Pulk
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away/3 weeksthere's no pet-sitting subforum, so... Edit: now there is!
around Sept. 10-30 I'm going to be in China. I need to do something with the bugs. GQ/Gilbert has (-very- kindly) agreed to take the S. heros and larger Latros, and I can get some friends to feed/water the herps, large spiders, and parakeets.
The only thing left is tons of L. geometricus (brown widow) hatchlings and a few baby trapdoors.
Would anybody want to take care of the trapdoors and any number of widows for 3 weeks? I wouldn't notice if you kept a few (dozen) geometricusses ;-)
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cacoseraph
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Re: away/3 weeks | Pulk wrote: | there's no pet-sitting subforum, so...
around Sept. 10-30 I'm going to be in China. I need to do something with the bugs. GQ/Gilbert has (-very- kindly) agreed to take the S. heros and larger Latros, and I can get some friends to feed/water the herps, large spiders, and parakeets.
The only thing left is tons of L. geometricus (brown widow) hatchlings and a few baby trapdoors.
Would anybody want to take care of the trapdoors and any number of widows for 3 weeks? I wouldn't notice if you kept a few (dozen) geometricusses ;-) |
DANG IT! this was another good thing i wanted to do with the local forum!
i need to build a bugsitting forum!
how many geos are we talking here? those are tough and don't take much care and all, but 150 would be rather labor intensive for somone who already has a decent collection to take care of also.
i think you should put down what your standard care for them is and like, how devestated you would be with like 10% losses or whatever
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Pulk
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awesome! a new sub-forum!
how many geos... as many as you feel like keeping alive. there could easily be several hundred, if they're separated early, or just a couple (ones) if you only keep a few that are already separated. >90% fatalities, even, is fine. they're as expendable as spiders can get, really.
i don't have a standard care for them, the first one got into its individual container less than a month ago. a fruit fly (d. melanogaster) or small piece of cricket/roach and a light misting once a week would be good.
now you know! 
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cacoseraph
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i can probably help out... but i am TERRIBLE with trues!
that 90% figure might actually be conservative! most trues just live too fast for me.
but... if all else fails and what not...
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Pulk
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If all else fails- GREAT.
It's not -too- hard to drop a fly into a cup... I guess.
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cacoseraph
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| Pulk wrote: | If all else fails- GREAT.
It's not -too- hard to drop a fly into a cup... I guess. |
::lol::, to drop *a* fly in *a* cup... not -too- hard... but when you are talking 100 flies in 100 cups the time investment goes up a bit =P
i actually have a pretty cool way of wrangling FFF (flightless fruit flies)
you spill about 5-10 into a bowl with water in it. the surface tension well traps the FFF and they take like 3-4 minutes to drown to death... so you you can real quick get a tooth pick or whatever and dish out the FF's in the water before they drown w/o having to chase the little bastards all over. it takes a little practice to get fast at it... but it is BY FAR the best method i have come across. no idea who i read that from, though.
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Pulk
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i'll have to try that.
yesterday i found a useful way to get slings out of the communal web cup thing. you get some webbing between the ends of the tweezers, so they're totally excited about climbing onto it, and it's like an adjustable scoop and not just two sticks next to each other. but you probably already knew about that.
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cacoseraph
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| Pulk wrote: | i'll have to try that.
yesterday i found a useful way to get slings out of the communal web cup thing. you get some webbing between the ends of the tweezers, so they're totally excited about climbing onto it, and it's like an adjustable scoop and not just two sticks next to each other. but you probably already knew about that. |
no, i usually just use paint brushes. i will have to try that
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Jules
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Pulk,
i have no idea which SCABIES event i will be attending next as my dog show schedule is beginning to start back up in the fall. However, if you need me to keep your B. smithi for you until you return i would be happy to. Maybe you can have your dad or someone just send me a check for the slings since i don't know when i will be seeing you. Just let me know and i can pm you my address. Otherwise, if there is somebody more convienent for you to pick up the slings from that you want me to give them to at the BBQ let me know that too. Thanks. jules
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Pulk
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dang, i totally forgot to mention the B. smithi and the C. longitarsusses. you think someone without spider experience and dead/.25" live crickets for food could handle them?
if not, i probably should have someone hold them.
jules, definitely pm me your address, i will mail you a check.
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~Abyss~
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cool new topic. Hey I can take care of a few things for you. Have no experiance with TS except for a baby widow im keeping . ALIVE!!. 
