I don't keep many tarantulas at the moment, I'm down to just 9.
After some soul-searching, we decided we didn't want to deal with breeding tarantulas. Originally we had bought a few of each one to guarantee having females to eventually breed, but, we recently sold off enough where we only had one of each remaining species.
We had a major die-off a couple years ago where we lost 20 in a single week, not sure if the neighbor sprayed pesticide, if we got contaminated crickets or what happened. BUT, that pretty much cured me of the desire to try to breed them. It takes years for most species to reach maturity, so it's just a lot of time invested in a pet that can die so easily. We had spiderlings we'd been growing for a year that just got wiped out when that happened including a couple juvenile females we were really excited about.
Fortunately now we live far enough from the nearest neighbor where we shouldn't have a problem if they do decide to spray. So, we do plan to get a couple of our favorites again to be able to just enjoy watching them. Don't get me wrong, we've had a couple losses in the last couple years, but at least they were losses that mostly made sense. Like mature males dying, or a couple bad molts, and then one that got nematodes somehow. At least no husbandry mistakes or mass die-offs from chemical contamination.
Right now we have the following species, just one of each except the L. Parahybana which we still have two of..
Brachypelma emelia
Brachypelma albopilosum
Grammastola rosea
Grammastola aureostriata
Psalmopoeus pulcher
Lasiodora parahybana
Pterinochilus murinus
Nhandu chromatus
I did take more recent photos of them, but my two prettiest ones, the P. murinus and P. Pulcher are both about impossible to photograph. Just too fast with running back into their hides when the camera comes out.
I'll probably start a new thread with their photos for you, Jace.





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