Hi you shiny happy fabulous gogga keeping people

I thought a thread like this might be useful (particularly in passing on valuable experience to newbies)? What do you have experience in breeding? I notice that many of you pros only use scientific names - for the benefit of educating those new to this hobby, please include common names as well.

The only problem with common names is that its very misleading.

They get made, and changed at whim. Just a publicity/advertiser stunt.

Hence the Scientific names. That way you know at least exactly what you're working with.

Where possible I am sure people will try to assist.

I had a link with a table of scientific and common names somewhere. I'll see if I can find it again.

TH

I have successfully bred:
1. G.rosea
2. P.murinus (When they were still "legal")
3. P.campbridgei
4. P.ornata
5. H.lividum (Mom is still with the eggsac)
Waiting for P.formosa to make an eggsac.
Mating A.geniculata and C.cyaneopbescens
Soon to be mated:
1. T.ockerti
2. G.pulchra
3. P.sp. South Ecuador
4. P.nigricolor
5. P.metalica (In about two years )
Sorry for those that doesn't know these names, but it's the quickest way to learn them, when you don't have the common names.

www.tarantulas.co.za/forum/know-your-tar...a-known-common-names

Here's the link to the common name thread, but there seems to be nothing in it.

So far i have been lucky enough to have bred -

Brachypelma albopilosum
Brachypelma emilia
Brachypelma schroederi
Chilobrachys fimbriatus
Cyriopagopus schioedtei
Ephebopus murinus
Grammostola pulchripes
Harpactira sp. marksi
Harpactira sp. RBN
Harpactirella lightfooti
Heteroscodra maculata
Holothele incei
Ornithoctonus aureotibialis
Ornithoctonus sp. Koh Samui
Plesiophrictus sp. India
Poecilotheria subfusca
Psalmopoeus irminia
Yamia sp. Koh Samui

Hysterocrates sp. Cameroon - WC female that dropped a sac after a few months so not really a breeding as such.

Failed (eaten or infertile) sacs from -

Avicularia sp. Avicularia
Brachypelma auratum
Brachypelma boehmei
Brachypelma smithi
Cyriocosmus perezmilesi
Haplopelma lividum
Heterothele villosella
Holothele sp. Tachira
Orphnaecus sp. Sipalay
Selenocosmia peerboomi
Theraphosa apophysis