Hi! I keep tarantulas, freshwater aquariums, and some miscellaneous inverts in bioactive, naturalistic set ups. This blog is meant to showcase my spiders but may also look into my other critters. Tarantulas:
Twinkleberry: Chromatopelma cyanopubescens, Green Bottle Blue, juvenile
Trundle: Hapalopus formosus 'large', Pumpkin patch, juvenile
Duck: Cyriocosmus elegans, Trinidad dwarf, juvenile
Goose: Cyriocosmus sp. tambopata, sling
Knees: Citharacanthus cyaneus, Cuban orange-violet, sling
Maple: Thrixopelma cyaneolum
Pudge (deceased): Hapalopus formosus 'large', male; purchased as a mature male, Pudge lived for six months and started it all for me.
Inverts:
Two American millipedes, Armadillidium vulgare (native) and Armadillidium maculatum 'zebra' isopods, and whatever beetles, grubs, and caterpillars may cross paths.
Aquariums:
1gal: planted low tech, no heater, no filter, Walstad method, stocked with a few cherry shrimp and microfauna
5gal: homemade planted low tech, heated and with sponge filter, Father Fish method, stocked with ember tetras and cherry shrimp
30gal: blackwater low tech, stocked with a juvenile Eastern musk turtle (Oakleaf), cherry shrimp, clams, and various tropical fish that came with the original set up













