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Acanthoscurria:
   Para mongo zebra (A. fracta) x0
   Giant whiteknee (A. geniculata) x6
Avicularia:
   Pinktoe (A. avicularia) x2
   "Goliath pinktoe" (A. "braunshauseni")
   "Big purple pinktoe" (A. "Bolivia #2")
   Ecuadorian wooly (A. huriana)
   Yellow banded pinktoe (A. jurenesis)
   Whitetoe (A. metallica) x4
   Venezuelan redstripe (A. minatrix)
   Ecuadorian purple (A. purpurea) x2
   Peruvian pinktoe (A. urticans)
   Antilles pinktoe (A. versicolor)
Brachypelma:
   Curlyhair (B. albopilosum)x0
   Michoacan orange (B. baumgarteni)
   Mexican fireleg (B. boehmei) x2
   Mexican redknee (B. smithi)
   Mexican redrump (B. vagans)
Ceratogyrus:
   Straighthorned (C. cornuatus)
Chilobrachys:
   "Blue chevron" (C. fimbratus)
Chromatopelma:
   Greenbottle blue (C. cyaneopubescens) x5
Citharischius:
   King Baboon (C. crawshayi)
Cyclosternum:
   Costa Rican tigerrump (C. fasciatum)
Cyriopagopus:
   Malaysian earthtiger (C. thorelli)
Ephebopus:
   "Blue fang" (E. cyanognathus)
Grammostola:
   "Brazilian redrump" (G. actaeon)
   "Brazilian tawnyred" (G. mollicoma) x0
   Brazilian Black (G. pulchra)
   Chilean rose (G. rosea) x0
   "Chaco golden stripe" (Grammostola sp.)
Haplopelma:
   Cobalt blue (H. lividum) x2
Heteroscodra:
   Togo starburst (H. maculata)
Hysterocrates:
   Camaroon red (H. gigas) x2
Megaphobema:
   Columbian giant redleg (M. robustum)
Nhandu:
   Brazilian red (N. carapoensis)
   Brazilian black&white (N. coloratovillosus)
   "Hi-white" morph (N. coloratovillosus?)
Pamphobeteus:
   Brazilian pink (P. sp. "platyomma")
Poecilotheria:
   Sri Lankan ornamental (P. fasciata)
   Salem ornamental (P. formosa)
   Fringed ornamental (P. ornata)
   Indian ornamental (P. regalis)
   Redslate ornamental (P. rufilata) x2
Psalmopoeus:
   Trinidad chevron (P. cambridgei) x0
   Suntiger (P. irminia)
   Panama blond (P. pulcher)
Pterinochilus:
   "Usambara" orange (Pterinochilus sp.) x0
Stromatopelma:
   Featherleg (S. calceatum)
Tapinauchenius:
   "Orange treespider" (T. gigas) x0
Theraphosa:
   Goliath birdeater (T. blondi)

True spiders:
   Bold jumper (Phidippus audax)
   "Tan jumping spider" (Metacyrba undata)
   Wolf spiders (Lycosa sp.?)

Myriopods:
   Florida blue centipede
     (Hemiscolopendra marginata)
   Giant Peruvian centipede
     (Scolopendra sp. "gigantea robusta")
   Red head centipede
     (Scolopendra heros castaneiceps)

Insects:
   Camaroon mantis
     (Sphodromantis sp.)
   Madagascan hissing cockroaches
     (Gromphadorhina portentosa)
   Lobster roaches
     (Naphoeta cinerea)
   House crickets
     (Acheta domesticus)

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Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens breeding...

12/06/2000 Recieved a breeding group of Chromatoplema cyaneopubescens (various sizes and sexes) from Arachnocentric. These include two adult females (4-5"), and two subadult males (about 2" and 3"), to go along with Speck (4"+ male).

01/06/2001 Male #2 (Harvey) and Female #2 (Esther) molted.

01/08/2001 Male #3 molted (Philo).

01/24/2001 Female #1 molted (Teri).

03/09/2001 Male #1 (Speck) molted into a mature male... Will try to breed soon!

03/26/2001 Male #2 (Harvey) molted.

03/28/2001 I've moved Female #1 into a big 10 gallon aquarium so that she can more safely cohabit with the male. I'll start shark caging him this weekend. I haven't noticed a sperm web for sure yet, but there's so much webbing in Speck's cage, it would be impossible to tell for sure.

04/03/2001 I am shark caging speck with the female now and they are definately noticing each other. I'll let him out in a day or two so they can do their thing. The female is DEFINATELY interested.

04/09/2001 I opened the shark cage (a pet pal on its side) today. Later in the evening I saw both spiders had moved, and speck was on top of the shark cage. This species is apparently very secretive about its matings, so I'll just have to leave them together and see how it goes.

07/25/2001 After a couple weeks with the first female, I put the male with the second female. He lived with her for a few weeks than was eaten. The first female laid a sac, but ate it right away (it was apparently infertile). At first I though the second mating didn't take, but the female is getting fat now, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.