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I used to like cats and dogs, but since owning a python, I just don't think any other animal could come close. Snakes are just so special and unique. In saying that though, I haven't really had any experience with lizards.
 
frogs number 1, then geckos, its something about the eyes that gets me
 
Am I the only one who's going to say rats? :p

Reptiles then rats :) I couldn't live without either
 
Cool Steve, what (sp) did you or do you keep, do you have any non AUS BES's, i had been nagging a big breeder in SYD to sell me a Selenocosmia Javanensis (from Indonesia) for a long time without any success, apparently they are very slow to breed in captivity, i wanted 1 because from all reports they are a very big and very laid back (sp) and i was starting to get bit toooooooo many times by our QLD (sp) sorry to the OP but i don't get to talk with many about my love of this sp :) .........................Ron

Female Selenocosmia Javanensis

Hi Ron,

I to am a avid Tarantula keeper and have been keeping and breeding for about 8 -9 years now and have kept most of our Aussie Tarantulas. I noticed that you are calling them Phlogiellus an Selenocosmia, these are names that will soon change arfter Dr Robert Raven has published his review of Australian Theraphosidae. So Phlogiellus will be Phlogius and the Aussie species put into Selenocosmia will be removed and placed into either Selenotypus, Selenotholus and Phlogius.When this is likly to happen god only knows and is needed ASAP so we all know what we have. It's interesting (but not surprising) that people are breeding exotics here and quite openly so by the sounds of it as there are hefty fines involved if caught with exotics.
How many times have you been bitten by Aussie tarantulas and what is the reaction you have?

Danny
 
If i could not keep Pythons for some reason i would go back to keeping Arachnids and invert's, for 20 or so years they were my passion but unfortunately i got bit by too many BES's and developed a really bad reaction to their venom, i still love Pythons with a vengeance but still drool whenever i see a Phlogiellus crassipes or a Selenocosmia, the sight of these species make alot of peoples blood run cold but it is the same with snakes for others, we are just lucky i guess :) ................................Ron

Female Phlogiellus crassipes

oh that's a beauty!!! I am very fond of our 8 legged friends, have a Selenotholus Gold and just recently after over 2 years of waiting picked up a couple of goliaths
 
Love my snakes but my bird eating spider is just cool. Also getting some scorpions and a centipede very soon. I love anything that most people would be scared to have. I just dig having pets that could eat other people's pets.

The only thing I'd really have to think twice about would be anything dangerously venomous.
 
I love ferrets but been put off keeping them because off the maintenance and the smell.
Can't wait to have my own place to get a dog .

They're great fun but sort of high maintenance (they need constant attention and a lot of room to explore safely) and also escape artists. I had a ferret but I underestimated his Houdini act and he's been missing for about a month. First time I've lost a pet, bit ****.
 
Cool Steve, what (sp) did you or do you keep, do you have any non AUS BES's, i had been nagging a big breeder in SYD to sell me a Selenocosmia Javanensis (from Indonesia) for a long time without any success, apparently they are very slow to breed in captivity, i wanted 1 because from all reports they are a very big and very laid back (sp) and i was starting to get bit toooooooo many times by our QLD (sp) sorry to the OP but i don't get to talk with many about my love of this sp :) .........................Ron

Female Selenocosmia Javanensis

G'day Ron

I have a female Phlogius sp. "BlacK"
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and a female Selenotypus Sp. 4.
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And a couple of scorps.
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I am hearing a lot of stories of different T's in Arnhem Land where I spend a lot of my time. Hopefully I'll find some soon. So far I have only found empty burrows (lots of them). It seems clear that they migrate to other sites during the Dry when the soil dries out. I just dont know where yet!

Good luck with the Javanensis. I haven't had a bite from any of my guys yet and dont plan to if I can help it. The Phlogius is very aggressive and I wont be attempting to handle her anytime soon :)

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1) Snakes, 2) Dogs, 3) Porn . . . . . . . .can I say that?
 
Some of these:)!!
 

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When I open an Elliot trap and see spots I have a sudden need to be somewhere else and hand it over to the nearest sucker ha ha. Once bitten twice shy!

So the "white knuckle fever" grip around the neck was warranted then?..it felt like the right way to proceed at the time:).
 
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