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to be honest
i expect most of the mygalo's would be fine if you fed and watered them before you left.
the only thing is that if you turn the AC off to your house and it gets warm (too much above 85*F) then they might not make it cuz it would make their metabolism too high
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Pulk
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the number of days w/o -any- care is not a problem, there will be someone coming every 3 days. the potential problems are
food (probably won't have live food <.25")
temps (don't want to leave them in the garage, don't have A/C... how about a fan? it may get over 85F)
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Pulk
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er, looks like it's gonna be you, caco. sorry. 
(thanks VERY much for your offer, abyss- i don't want to burden you with hundreds of widows if you haven't already had a bunch. i do, however, want to burden andrew with tons of spiders.)
as i haven't had anything like either of these, i don't know if i need to ask you to keep the Calisogas and the B. smithis.
if you can do this, thank you very, very much
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Pulk, I can take *some* of the widow slings.
Depending on how many I may be able to take them all.
Let me know and I would be happy to take care of them for you....
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Pulk
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that would be cool. how many would you want to take?
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How many do you have?
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Pulk
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More than you'd want to take care of.
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Give me a number and I will let you know how many I can take.
I can probably take like 100-200 of them......
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Pulk
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That's plenty.
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cacoseraph
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dang, i think i actually already have your smithi, pulk
i think i need to drink less and write down more next BBQ.... nah!
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Pulk
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oh... that's convenient! thanks for picking them up.
so how about this
sometime between now and Sept. 10 i give you the trap slings and you give me the L. para
when i get back i pick up the Calisoga, the Smithis, and the traps
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cacoseraph
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| Pulk wrote: | oh... that's convenient! thanks for picking them up.
so how about this
sometime between now and Sept. 10 i give you the trap slings and you give me the L. para
when i get back i pick up the Calisoga, the Smithis, and the traps
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weeeelll... i kind of went and took some initiative and got Jen650s' smithi and your smithi and was going to mail the para', and yours and shes (i think i might be makign up words or grammar here) smithis...
but i can certainly meet you or whatever. it's nice to get to scout other areas
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Pulk
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well, i'd rather not try shipping for the first time with the trap slings. if that's inconvenient for you I could attempt to do so, though.
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cacoseraph
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| Pulk wrote: | | well, i'd rather not try shipping for the first time with the trap slings. if that's inconvenient for you I could attempt to do so, though. |
we can meet up.
though, to be honest, slings are the easiest things to ship. the real danger in shipping is having something banged around to death. with slings you just put them in the center of a lot of toilet paper or paper towels in a vial... bigger bugs require more like, engineering.
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cacoseraph
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major snag, possibly...
i am moving this friday (8/24) and sometime around when i move my new apartment is being bug bombed! i am forced to store my bugs at a local petstore... but i have to pay for space so i can't really afford to store someone else's bugs
there is a chance i will be done airing the apartment out by the BBQ (Aug 9) and this is a non-issue... but i am not really sure about how the bug bomb thing is going to work and i don't want to wipe out *my* whole collection AND *your* whole collection!
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Jules
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Does this help???
i still have slings for Dave Ogershok who lives in Oceanside. i am trying to get the slings to him before our Sept BBQ because i have relatives in Oceanside. However, if i can't i will at least get them to him at the BBQ. Maybe we could ask Dave if he wouldn't mind taking the B. smithi slings at the BBQ for Pulk and Jen back down south with him. That would make it a lot closer for Jen to pick up and maybe if you ask real nice Dave would hold on to your B. smithi slings until you get back...?
i'm not trying to commit anyone to anything, just throwing out some ideas...
jules
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cacoseraph
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| Jules wrote: | Does this help???
i still have slings for Dave Ogershok who lives in Oceanside. i am trying to get the slings to him before our Sept BBQ because i have relatives in Oceanside. However, if i can't i will at least get them to him at the BBQ. Maybe we could ask Dave if he wouldn't mind taking the B. smithi slings at the BBQ for Pulk and Jen back down south with him. That would make it a lot closer for Jen to pick up and maybe if you ask real nice Dave would hold on to your B. smithi slings until you get back...?
i'm not trying to commit anyone to anything, just throwing out some ideas...
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i'm pretty sure i have jen's slings
bit of a logistical/strategic error on my part, i am afraid
also, pulk and i have probably got a work around to the apartment snafu
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Pulk
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i am almost certainly going to the BBQ. 
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