Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[tandykins]

Fancy, I don't think I'd like your husbands job... Although, playing with explosives can be fun... I wish we would have had more of that sort of training in the military. It was really cool to build bomb strike simulations for live ammo shooting practices.

I wonder how a package that says "Live Spiders" gets treated in the post office...

Usually they're not marked at all, just sent via express post in a box with some holes in it. I ship insects and get them shipped to me regularly. Live fish too!

 

[Fancychooklady]

Fancy, I don't think I'd like your husbands job... Although, playing with explosives can be fun... I wish we would have had more of that sort of training in the military. It was really cool to build bomb strike simulations for live ammo shooting practices.

I wonder how a package that says "Live Spiders" gets treated in the post office...

I'm guessing with a little more care than fertile eggs.

 

[vehve]

I don't think I would trust the post with fish.

 

[Steampunked]

I've ordered fish through the post - mustard gas bettas. They were fine! I heard that some folks getting upset with egg deliveries being broken wrote: 'Fragile - medical samples' and put on a hazard symbol.

 

[ChristieB]

Tandy glad to see another rat person! I've got some 1.5 week old rats that are showing some nice spots, infact it's the most colour I've had in the one litter yet! Usually it's one or 2 black ones and the rest pew.
They are as far as I know just run if the mill lab rats, originally intended to breed for snake feed (which they still are) Ive never been a into rodents, but I have got a little attatched to the little buggers, and babies are just adorable! I refuse to let hubby take the coloured ones for the snakes, they are sold as pets (which is hard because while getting them used to handling I get even more attatched to them and I don't want to give them up lol) I just bought myself a cute little boy to be my next stud and mix up the gene pool, he's a bit of a sweety

 

[birdman55]

Looks a bit like aviary wire?

I'm curious though how long any wire will last? I don't know when ours lost it's strength but we didn't get ten years, it's quite easily brittle when we hit the old buried stuff.

they sell online coated chicken wire... the hardware cloth is very reliable...the peafowl breeder I know got some pcv coated chicken wire and has used it for ten years and there is no rust on it...so hope this helps...however when using chicken wire any critter can chew thru it cause it is not thick enough...so either use 2x4 inch thick wire and then place the pvc coated chicken wire or use the hardware cloth...most people I know bury fencing wire...cause its thicker and lasts longer then anything else they have used....

 

[appps]

I feel I should point out that I breed Huntsman spiders and if you get some real whoppers - put them in a takeaway container with holes and post them to me!  I love them! 


...there might be something wrong with me.

I am not going to disagree with you lol.

I have never understood people who just put them outside either, guys you know they are coming back in as soon as you turn your back!!
Oh and then those that insist on telling you they don't bit, ummm yep they do, it's up there with a wasp sting. Owwww

I kill those and white tips, I do breed daddy long legs though, much more my kinda spider lol

 

[appps]

they sell online coated chicken wire... the hardware cloth is very reliable...the peafowl breeder I know got some pcv coated chicken wire and has used it for ten years and there is no rust on it...so hope this helps...however when using chicken wire any critter can chew thru it cause it is not thick enough...so either use 2x4 inch thick wire and then place the pvc coated chicken wire or use the hardware cloth...most people I know bury fencing wire...cause its thicker and lasts longer then anything else they have used....

The PVC coated sound a better idea. Would imagine it's very expensive though.

 

[tandykins]

I am not going to disagree with you lol.

I have never understood people who just put them outside either, guys you know they are coming back in as soon as you turn your back!!
Oh and then those that insist on telling you they don't bit, ummm yep they do, it's up there with a wasp sting. Owwww

I kill those and white tips, I do breed daddy long legs though, much more my kinda spider lol

Actually - in many cases, putting a spider you find in your house outside IS killing it. Spiders that we identify as "house spiders" require a lot of shelter and are ill suited to being outside. They might find shelter in a shed or under a piece of furniture but out in the grass? Certain death.

Generally when I find a spider in my house - provided it's not a white tail or something worse - I just leave it alone. Huntsman spiders are aggressive predators that take out the other spiders in the house. Good job guys! Keep up the good work! I usually have 3-4 large huntsman spiders wandering around in my kitchen. They're highly beneficial and I see moving them away as completely illogical.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Actually - in many cases, putting a spider you find in your house outside IS killing it. Spiders that we identify as "house spiders" require a lot of shelter and are ill suited to being outside.  They might find shelter in a shed or under a piece of furniture but out in the grass? Certain death.  

Generally when I find a spider in my house - provided it's not a white tail or something worse - I just leave it alone.  Huntsman spiders are aggressive predators that take out the other spiders in the house.  Good job guys! Keep up the good work!  I usually have 3-4 large huntsman spiders wandering around in my kitchen.  They're highly beneficial and I see moving them away as completely illogical.  

Eww, you can keep that. Whilst I know that a huntsman can't kill me directly, indirectly the heart attack I have when I wake up with him on my face will.