The Exotic Pet Collective

I reached out on social media and ask you all for suggestions for guests in upcoming podcast. I got a lot of great suggestions, but one person was OVERWHELMINGLY requested and that is who is on the podcast today. We discuss keeping tarantulas in the UK, conservation, making YouTube videos and a lot more.  Sit back, relax, and enjoy this conversation with Fiona from The Spare Room. 
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Todays guest is an actor, musician, Broadway star and maybe best known for being an original member of  Bravo network's Emmy award winning TV Show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. But he is on the podcast today because he is also an exotic pet keeper and enthusiast that shares his love and appreciation for these animals with his massive audience! So welcome to the show, Jai Rodriguez! We discuss how he got started keeping exotic pets, what it is like being a tarantula keeper in Hollywood, and much more!

Jai Rodriguez on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/JaiRodriguezfanpage
Jai Rodriguez on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jairodriguez/

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This week I am talking to Brian Barczyk about the NEW Animal Con USA event that is happening in Orlando, FL August 26th - 28th, 2022. This event will host all of the TOP animal content creators from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, FaceBook, Snapchat, & Television. AnimalConUSA is the only event of its kind and will give animal lovers a chance to meet their favorite animal personalities all in one place. The event takes place at the amazing Caribe Royal Resort, and all attendees will have access to their facilities including the outdoor fun and their sprawling pool and waterfalls. I am going  to be there and I hope I will get to meet you there as well!

For more information about AnimalCon USA: https://animalconusa.com/

Get 10% OFF the BEST Tarantula enclosures in the hobby NOW when you use the code TCOLLECTIVE10 at checkout!
https://www.tarantulacribs.com/

Check out Arthropod Ambassadors: https://www.arthropod-ambassadors.com/

💀Subscribe to the Exotic Pet Collective💀 on YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qeXoZIdygzTvxbPIdnaLQ

💥SUBSCRIBE💥 to my main channel and see more videos about keeping 🕷tarantulas🕷:
    https://goo.gl/UAySKx

If you'd like to support the channel:
Patreon: 
   https://www.patreon.com/The_Tarantula_Collective

🕷👀Visit My Website👀🕷: https://www.thetarantulacollective.com/

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This week I am talking to Nick who owns Gecko Galaxy based out of Huntington, WV. He is a crested gecko breeder and dealer and gives some insight into how he found himself on this path and what it is like to breed and sell crested geckos.

Gecko Galaxy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nick.geckogalaxy/
Gecko Galaxy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GeckoGalaxyChannel

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I sit down with Phil Goss who is the President of the United States Association of Reptile Keepers, also know as USARK. We discuss the new Lacey Act Amendment in the America Competes Act and how it will impact the Exotic Pet Hobby as a whole. He also gives us updates on new developments and how best to move forward as a hobby.

Q: Does this include invertebrates?

Yes. We know that aquatic invertebrates are included. While the legislation does not mention terrestrial invertebrates, FWS can regulate terrestrial invertebrates (i.e., Endangered Species Act), and terrestrial invertebrates are included in the FWS definition of wildlife:

“Wildlife is any living or dead wild animal, its parts, and products made from it. Wildlife not only includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but also invertebrates such as insects, crustaceans, arthropods, molluscs and coelenterates.” – FWS

Also, within the Lacey Act the term “fish or wildlife” means: any wild animal, whether alive or dead, including without limitation any wild mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, coelenterate, or other invertebrate, whether or not bred, hatched, or born in captivity, and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof.

www.USARK.org
www.facebook.com/UnitedStatesAssociationOfReptileKeepers


You can watch the video version of this podcast on The Exotic Pet Collective YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/ZqM--dnqIRk

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This week I am talking to Bill Strand who is the host of the Reptile Entrepreneur and Chameleon Academy Podcasts., founder of the Dragon Strand chameleon caging company and headmaster at Chameleonacademy.com. We discuss how you can turn your hobby and passion for exotic pets (like reptiles, tarantulas, etc) into a full time career and how the courses he offers on Instagram, as well as on his website, can help you build a social media following all the way up to launching your online businesses. Whether it is breeding, making enclosures, creating content, or any aspect or niche where you find a need....he can help you and show you how to turn your exotic pet hobby into a business!

Reptile Entrepreneur on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/reptileentrepreneur/

Reptile Entrepreneur website:
https://reptileentrepreneur.com/

Reptile Entrepreneur on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdRtzn0HE6FilUbTaO37zg

Reptile Entrepreneur on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/reptileentrepreneur

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Today we are talking to Dr. Linda Rayor from the Entemology Department at Cornell University who has spent most of her career studying Social Behavior in spiders like the Huntsman Spider. She also studies communal tarantula species like the Monocentropus balfouri, Neoholothele incei and Hysterocrates gigas. We even discuss Amblypygi like the Tailless Whip Scorpion and how someone becomes an arachnologist!

Request Naturalist Outreach Presentations by Cornell students
https://blogs.cornell.edu/naturalistoutreach/presentations/request-a-presentation/

https://exhibits.library.cornell.edu/arachnophilia

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This week I sit down with Laura Airey Le the artist of Gray Ghost Creations to talk about her tarantula art as well as the other unique wildlife she illustrates. Of course the conversation also strays into what species of tarantula and other exotic pets she keeps, where she draws inspiration, what art supplies she uses, and even a little sci fi love is shared. I had a great time having this interesting conversation and I hope you enjoy listening.

Gray Ghost Creations on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GrayGhostCreations
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GrayGhostCreations
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gray_ghost_creations

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Tarantula Kat drops by the podcast this week to talk about how she began keeping tarantulas and spiders and the origin story behind starting her YouTube channel. We also discuss her her love for frogs and toadstools as well as toxic comments on social media and misogyny and sexism in the exotic pet hobby. Mainly we just laugh a lot at each other. 

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Did you know there are snake and exotic pet rescues out there that take in animals that are surrendered, captured, confiscated, abandoned or neglected? Then rehabilitate them and find them new homes to adopt them?  I am talking about snakes, geckos, tarantulas, bearded dragons, boas, ball pythons, scorpions, and MORE! Listen to this conversation I had with Keith from Herps Alive where he tells us all about his non-profit rescue, how they came to be, what they do, and how we can all help with their worthy cause! Below I have some information linked if you would like to contact them and learn EVEN MORE!

  SUPPORT Herps Alive through GoFundMe (all donations handled by GoFundMe.com and will be sent directly from them to Herps Alive): https://gofund.me/ba73d4c0

  email: [email protected]
  facebook: https://www.facebook.com/herpsalive
  website: http://herpsalive.org/
  phone number: (216) 374-1392
  address: 1487 Garden Dr, South Euclid, OH 44121

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