Behold... Pure excellence. Carey Plume Agate

[realrockhound]

For those of you who dont know... the only times you see plumes of Carey to this grade are in museum collections. Or well.... in my collection lol

[pebblesky]

That is stunning and surreal. You should consider starting a personal museum one day, with backlit equipments and magnifiers, and some security guards

[Rockoonz]

It's beginning to look like your collection is a freakin museum.
That is very cool, showed Elizabeth and she about fell over.

[Rockoonz]

You should set up a photo studio and make up a coffee table book or 3 like Hans Gamma.

[chris1956]

Stunning is the word!

[realrockhound]

Mar 11, 2024 12:28:29 GMT -5 Rockoonz said:

You should set up a photo studio and make up a coffee table book or 3 like Hans Gamma.

Not even kidding. I got stuff that would make Hans gamma crap his pants 😂. But I do like your idea. I really want to organize stuff better and turn the tarantula room into the museum room. Or at minimum make a book like Hans gamma.

[rockbrain]

Mar 11, 2024 12:36:51 GMT -5 realrockhound said:

Mar 11, 2024 12:28:29 GMT -5 Rockoonz said:

You should set up a photo studio and make up a coffee table book or 3 like Hans Gamma.

Not even kidding. I got stuff that would make Hans gamma crap his pants 😂. But I do like your idea. I really want to organize stuff better and turn the tarantula room into the museum room. Or at minimum make a book like Hans gamma.

Beautiful plume, but what really got my attention was the tarantula room.  Care to elaborate?

[realrockhound]

Mar 11, 2024 14:54:28 GMT -5 rockbrain said:

Mar 11, 2024 12:36:51 GMT -5 realrockhound said:

Not even kidding. I got stuff that would make Hans gamma crap his pants 😂. But I do like your idea. I really want to organize stuff better and turn the tarantula room into the museum room. Or at minimum make a book like Hans gamma.

Beautiful plume, but what really got my attention was the tarantula room.  Care to elaborate?

Oh.. yeah. So a side hobby of mine is collecting invertibrates/exotics. I had a lot more, but some matured out as males (they dont live long after that) and a couple just died. Got 20 different varieties of tarantuals on display in that room. One 8-inch scorpion, and snakes and lizards in there too. They tend to spend time mostly in there burrows. But just went back to snag a pic of a couple that were out. All ranging from juvenile to adult. The green trindad chevron (te one on the log) will get around 8-inches. Some of these are older pics as well. 

Arizona Blonde. Mature female


 
Honduran curly hair. Mature female


Blue leg baboon. Africa. Bite from this lil bugger will land you in the hospital lol



Chaco golden knee. Argentina



Green bottle Blue. Venezuela 



Trinidad chevron. Trinidad

[Rockoonz]

Rox and Spyders, now that might make a nice book.
See the blonds all the time over by lake pleasant, they seem to enjoy climbing up arms when given the invite.

[khara]

If you combine your tarantula collection with your rock collection you pretty much wouldn’t have to worry about a security system.

[pebblesky]

Mar 11, 2024 16:33:02 GMT -5 khara said:

If you combine your tarantula collection with your rock collection you pretty much wouldn’t have to worry about a security system.

Exactly my thought

[realrockhound]

Mar 11, 2024 16:25:51 GMT -5 Rockoonz said:

Rox and Spyders, now that might make a nice book.
See the blonds all the time over by lake pleasant, they seem to enjoy climbing up arms when given the invite.

Thats a mature male. and a big one at that. The males are the ones you usually see out and about. They mature then normally die within a season. 

[rockbrain]

I like the hairy one! I've kept a few. I don't what kind they were. Whatever is found locally in the CA foothills.

[realrockhound]

Mar 11, 2024 17:23:59 GMT -5 rockbrain said:

I like the hairy one! I've kept a few. I don't what kind they were. Whatever is found locally in the CA foothills.

Probably some variation of Aphonopelma Sp. More likely Aphonopelma californicum. 

[titaniumkid]

Came for the rocks. Stayed for the spiders. They are like bristly eight-legged teddy bears! Are they hard to keep?

[realrockhound]

Mar 11, 2024 18:04:41 GMT -5 titaniumkid said:

Came for the rocks. Stayed for the spiders. They are like bristly eight-legged teddy bears! Are they hard to keep?

extremely easy to keep. But there are beginner and advanced species. Never start with oldworlds. The bites are excruciatingly painful.

[titaniumkid]

Turns out we can't keep exotic tarantulas in Aus

If you ever make a rocks and spiders book, I'd be interested.

[rockjunquie]

You had me on the plume.... Normally, I hate spiders, but tarantulas are the exception. I like the curly haired one.

[RWA3006]

Mar 11, 2024 12:36:51 GMT -5 realrockhound said:

Mar 11, 2024 12:28:29 GMT -5 Rockoonz said:

You should set up a photo studio and make up a coffee table book or 3 like Hans Gamma.

Not even kidding. I got stuff that would make Hans gamma crap his pants 😂. But I do like your idea. I really want to organize stuff better and turn the tarantula room into the museum room. Or at minimum make a book like Hans gamma.

I collect stuff too and plan to make a coffee table book about coprolite someday. Takes a lot of money to do a book with great photos so I'm looking into doing a digital book. You ought to also. I think some of the best collections reside in private hands and it would be excellent if they were documented so we could enjoy them in the easy chair with the laptop.

[Rockoonz]

When I was on Camp Pendleton in the Marines saw a lot of what I think were Mexican Red legs, at the truck school in Horno some mornings there would be maybe a dozen or two on the grass lawn between the barracks buildings.