Old News...

  12/31/2000  The B. coloratovillosum and P. rufilata #2 molted today. Also, the H. lividum laid her eggsac!
  12/28/2000  Posted photograph of a rather large Australian Huntsman spider (Holconia immanis) that my brother took while in Australia.
  12/27/2000  The C. fasciatum molted today.
  12/21/2000  The H. maculata molted today.
  12/19/2000  The A. versicolor #2 molted today.
  12/18/2000  The N. carapoensis molted today.
  12/17/2000  The A. aviculaira #1 and P. rufilata #1 molted early this morning.
  12/15/2000  Uploaded pictures and pages for new spiders.
  12/14/2000  The A. minatrix molted.
  12/13/2000  Recieved a Brazilopelma coloratovillosum, Nhandu carapoensis and Citharischius crawshayi.
Also, the P. cambridgei molted.
  12/12/2000  The A. huriana and Raul (!) molted!
  12/10/2000  The T. gigas molted.
  12/09/2000  A. purpurea #2 molted.
  12/08/2000  H. gigas #2 and B. smithi molted.
  12/07/2000  H. gigas #1 molted.
  12/06/2000  Recieved breeding groups of A. geniculata and C. cyaneopubescens from Arachnocentric, plus a little baby pinktoe.
Also, the P. pulcher finally molted.
  12/05/2000  The G. actaeon molted.
  12/03/2000  A. purpurea #1 molted.
  11/28/2000  The C. thorelli molted during the night.
  11/22/2000  32 new pictures added to the recent pictures section!
  11/21/2000  The H. maculata molted today.
  11/19/2000  Apparent success in cobalt blue breeding! Check out the breeding page for details!
Also, the A. urticans molted.
  11/18/2000  Curly #2, the C. fasciatum and P. fasciata molted.
  11/17/2000  Uploaded some pictures of the male and female H. lvidum and the breeding tank today, and added a breeding projects page.
  11/15/2000  A. versicolor #2, the A. huriana and Speck molted today!
  11/14/2000  P. rufilata #2, T. gigas, V. platyomma and H. gigas #2 molted today.
  11/13/2000  Boots and H. gigas #1 molted today.
  11/12/2000  The P. ornata, P. rufilata #1 and A. minatrix molted today.
  11/11/2000  The A. "braunshauseni" molted.
  11/09/2000  A. purpurea #2 molted.
  11/05/2000  The B. smithi molted.
  11/04/2000  The P. formosa molted.
  11/03/2000  A. purpurea #1 seems to have molted today.
  11/02/2000  The P. cambridgei molted today.
  11/01/2000  The P. regalis molted today!
  10/30/2000  The "Usambara" molted sometime in the past couple months, but I don't know when.
  10/29/2000  The A. avic finally molted.
  10/26/2000  The G. actaeon molted this morning.
The A. huriana, A. versicolor, C. fasciatum, H. gigas (plus a freebie of the same), H. maculata, S. g. robusta, and starter colony of N. cinerea lobster roaches arrived!
  10/25/2000  Added pictures and pages for the new arrivals.
The C. thorelli molted today.
  10/24/2000  Recieved Avicularia urticans and Hemiscolopendra marginata (Flordia blue centipede).
  10/23/2000  The P. pulcher molted today.
  10/19/2000  Uploaded new pictures of the P. regalis, P. formosa, A. purpurea, Curly #2 and the V.platyomma.
P. rufilata #2 molted late this evening.
  10/18/2000  The A. minatrix, P. fasciata and T. gigas all molted today!
  10/17/2000  The T. blondi molted this morning with no problems. The fang is partially repaired.
  10/16/2000  P. rufilata #1 molted today.
  10/14/2000  A. purpurea #2 molted this morning.
  10/11/2000  A. purpurea #1 and Curly #2 molted today.
  10/09/2000  Uploaded a buttload of new pictures. Check the recent pictures page.
  10/07/2000  The V. platyomma molted today.
  10/04/2000  The B. smithi molted this morning.
  09/29/2000  The P. cambridgei molted today.
  09/28/2000  The P. formosa molted today and from the skin appears to be male.
  09/25/2000  The T. gigas, A. "braunshauseni" and P. ornata molted today.
Bob shipped out for mating.
  09/23/2000  P. rufilata #2, the P. regalis and the P. pulcher and C. thorelli all molted today.
  09/21/2000  P. rufilata #1 molted today; it already looks awesome!
  09/19/2000  The A. avic and P. fasciata molted today.
  09/18/2000  The G. actaeon (Saturday?) and A. minatrix (Friday?) both molted while I was gone.
  09/13/2000  Speck molted.
  09/12/2000  Sparky shipped out this morning for mating!
Curly #2 molted.
  09/09/2000  The other A. purpurea (#2) molted today.
  09/07/2000  Kuni molted today. Oh man is she awesome!
  09/05/2000  One of the A. purpurea (#1) molted this morning.
