Middle aged, happily married, father and grandfather who loves nature and all it offers from a bugs point of view.

A wide variety of tarantulas, some more species of scorpions and centipedes. My wishlist is expanding.

Taking care of my reptiles & inverts collection. In my spare time I like to socialize on Twitter, Facebook, posting new content to my blog, upload video content of my reptiles & inverts to YouTube. Listening to music from the 60's-current, watching dvd's. Solving Soduko & Trizm puzzles.

Web Design, Computing, breeding Bearded Dragons, Tarantulas, Scorpions, Roaches (4 sp), and worms (2 sp), Computer program troubleshooter, former Poolman for 20 years.

To many to list. I enjoy movies and music of all kinds. I have a large collection both. Music ranges from the 60's up and most genre. Action, horror and comedies are my top movie genre.

My Current Tarantula Collection (49):
0.0.1 Acanthoscurria Geniculata
0.0.1 Aphonopelma Paysoni
0.0.1 Aphonopelma seemani
0.0.1 Avicularia avicularia
0.1.12 Brachypelma smithi
0.0.1 Brachypelma sabulosum
0.0.1 Brachypelma vagans
0.0.12 Chilobrachys andersonii
0.0.1 Citharischius crawshayi
0.0.1 Ephebopus uatuman
0.0.1 Grammostola pulchripes (formerly aureostriata)
1.1.0 Grammostola rosea
0.1.0 Haplopelma lividum
0.0.1 Hysterocrates gigas
0.0.1 Lasiodora difficilis
0.2.1 Lasiodora parahybana
0.0.1 Nhandus chromatus
0.0.2 Pterinochilus murinus
0.0.1 Pterinochilus lugardi
0.1.0 Sericopelma rubronitens

Scorpions (31):
1.1.14 Centruroides sculpturatus (Arizona Bark Scorpion)
0.0.3 Babycurus jacksoni
0.0.6 Heterometrus spiniferis (Asian Forest Scorpion)
1.1.0 Pandinus imperator (Emperor Scorpion)
0.0.1 Smeringurus Mesaensis


Feeders for all the above (priceless):
Mealworms, Superworms, Waxworms
Blaberus discoidalis (Discoids)
Blaptica dubia (Guyana Orange Spotted Roach)
Blatta lateralis (Turkistan or Red Runner Roach)
Blaberus fusca (Dwarf Cave Roach)

Pterinochilus lugardi arrived gravid and gave me a clutch of eggs. Success, click here to watch video and read more...


UPDATE 8.19.09: Egg sack hatched. Unknown # of slings as of yet. Updates to follow.





Centruroides sculpturatus gave birth to 14 little ones. click here to watch video and read more...

Pterinochilus lugardi slings

Tarantulas:
Acanthoscurria atrox - Brazilian Giant Black
Acanthoscurria brocklehursti - Brazilian black and white
Acanthoscurria chacoana - Bolivian Salmon Pink aka Bolivian redrump
Acanthoscurria juruenicola - Matto Grosso Salmon/Brazilian Orange Banded
Acanthoscurria sp. "Bolivia" - Bolivian Giant Bird Eater

Aphonopelma-anax - Texas Tan
Aphonopelma behlei - Grand Canyon Black
Aphonopelma bicoloratum - Mexican Bloodleg
Aphonopelma chalcodes - Desert Blond
Aphonopelma sp. (FO) - Flagstaff Orange
Aphonopelma hentzi - Oklahoma Brown
Aphonopelma iodius - Fresno County Brown
Aphonopelma moderatum - Rio Grande gold
Aphonopelma sp.(NMB) - New Mexico Blond
Aphonopelma waconum - Copperas Cove Brown
Aphonopelma wichitanum - Wichita Mountain Red

