Either today or tomorrow I get a cute little wolf spider from Vez. I cannot wait to meet it. I am setting up the house for it this weekend and naming it Velkan. The only thing is they are fast, it should be an adventure to try to transfer it to the new container. Hmmmm. Greg is coming over tonight...maybe I should have him do it.
Anyway I will take pictures...I have a round KK type of enclosure, I think it was made actually for amphibians or something. I am putting in a little peat and some fake "grass" type of plants. Around here that is what they build thier webs in.

I gots lots of big Hogna around here, Miss Tabbie dear. If you like wolfies I'll try to get some to you, because I like to make you happy.

I seen the spider KJ is sending you, pretty cool. Some neighbor kids were ringing my doorbell a couple of Saturday's ago and brought me a good sized wolfie. We ended up keeping it. Actually big enough to keep in a mini KK. Been feeding and watering it on the same schedule as the T's. I'll try to get a couple of pics. It's about the size of a 50 cent piece. Cool patterns on it.

Well my wolfie showed up yesterday...he didn't make it. With the holiday and all there was a huge delay in the shipping. Needless to say no more true spiders. They are better in the wild anyways.

Sorry Vez.

[quote="Kari McWest"]I gots lots of big Hogna around here, Miss Tabbie dear. If you like wolfies I'll try to get some to you, because I like to make you happy.]

What species exactly? I love wolfs...

Aw, Tabbie... I'm sorry. It sucks to lose one in the mail. Really, really sucks.

Yeah I am bummed...the packaging was 100% fantastic...In fact I kept the box and packaging in case I need to ship something. I just think he was in there too long. *Sigh* makes me sad. These things happen but it doesn't make them any better. Thanks Jen.

Sorry to hear that Tab.

Hi Steve,

It is ok...I am pretty much over it. I think true spiders are a bit different then T's anyways and best in the wild...Don't ask where that line of thought comes from. Anyways Isabella will cheer me up today! Thanks again for sending her to me...I can't wait to meet her.

Sorry to hear that it didn't make it Tabbie. The post office told em it would arrive there by Friday, I don't know why it took so long to get there. If I had realized there was a holiday in there I would have waited before I shipped. That 1 day might have made the difference. I guess I should have planned better, sorry.

I don't think it was your fault at all. I had no idea there was a holiday either until someone told me on Monday it was. Sadie was in school, everyone I know was working...I had no clue. That was also excellent packing by the way. Good job on that!!! I think it was just a little snafu that holds no blame.

Ive had 0% luck shipping true spiders too, theyre just hard to keep alive in the mail, period. Most people who ship true spiders have a 50-60% death rate. They just dont do well. Your best bet is to just capture one yourself and immediately take it home and set it up just how you found it.

Well, in my experience it's not all that doom and gloom in regards to shipping true spiders. I have received in the mail Phidippus clarus, audax, regius, &
octopunctatus. Hogna carolinensis, Heteropoda venatoria, Dolomedes gertschi,Peucetia veridans etc. with 100% success. I live in Georgia and these true spiders have come to me from as close as Florida to as far as California. So, while I agree with Steve-O that it is cool to collect your own and set it up. For those of us that can't get as easily some species in their own locale sending/receiving true spiders through the mail is not a bad option at all.