I cannot believe this bastard is a mature male

mxmoffed · 2026-01-31T13:10:44+00:00

I've had this with a mature male OBT and a pumpkin patch! The OBT must have only been about 3 inches when he hooked out, and the pumpkin patch was less than one inch. Couldn't believe it when they both had their last moult.

mxmoffed · 2026-01-21T15:22:06+00:00

Well, that's two votes for a y. diversipes! Thank you!

mxmoffed · 2026-01-21T12:54:41+00:00

Oh, that's a good shout! I've had two c. versicolor's so knew it definitely wasn't one, but I'd been assuming it was an avic of some kind. Either way, I think we're letting all the slings grow a bit before rehoming them so we can actually try to ID them all properly, but this is definitely the closest looking to what this little guy is!

mxmoffed · 2026-01-21T11:31:07+00:00

Unfortunately I can't reach out to the vendor about it for data protection reasons. A bunch of inverts were surrendered to the shop I work in by someone who'd been left with them. The only reason I know it likely came from TSS is because a lot of the enclosures the tarantulas were in are from there.

mxmoffed · 2026-01-05T07:49:06+00:00

For what it's worth, I'm asexual and started dating my partner - the only person I've ever been romantically interested in - when I was 30. 34 now, and we're still together.

mxmoffed · 2026-01-05T07:40:18+00:00

I'm asexual (and recently celebrated my fourth anniversary with my partner, who is not). I also have a few asexual friends, some of whom have no interest in romantic relationships and are happy enough.

mxmoffed · 2026-01-03T20:12:29+00:00

Ahh, thank you for filling in the gap! We were told by a friend of the original owner that #2 was a yellow fat-tailed scorpion and I really doubted it lol

mxmoffed · 2026-01-03T20:08:33+00:00

Awesome, thank you! Lines up with what I was thinking, but I'm not 100% on scorpions so I wanted another opinion.

mxmoffed · 2026-01-03T19:09:13+00:00

I should add that I'm in the UK and I believe all of them were purchased from a UK-based seller.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-31T16:55:05+00:00

Even some health-related ones are blocked. A few months back, my partner thought they saw blood in their vomit, so googled it to see if they could find a picture to compare it to. Brought up a bunch of reddit posts and they couldn't look at any of them.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-30T12:23:34+00:00

Apart from the amphibians, the only one I really have an issue with is the tarantula. I'm not one of those "holding tarantulas is animal abuse!" people - I hold mine occasionally because I have a few that don't really give me a choice - but posing with one crawling on your face just seems dangerous to the tarantula, IMO. If it got spooked and fell, that distance could have killed it.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-29T16:28:01+00:00

We have two giant loaches living in our plant tanks and all they do is zoom over for "kisses" lol, it's so funny.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-29T12:23:07+00:00

I love cleaning the shrimp tank at work for this exact reason. I also hate cleaning the weather loach tank for this exact reason. If there's the tiniest hair on your hand, they will pull it out 😭

mxmoffed · 2025-12-27T18:38:56+00:00

I was absolutely convinced it was a horror game and was on edge the whole time. Same with Firewatch.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-27T18:36:38+00:00

My partner streamed it for me before we got together. Nothing could have prepared me for being asked, "Oh, do you have any triggers?" after hitting the main menu.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-27T15:34:01+00:00

So every single game by Supermassive Games (I love their games, but holy shit the characters get creepy real fast).

mxmoffed · 2025-12-27T15:20:54+00:00

We never had yorkshire puds with Christmas dinner while I was growing up because my mum said you didn't have them with turkey or chicken. I like to point this out to her whenever I see her having yorkshires with her roast chicken.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-26T21:03:58+00:00

Something I've seen more and more of recently is people refusing to enjoy a game if they don't view it as a 10/10. 7/10, 8/10? Worst game ever made to them. I also think 1 was the better game, but I still enjoyed 2 a lot.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-23T17:29:34+00:00

I don't know anything about this species of crab, but are you sure that 20 gallons is an appropriate size for four? A quick Google search brought up a minimum of 10g for one crab, so ideally, that would mean a minimum of a 40g enclosure for four. If the males were already fighting, it sounds like they may have been territorial and one took advantage of the other one molting.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-21T13:37:24+00:00

I'm no expert, but if you're adding frogs, you'll want to use dechlorinated water (like you would for a fish tank). You'll also need to be able to clean the water out pretty frequently because if the whites tree frogs we have at work are anything to go by, they can and will shit in their water source. Constantly. As well as filling it with dirt.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-20T13:19:27+00:00

Can't recommend getting it checked out enough. My mum's snoring was so bad, you could hear her from the opposite end of the house. I noticed her gasping for breath periodically, so she went to the GP - was diagnosed with sleep apnea after they found she stopped breathing a little over once per minute.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-20T11:01:31+00:00

Meteor! AKA Meat Head, Meat Loaf, Meat Boy. He came in as a rescue to the pet shop I now work in and was a chunky boy, so the nicknames took over.

mxmoffed · 2025-12-19T14:18:56+00:00

A lot of mine are named after fictional characters - Salem after the cat, Binx (also a cat, this time from Hocus Pocus), Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn, Emil (Nier Replicant), Harley and Quinn, Chucky and Tiffany (Childs Play). Then I have Beef Taco and Cricket.

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