Brachypelma albiceps (ruhnaui) - Mexican Golden Redrump
Brachypelma albopilosum - Curly Hair
Brachypelma angustum - Costa Rican Red
Brachypelma annitha - Mexican Giant Orange Knee
Brachypelma auratum - Mexican Flameknee
Brachypelma baumgarteni's - Mexican Orange Beauty's
Brachypelma boehmei - Mexican Fire leg
Brachypelma emilia - Mexican Redleg
Brachypelma klaasi - Mexican Pink
Brachypelma sabulosum - Guatemalan Redrump
Brachypelma schroderi - Mexican midnight blue
Brachypelma verdezi - Mexican Rose Grey

Chilobrachys sp. (all)

Eupalaestrus campestratus - Pink Zebra Beauty

Grammostola acteon - Brazilian Wooly Redrump
Grammostola sp "Formosa" - Formosa/ Paraguay White Hair
Grammostola pulchra - BlackieHi Yall ! Brazilian Black
Grammostola rosea red phase - Red form rose hair

Haplopelma minax - Thailand Black
haplopelma schmidti - Chinese bird spider

Lasiodora fracta
Lasiodora itabunae
Lasiodora klugii - Scarlet Birdeater
Lasiodorides polycuspulatus
Lasiodora striatipes - Bahia Gray Birdeater

Megaphobema robustum - Colombian Giant Redleg

Monocentropus balfouri -

Nhandu coloratovillosus - Brazilian Black and White
Nhandu vulpinus - Brazilian Giant Blond

Pamphobeteus antinous - Bolivian Steely Blue Leg
Pamphobeteus sp. - Santo Domingo Goliath - Up to 11.5", rare
Pamphobeteus nigricolor - Blue bloom tarantula

Phormictopus cancerides - Haitian Brown

Poecilotheria metallica - Gooty Sapphire Ornamental
(When price right!)

Psalmopoeus reduncas - Orangemouth Tree Spider

Pterinochilus chordatus - Kilimanjaro mustard baboon

Theraphosa blondi - Goliath Birdeater

Scorpions:
Centruroides vittatus
Heterometrus longimanus
Centruroides gracilis - Florida Bark Scorpion

Below are various websites I use to communicate with family/friends. You want to socialize, upload photos, post meaningful content, etc...these sites are how I do all of that.

Updated Wednesday, August 05, 2009

• My Blog
  This is a blog I created to give people in general a place to read/view my world of reptiles and inverts (invertebrates). This is my way to educate people about how reptiles and inverts can be make great pets. I have found it also helps individuals with phobias.
  
  
  
• FriendFeed
  FriendFeed is another socializing tool in my arsenal of websites. FriendFeed combines most of the sites below in one. Check it out and comment your thoughts.
  
  
  
• Twitter
  I use Twitter to socialize and make new friends. Follow me on Twitter to keep up to date with what's happening in my life.
  
  
  
• YouTube
  This where I upload all my videos I make in relationship to my animals. Check out the videos, SUBSCIBE to my channel. If you like the videos, share them with others.
  
  
  
• My Google site
  This is a website I originally created to link more photos from my various despositories. After I realized what I could do, I started adding some of the same content that appears on my blog.You can see my profile on Google here. It contains more links, additional photos, little tid bits here and there.
  
  
  
• Flickr
  A place to store and redistibute my photos from.
  
  
  
• PhotoBucket
  Another place to store and redistibute my photos from.
  
  
  
• Greg's Desert Draons & Inverts Web Store
  I created this free website for future selling of my dragons and various other inverts.
  
  
  
• MySpace
  We all know MySpace. I use it mainly for storing photos. Not much socializing there, much prefer Facebook for that.
  
  
  
• Join Greg's Inverts
  This is a group I created under FriendFeed. This group is for anyone who is an invert enthusiast like myself. Join and post your own content and photos of your inverts. Hope to see you there!
  
  

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UPDATE 8.19.09: Pterinochilus lugardi Egg sack hatched. Unknown # of slings as of yet. Success, click here to watch video and read more....


Greg's Reptiles & Inverts blog updated almost daily. You can find care sheets, tutorials, videos and more...


My latest tarantula feeding video. See more of my videos on YouTube.