About Us
Who We AreWe're a small (but growing) "Mom & Pop" operation born out of a loving marriage and a passion for great customer service. We DEMAND that we give our customers the best possible "critters" in the best possible health. We strive to have a large selection, but please drop us an email if there is something in particular you are looking for - this is one of the ways we figure out what arachnids are in demand.
We're located in Goose Creek, SC, a suburb of Charleston. We don't have a "storefront" or location that can be visited, but check out our calendar page to see a list of shows where we'll be vending! Thank you for your interest, Erik & Amanda Wisniewski (pronounced Wiz-Nes-Ski) Pinchers & Pokies Exotics, LLC OUR CURRENT WANT LIST: - Large male or fresh penultimate male Nhandu chromatus - Wholesale lots of Damon Diadema "Tanzania" or other Tail-less Whip Scorpions - Wholesale lots of most scorpions We are always interested in wholesale pricing on your critters - just contact us and we can talk about purchase/trades! |
Our HistoryPinchers & Pokies Exotics, LLC is a small business run by a husband-and-wife team that we started in October of 2012.
My wife (then fiancé) asked if she could bring her son’s tarantulas over to my house to keep them safe. I set the five of them up in my spare bedroom, aka computer room. When I came home from work and was surfing the net, I found myself leaning back in the chair watching the T’s instead of actually working on the computer. At first I was skittish about feeding them and messing with the roaches she’d bring over, and I’d make her do it. I found it fascinating to watch them stalk and attack the roaches! A few months later she took me to a Repticon in Charlotte, NC, and we came home with a bunch of slings. Let the addiction begin! At the next Repticon, in Columbia, SC we came home with a bunch of scorpions, including a few Emperors and a few Desert Hairys, and now we had some new pets! I simply can’t say no to my amazing wife, so we’ve now amassed a bit of a menagerie of different critters. We seem to like to try out new ones to determine the positives and negatives and each one, and also because when my wife says “awwww” I seem to whip out my wallet. We have (or have had) three cats, three dogs, African pygmy hedgehogs, Blue-bar Panther chameleons, Jackson’s chameleons, Veiled chameleons, pet rats, Columbian Tegus, Sugar Gliders plus various frogs, geckos, skinks, ball pythons, red mountain boas, Rainbow Boas, Kenyan Sand Boas, centipedes, millipedes, and now ferrets. The only thing I’ve said “no” to are baby squirrels and Cayman gators. But our first love remains our true love: tarantulas, scorpions and other arachnids. We have a few long-term and short-term goals in our business plan and are are exploring the species we like. Personally, I really enjoy the GBB’s, Poeci’s and Nhandu’s. We keep detailed records of where and when we purchase everything so that we will not be breeding siblings or cousins. Therefore we may only sell one or two of each species at a time, should we only have purchased a few at one shot. We are breeding for strong stock as much as possible and we’ve had a few success stories already. Personally, I love doing research, and I have been working on a GIANT spreadsheet project with as much information as I can find for EVERY tarantula and scorpion. A bit ambitious, huh? We plan on creating and constantly improving upon care sheets for our arachnids. We're constantly researching and discovering new stuff about our arachnids, and we love talking to other "arachnid passionate" people. |