08-26-2009, 04:53 PM
Quote:Greetings Lurkers!
Long time no communicate! Looks like a good time to be active again, what with changes in the air an so forth (DIABLO 3 WOO!). I just acquired a new addiction the other day, guess what it is.... SCORPIONS! That`s right, I care for scorpions now! So far I only have a pair of female Pandinus imperator but, I will soon be enlarging my collection. So my question is this: Does anyone else in the lounge care for/collect Arachnids?
Nomad
A friend of mine caught and kept a female black phase Brown Widow Spider (Latrodectus geometricus) which she named "Matilda." Despite living alone, Matilda laid egg sacs regularly, which would have to be carefully fished out of her dwelling before they hatched, and Miss Spider did not take very kindly to being robbed of her egg sacs. Matilda lived high on a steady diet of crickets, each named after a different distasteful celebrity (Ben Stein, Joel Osteen, and so on). Spare crickets were kept in a most desolate container dubbed "Cricket Auschwitz" where they often cannibalized each other for food. At the moment of Matilda's death, she fell from her web onto a rock landing upon her back with a single foreleg outstretched heavenward, cursing her own mortality.
-Lem