Invertebrates

Invertebrates covers the wide variety of spineless pets kept in herpetoculture today. Such as arachnids, centipedes, and millipedes.

The Wild and Wooly Tiki Tiki Reptiles!

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Packing them is really the trick we make sure we get everything labeled properly so when we bring it back, it all goes back where it’s supposed to. Especially hets and things like that.

Cobalt Blue Tarantula Haplopelma lividum

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The Cobalt Blue Tarantula Haplopelma lividum is an average size tarantula measuring a total of 4” to sometimes 5” in total for large females. Being fossorial or ground dwelling we need not be concerned with the height of the enclosure as much as the floor space.

Spider Venom in the Garden of Eatin’?

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In the course of this conversation we discussed the Brown Recluse species Loxosceles reclusa and their reputation. This brought up a pet peeve of mine. I can throw a stone anywhere in California and hit somebody who knows of someone who has been envenomated by a Brown Recluse Loxosceles reclusa in the state of California.