Photo tour of my spider room:

[jmugleston]

Finally moved all but the quarantine group into the spider room. Here it is along with a couple of lobster roach bins.

Gravid Female Shelf Some of those about to be pulled are covered with towels....like little 8 legged Christmas presents.

 

[Srt14292]

damn how many spiders have you got?

 

[jmugleston]

Quite a few.

 

[herpencounter]

I have wanted that skink in your profile picture/avatar FOREVER! Is it yours?

I think you have a spider problem... Have you called the bug man? =P

What kind of spiders?

 

[Sunrise Reptile]

Quite a few.

Ummmmm...I think it's safe to say that's an understatement.

So there are obviously lots of spiders in those various containers. Do you have any other invertebrates, such as scorpions or centipedes?

 

[jmugleston]

Ummmmm...I think it's safe to say that's an understatement.

So there are obviously lots of spiders in those various containers. Do you have any other invertebrates, such as scorpions or centipedes?

For now we're focusing on spiders. Once we get more established and the business up and running we may expand to other invertebrates.

 

[Norman_22]

all i can say is "WOW"!

how many hours does it take to feed all these inverts?

 

[Enigmatic_Reptiles]

Wow thats a awesome collection. You should post some pics of some of your spiders.

 

[gaparicio]

I'm curious as to what spiders you have as well. OW? NW? I recently added to my collection a couple of A. Avics, a B. Boehmei and should be getting a P. Irminia in the next week or so.

 

[jmugleston]

I'm curious as to what spiders you have as well. OW? NW? I recently added to my collection a couple of A. Avics, a B. Boehmei and should be getting a P. Irminia in the next week or so.

Congrats on the new additions. You'll love the P. irminia. They have some amazing colors when they mature (the females that is the males turn a silvery/gray color when they mature.
Here is a list of the species we're currently working with:

Arachnids:
Acanthoscurria brocklehursti
Acanthoscurria geniculata
Aphonopelma anax
Aphonopelma armada
Aphonopelma behlei
Aphonopelma hentzi
Aphonopelma moderatum
Aphonopelma schmidti
Aphonopelma seemanni
Aphonopelma sp "Cleater Mts"
Aphonopelma sp. "New River"
Augacephalus junodi
Avicularia amizonica
Avicularia avicularia
Avicularia bicegoi
Avicularia braunshauseni
Avicularia fasciculata
Avicularia huriana
Avicularia metallica
Avicularia metallica "sp. green"
Avicularia minitrax
Avicularia purpurea
Avicularia urtricans
Avicularia versicolor
Brachypelma albiceps
Brachypelma albopilosum
Brachypelma annitha
Brachypelma auratum
Brachypelma boehmei
Brachypelma emelia
Brachypelma klaasi
Brachypelma smithi
Brachypelma vagans
Ceratogyrus brachycephalus
Ceratogyrus darlingi
Ceratogyrus marshalli
Chilobrachys fimbriatus
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
Citarischius crawshayi
Cyclosternum fasciatum
Cyriocosmus elegans
Ephebopus cyanognathus
Eucratoscelus pachypus
Grammostola pulchra
Grammostola pulchripes
Grammastola rosea
Haplopelma hainanum
Haplopelma lividum
Haplopelma sp."kambodscha"
Hemiercus sp. "Guyana"
Heteroscodra maculata
Hysterocrates gigas
Lampropelma violaceopes
Megaphobema mesomelas
Megaphobema robustum
Nhandu carapoensis
Nhandu chromatus
Nhandu colloratovillosus
Pamphobeteus antinous
Pamphobeteus platyomma
Phlogius sp. "Aussie Goliath"
Phormictopus cancerides
Poecilotheria fasciata
Poecilotheria formosa
Poecilotheria miranda
Poecilotheria ornata
Poecilotheria pederseni
Poecilotheria regalis
Poecilotheria striata
Poecilotheria subfusca
Psalmopoeus irminia
Pterinochilus murinus
Sericopelma rubronitens
Stromatopelma calceatum
Theraphosa apophysis
Theraphosa blondi
Theraphosa sp.
Xenesthis immanis

 

[gitrdone0420]

Oh my! That is ALOT of spiders! I think I would have a heart attack if I stepped foot in that room!

 

[jmugleston]

Oh my! That is ALOT of spiders! I think I would have a heart attack if I stepped foot in that room!

Okay, but if you collapse, please fall away from the cages....I don't want you accidentally spooking one of the moms causing her to eat her eggsac.

 

[adam&nikki]

i want to get a few bird eating trantulas but the wife wont let me lol i like the set up how many you have exactly?

 

[T&KBrouse]

WOW! That is amazing!
It seems like it takes me forever just to tidy up and feed my 20. I couldn't imagine trying to care for that many!
What species of sacs will you be getting?

 

[jmugleston]

WOW! That is amazing!
It seems like it takes me forever just to tidy up and feed my 20. I couldn't imagine trying to care for that many!
What species of sacs will you be getting?

Right now the moms are guarding the following eggsacs: 4 indian ornamentals, 2 ghost ornamentals, 1 Mexican fireleg, 1 Indian Violet, and a Mexican redrump is laying her eggs as I type this. We have a number of other females that are gravid as well. I'll post pictures this weekend as I'm pulling a few of the eggsacs to incubate them myself the rest of the way.

 

[jmugleston]

i want to get a few bird eating trantulas but the wife wont let me lol i like the set up how many you have exactly?

I have 32 T. "blondi" (These are sold as goliath bird eaters, but they are a bit different than the goliath bird eaters in the hobby a decade ago), 2 Theraphosa apophysis (Pink Foot Goliaths) and 1 Theraphosa blondi (The original Goliath Birdeater). So, 35 that are commonly sold as goliath birdeaters....unless you count the babies I hatched last year....but since I'm selling them I don't count them.

Though there may be some confusion since most large tarantulas from North and South America are called bird eaters. I figured you meant the really big ones.

 

[gaparicio]

I have 2 Salmon Pink Birdeaters that I got as slings last April. Now they're pushing 5"! Talk about fast growers. They eat like pigs too.lol. I'll see you in the next coming months about a few tarantulas.

 

[jmugleston]

I have 2 Salmon Pink Birdeaters that I got as slings last April. Now they're pushing 5"! Talk about fast growers. They eat like pigs too.lol. I'll see you in the next coming months about a few tarantulas.

Sounds good. Those salmon pinks are fast growers....prolific as well. Eggsacs with well over 1000 slings are not uncommon.

 

[adam&nikki]

ya im talking about the ones that get to be the size of a dinner plate those are the wones i want

 

[jmugleston]

ya im talking about the ones that get to be the size of a dinner plate those are the wones i want

Well, convince your wife that getting a goliath bird eater is the best step for the both of you and then let me know. I still have about a dozen babies left. You can raise them from little fuzzball spiderlings.