My pet snake is growing quick! (Post your pet pics!)

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Voodew

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Just wanted to share this with you guys, if you don't care, whatever :D.

The first picture is my pet Red Tail Boa, Vince, in my car on the ride back home from the reptile store.

The second is Vince around my shoulders. Took this picture about 5 minutes ago. He's getting bigger man, I'm excited for him to get full grown.

Do you guys have any crazy pets? If you do post some pictures!

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Oh sh&t no way dude... I have rats. Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Dean. They are in a witness relocation program after snitching on their family-hence making them rat food. Freakin rats...can't be trusted. I can describe em though.They look like beady eyed greedy little vermin with very long tails and disproportionately large satchels that drag behind them. Pretty much the best thing I can say about them is they don't bite....they are just these greedy nervous little dudes that have not realized there is an endless food supply in six months....stealing and hiding food from each other and putting it in little piles. It's hard not to take it personally when I give them a treat and they snatch it and run away. Just sensitive I guess...
 
Years ago, I had a couple red tails. I kept them for a long time and then graduated to Gaboon vipers.
 
I sure do:thumbup:

Latrodectus Hesperus (western black widow)
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Pterinochilus Murinus (orange baboon tarantula)
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Canis Lupus Familiaris (Clyde)
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Avicularia Versicolor (pink toe tarantula)
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Aphonopelma Chalcodes (Arizona blonde tarantula)
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Not pictured:
Heteroscodra maculata (Togo starburst tarantula)
Heteropoda venatoria (brown huntsman)
Lasiodora parahybana (Salmon pink bird-eating tarantula)
Hogna Carolinensis (giant wolf spider)

In total 5 tarantulas, 3 true spiders, and 1 dog
 
Canis Farticus Crapsaloticus - 50% canine + 50% dinosaur + 20% great white shark. Don't piss him off.

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I've owned two red tails. Both died unexpectedly. The one I only had for three months. The other I owned for almost three years, came home one day from work to find him dead. He was big, healthy and acting perfectly normal.
I found pythons to be more resilient. I had a reticulated and a ball python. The retic was big - about 11' at death. The ball was about 7'. The ball python had the most personality I've seen in a reptile.
Feeding frequency and enclosure size have a lot to do with how big they get. The thought of a large pet snake is fun. The reality is a struggle, but still fun.
 
Marty Young said:
Hey, Blues! Got any pics of Lasiodora parahybana (Salmon pink bird-eating tarantula)?
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Just took this one 5 minutes ago! It's not very big yet, I got it as a spiderling (baby), and have had it less than a year.

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It should get about this big in another year...

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It's amazing to watch a tarantula mature from spiderling to adult!!!
 
Aren't the hairs on tarantulas poisonous? Or is that only a few? I wonder how my mom would react if I brought that big one within 5 feet of her. :)
 
Marty Young said:
Thanks for the pics. Are the bird-eaters fast? What are you feeding it and how often?
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Sorry, I'm bad at the whole replying thing:p

Yes they can be fast when they want to be. Usually they hangout and are very slow, but when they are hungry or scared, LOOKOUT:eek: Some of my other spiders are much faster though, like my P. murinus and H. maculata. Those two have a really nasty bite too, it can put you out of commission for days; many African species are that way.
I just feed them all crickets and superworms weekly, but eventually I wanna get Dubia roaches since they aren't invasive and get pretty big.

TotalDbag said:
Aren't the hairs on tarantulas poisonous? Or is that only a few? I wonder how my mom would react if I brought that big one within 5 feet of her. :)
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They are referred to as urticating hairs and irritate you much like shards of fiberglass would, but x10.

But yes and no, it depends if it's an old world tarantula or new world tarantula. New world T's can flick urticating hairs at you, but they have weak venom. Old world T's don't have urticating hairs but are generally faster, more aggressive, and have much more potent venom.

Luckily I've never had hairs imbedded in me, nor have I been bitten...yet:p
 
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Blues Bender said:
Luckily I've never had hairs imbedded in me, nor have I been bitten...yet:p
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Wow. I'd say you must be both very careful and very lucky. I get bit several times a year on average and, while I admire spiders and will get much closer to them than most people I've known, you won't ever catch me picking one up without some unforeseeable and extraordinarily important reason.


He's a large cat.


A bad photo of one of the several hundred shrimp in one of my tanks. Been breeding them for those white eyes and am looking into how to sell them. They are worth a surprising amount for such tiny critters.

 
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