Skeeter enjoys the mood lighting in her blinged-out terrarium.
A few years ago, my friend Simon mail-ordered a Mexican fire leg tarantula. She arrived in a vial as a wee spiderling, but after several molts and a steady diet of crickets, she measures five and a half inches across. “Skeeter” lives in a terrarium in the middle of Simon’s coffee table.
This got me curious about people who choose to raise venomous bugs as pets. Why would someone rear a scorpion instead of a tabby cat or a Labrador retriever? In pursuit of a story on this topic for a magazine, I visited the offices of Tarantulas.com in Edmonds, Washington to see how these bugs are born and bred.
I took this video of my visit to the land of the creepy-crawlies. Enjoy the hair rising on the back of your neck!
Good post. I will be going through a few of these issues as well..