Green lightening and the rumps

I received some new lovelies from Kelly Swift (swiftinverts.com) in the mail a couple days ago, and they are all doing fine. I ended up getting a H.Incei 1",C.fasciatum .5"-ish, and C.Elegans .5".

The H.incei(Trinidad olive) are fast lil buggers, and this one only lives to break out of his container when I feed him his dinner. I always see him maneuvering himself toward where I'm opening his container so he can dart out. I think I'm going to get use the plastic bag trick here soon(oh the fun!). He has also started webbing his tunnels on the surface and caking the containers with his webbing. Overall,This is a very neat species all around.

My cyriocosmus fasciatum (costa rican tiger rump) was easy to rehouse into it's new home. This creature was very mellow with me, though a bit skittish when I toss in pre-killed pinhead crickets. I'm really glad I finally got me a dwarf tarantula!

and last but not least, my last addition is also a dwarf species from the same family cyriocosmus. The cyriocosmus elegans(Trinidad Dwarf tiger rump), I got a very skittish one . But, he seems to like it out in the open for me to look at him from time to time.

What's next on my list?
I might try acquire a centipede next. they look neat, but creepy with all those legs.

This one is Scolopendra polymorpha with 21 pairs of legs!!

Bazaar pet

As a kid, I was always fascinated with animals and how they lived. When I was in school, Biology was really the only subject, next to art and music, that I really gave attention to. It wasn't long before I started bringing home things and trying my best to maintain them such as bugs in the yard or stray house spiders, but eventually I realized I couldn't quite keep them, so I let them go out of compassion. I wanted them, but I didn't want them and have them suffer and die.

I grew a strong passion for creepy crawlies, as my friends would put it, and reptiles. then, after many hours of begging, I got me a beloved iguana so wasn't the friendliest lizard. he later died due to me not having the stuff to really keep him. At that time, I didn't know about heat lamps, and things like that. In fact, the pet store sold me a rock that burned him. After that, I felt that maybe pets weren't a good idea, especially from the local pet store. My reptile and exotic pet dream faded after that.


Over the years, my interest never really went away but instead grew more and more inside me like a cancer until two days ago after research and browsing forums that I finally bought me a scorpion.

Say hello to my lil friend.....

Desert Hairy Scorpion (Hadrurus arizonensis)

After two days of care, He ate 3 crickets. Quite the eater, but i think he just ate it cause it was just there. the cricket practically hopped on his carapace(?) before he devoured them.

I hope this is the first of many inverts and exotics.

NEXT ON MY LIST: Something from the cyriocosmus family! A beautiful species of dwarfish tarantulas.