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After years of not keeping a single Xenesthis species, I now find myself with five different ones. In this episode, I give my first impressions on the...

We all do it to some extent, and it some cases it's fun and harmless. But what happens when assigning human characteristics to our spiders inhibi...

I made an unfortunately discovery when I checked on my female O. philippinus this week. Here is the story. Also, we talk a bit about the stigma surrou...

To kick this one off, I finally picked up a couple of the Herpcult acrylic enclosures. In this episode, I share my thoughts on them. Also, we discus t...

I've been getting a lot of questions about tarantula communes lately, so I figured that it would be a good time to share some thoughts and reflec...

After getting three questions about this in one week, I figured that it would make for a good podcast topic. How do you know when your tarantula has s...

After being asked this question many times, I actually sat down to figure out which tarantulas I would keep if I could only keep 10. I pretty much fai...

To kick this one off, I answer a couple listener questions. Then, we discuss the husbandry of Theraphosa species.  

I've been reluctant to tackle this one, as I've already spoken to keepers who have been turned off to keeping new world tarantulas after hea...

First, a huge thank you to Lexi for chiming in on the isopod topic. For those who ask why I won't use these with tarantulas again, this podcast w...

After getting a bunch of questions about "ideal temperatures" and "room temperatures" lately, I thought it would be a good idea to...

First, I refer to Dolichothele diamantinensis by its old genus name in the podcast.  When I edited the video version, I used old clips labeled with th...