softer than a kitten's chin.

Any road up, here's some stuff on zebras (spiders, not stripey horse-like things)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/f ... /350.shtml

I have snakes, Royal Python and 2 x corn snakes if we are talking about different pets.

Hehe. Sounds ideal.

Think you can convince my missus to let me keep a tarantula though?
Did you let your tarantula run over you? Or just keep it in its tank?

Wow! Zebra spiders look pretty cool I'll be sure to keep an eye out for them. I think it's quite cool that they'll turn to look at you if you go in for a close look...

I really like corn snakes. The markings are really cool. Plus they don't grow to enormous sizes!

Tomo, these are my two corns



both now about 2 foot. My python is loverly and is about 5 foot

EckoZero wrote:Did you let your tarantula run over you? Or just keep it in its tank?

I learned to pick her up and used to stroke her to get her used to being handled, but on the whole they're very low interaction pets. If you surprised her, she'd rear up to look big and frightening, but it's just for show to make you go away.If she heard and saw you coming she was cool with it. The only danger with them is the hairs they rub off from their backsides with their back legs when they're frightened, because they're very sharp and irritate the skin. You can always tell one that's been bothered and prodded about by people tryng to get a reaction out of it because they have a bald bum!

Hello Owls, hope you are comfy in your trees

Very comfy thank you

AJ82 wrote:Tomo, these are my two corns both now about 2 foot. My python is loverly and is about 5 foot

They're lovely, AJ. I like the idea of snakes as pets. I can't understand people who are frightened of them. I think they're really soothing.

yes thanks. Watching Bringing down the house on BBC1. What are you up to?

I'm dead scared of spiders and snakes but I'm fascinated by anacondas and spider-man lol We have a cat and two dogs (a border collie cross and a dandy dingmott terrier we inherited from my great aunt 4 months ago)

AJ do you handle those snakes?

Merlin666? what a complete and utter (censored ) i am just taking it easy and having fun on here, listening to Green Day and having a nice cold coke!

Mmm that sounds nice I think we have pepsi downstairs brb will give me a chance to practise sinful