  09/04/2000  The C. conuatus molted sometime in the last week or so.
  09/02/2000  Posted pictures and pages for the P. rufilata.
  09/01/2000  Picked up the P. rufilata - they're gorgeous!
  08/31/2000  Bob molted into a mature male today (well, he started late last night, but most of the molting occured early this morning technically).
Created pages for the P. pulcher and A. minatrix. The P. rufilata arrived but I wasn't around to recieve them so they're at the post office.
  08/30/2000  The A. minatrix and P. pulcher arrived today.
Uploaded lots of new pictures.
  08/29/2000  Boots molted today.
  08/28/2000  The B. smithi and V. platyomma molted today.
  08/27/2000  The C. thorelli and T. gigas molted today.
  08/26/2000  The P. cambridgei molted today.
  08/24/2000  The P. fasciata and P. formosa both molted. They grew a ton!
  08/23/2000  The Grinch molted.
  08/20/2000  The T. blondi had its molt this morning, and it wasn't a good one - details on the surgery performed (that may have saved its life) are in the diary.
  08/18/2000  The P. regalis molted today.
  08/17/2000  The A. avicularia and Curly #2 molted today.
  08/16/2000  The G. actaeon and P. ornata molted today.
  08/15/2000  The centipede may have molted.
  08/13/2000  The A. "braunshauseni" molted.
  08/11/2000  The H. lividum molted!
  08/10/2000  The two A. purpurea arrived today! Posted pages and pictures.
  08/07/2000  Filled in the pages for all the new spiders.
  08/06/2000  Uploaded 25 new pictures taken over the last few weeks (check the recent pictures section.)
  08/05/2000  The P. irminia molted today (or in the past few days).
  08/04/2000  The Scolopendra heros castaneiceps, Brachypelma smithi, Ceratogyrus cornuatus, Cyriopagopus thorelli, Poecilotheria fasciata and Tapinauchenius gigas arrived today from Arachnocentric.
  07/30/2000  The P. cambridgei molted today.
  07/29/2000  The V. platyomma molted very early this morning.
  07/28/2000  The P. formosa molted this morning.
  07/26/2000  Curly #2 molted today.
  07/24/2000  Tick left today to go breeding with the several females lined up for him.
  07/23/2000  Speck Molted.
  07/21/2000  The G. actaeon molted.
Determined that Tick is a MATURE MALE!
  07/20/2000  The P. regalis molted.
  07/19/2000  Sparky Molted (into a mature male).
  07/17/2000  The A. avicularia molted today.
I'm guessing that the P. ornata molted today, but it could have been a few days before.
  07/16/2000  The A. fracta molted this morning.
  07/15/2000  Uploaded lots of pictures of old spiders and new, and added pages for all tarantulas that didn't have one (there will be some mess until they all get tested).
  07/11/2000  G. actaeon, T. blondi, V. platyomma and a free B. albopilosum arrived.
  07/10/2000  Uploaded lots of pictures (some that were taken a while back too).
  07/09/2000  The P. cambridgei molted this morning and Tick molted late this evening (finally).
  07/08/2000  The A. "braunshauseni" molted this evening.
  07/05/2000  Boots molted (possibly yesterday or a few days ago.)
  06/26/2000  The P. regalis molted.
  06/25/2000  The A. fracta finally molted.
  06/24/2000  The P. ornata molted again already.
  06/22/2000  The A. avicularia molted early this morning.
Discovered P. cambridgei exuvum, probably molted on the 19th.
  06/20/2000  The P. formosa molted.
Posted new pictures of Speck.
  06/18/2000  Kuni molted, posted new pictures of same.
  06/16/2000  Speck Molted.
Added page for P. regalis and uploaded picture of freshly molted Raul.
  06/15/2000  Raul molted.
Added page for the A. "braunshauseni" and uploaded pix for it, the P. regalis and another for the P. irminia.
  06/11/2000  Added page for the A. fracta.
  06/11/2000  The A. "braunshauseni" molted.
  06/09/2000  Added pages for the P. cambridgei and P. formosa.
  06/08/2000  Added page for the P. ornata.
  06/07/2000  The P. regalis molted early this morning.
The new spiders (P. cambridgei, A. avicularia, A. fracta and P. formosa) arrived.
  06/04/2000  The P. ornata molted today.
  06/02/2000  Posted new picture of Speck.
  05/31/2000  Ordered a P. formosa, A. fracta, A. avicularia and P. cambridgei; they should arrive on Monday.
Made some page updates so that it would work better in Netscape.
  05/30/2000  The Grinch molted.
  05/27/2000  After Airborne Express botched the shipping, I finally got the three new spiders.
  05/25/2000  Added "recent pictures" section. Ordered a P. regalis, P. ornata and A. "braunshauseni".
  05/24/2000  Posted a new pic of Boots.
  05/23/2000  Posted some good new pictures of the Usambara, the P. irminia, Tick and Kuni.
  05/22/2000  Made lots of minor updates to the spider pages.
  05/19/2000  Uploaded a picture of the P. irminia.
Added pages for the cobalt, P. irminia and the Usambara.
  05/18/2000  Came too friggin' close to getting bit by the cobalt!
Uploaded some pix of the Cobalt and the Usambara.
  05/16/2000  Boots and Speck molted.
  05/14/2000  Purchased Haplopelma lividum, Psalmopoeus irminia and Pterinochilus sp. "Usambara" (orange).
  05/07/2000  The wolf spider babies have started to disperse, so I let them (and their mother) go.
  05/03/2000  The wolf spider babies have hatched!
  04/22/2000  Tick Molted.
  04/19/2000  Sparky molted.
Wolfie #2 produced an egg sack sometime recently.
  04/11/2000  Speck molted.
  04/07/2000  Kuni molted.
  04/04/2000  The grinch molted.
  04/03/2000  Raul molted. She is now "huge".
  04/01/2000  Boots molted. Her zig-zag things are no longer very visible.
  03/29/2000  The little wolf spider (posthumously named "Wolfie") kicked it for some reason.
  03/26/2000  Made some MAJOR updates to all of the spider pages and uploaded a ton of new pictures.
Added pages for Bob and Neutrino.
  03/06/2000  Made some updates to most of the spider pages.
  03/04/2000  Sparky molted some time early this morning.
Speck molted late this evening.
  03/01/2000  Tick Molted today (or perhaps yesterday?)
  02/20/2000  The moltings don't stop! Today (possibly yesterday night) was Kuni's turn.
  02/19/2000  Moltorama! Boots molted sometime early this morning.
  02/18/2000  The Grinch molted!
  02/17/2000  Retrieved Raul's skin (sexed clearly as female) and took some pictures.
  02/16/2000  Raul molted!
Made minor updates to lots of pages.
  02/09/2000  Purchased a Grammostolla rosea from a local pet shop.
  02/08/2000  Posted another picture of Tick and her pink abdomen.
  02/07/2000  Speck molted quite unexpectedly sometime early this morning.
Posted pictures of Speck's shed skin.
  02/06/2000  Named G. mollicoma "Sparky."
Made pages and uploaded pictures for new spiders and added a picture of Tick.
  02/05/2000  The Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (named speck) and Grammostolla mollicoma arrived today from West Coast Zoological.
  01/31/2000  Posted new pictures of Boots and Tick's exuva.
Made minor updates to most of the pages.
Named the A. geniculata "Kuni" and B. boehmei "Raul".
  01/27/2000  Posted new pictures of The Grinch (B. vagans) in her burrow.
  01/22/2000  Tick molted sucessfully at about 10:00 am this morning!
  01/21/2000  Purchased an adorable Brachypelma vagans spiderling from a local pet shop.
Posted page and pictures of the B. vagans and her enclosure.
  01/20/2000  Posted a new picture of the B. boehmei.
Boots is finally eating again.
  01/19/2000  Posted a picture of the B. boehmei and pictures of the new enclosures.
  01/18/2000  The Acanthoscurria geniculata and Brachypelma boehmei arrived in good shape!
Posted a page and a picture for the A. geniculata and a page for the B. boehmei.
  01/17/2000  Ordered Acanthoscurria geniculata and Brachypelma boehmei from Arachnocentric.
  01/11/2000  Boots molted with no apparent problems; I'll try to post pictures soon.
Updated Boots's page (including molting info), and made minor updates to Tick's page.
  01/04/2000  Updated Tick's page.
Both spiders seem to be fasting.
  12/12/1999  Posted new pictures of Tick, Boots and the new enclosures.
Updated Tick's and Boots's pages.
  11/27/1999  Posted picture of Tick's molted exoskeleton.
  11/22/1999  Philo/Tick molted. Tick will be the permanent name.
  11/15/1999  Retrieved Boots's exuva and posted pictures.
  11/14/1999  Early morning - Boots has molted without problems!
  11/13/1999  Two new pictures of Boots added to the photo album.
  11/10/1999  The A. versicolor will be named Philo unless I come up with something better.
  11/09/1999  Added the final picture of Ambush and a picture of the A. versicolor web to the photo album.
  11/08/1999  Ambush died a few days ago. The most likely cause was a molting problem. She will be missed.
  11/02/1999  Ambush emerges from her burrow and may be near a molt.
  10/24/1999  Named A. metallica "Boots" and wrote section for her.
Added pictures of enclosures for Boots and A. versicolor.
Updated A. versicolor page.
  10/21/1999  Wrote A. versicolor section added another picture of the same
  10/20/1999  Added "what's new" section (duh!)
Avicularia versicolor and Avicularia metallica arrived
Page rewritten for multi-spider support (-:
Pictures of the new spiders added to the photo album

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