Eighth Element

12/29/2025

🕷️ Happy Monday from the nursery!
Our Vitalius chromatus spiderlings are growing up fast—tiny legs, big attitudes, and a whole lot of personality packed into each one. Nature never takes a day off, and neither do we.

12/27/2025

Who can resist those eight-eyed glances and fuzzy pink toes?
Jumping spiders bring the sass, pinktoes bring the elegance—and both bring the cuteness overload.

Whether they’re peeking from a flower or tiptoeing across their enclosure, these little wonders are proof that arachnids aren’t just fascinating… they’re downright adorable.

🕷️ Come meet the cuties in person. Warning: you might fall in love.

12/25/2025

12/24/2025

🎄 Holiday Hours Update 🎄
We’ll be OPEN on Christmas Eve until 6:00 PM—perfect for last-minute gifts, feeder pickups, or a cozy visit before the holiday!

🎁 We will be CLOSED on Christmas Day to rest, recharge, and spend time with loved ones.

Thank you for being part of our exotic little ecosystem. Wishing you warmth, wonder, and a touch of wild this season!

🕷️🦎🐍✨

12/23/2025

🎄🕷️🦎🐟 Just in time for Christmas… the exotics lineup is officially stacked.

• Female jumping spiders bringing the holiday zoomies.
• Aphonopelma seemanni strutting those zebra stripes like winter runway royalty.
• Theraphosa stirmi delivering peak seasonal fluff.
• Avicularia avicularia floating through the world like pastel snowflakes.
• Our 5‑year‑old bearded dragon, calm and wise like a desert Santa.
• Guppy fish shimmering brighter than any Christmas lights.
• And now… a full lineup of leopard geckos, each one cuter, chunkier, and more festive than the last.

From scales to setae to tiny toe beans, this crew is ready to sleigh your feed.

12/22/2025

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from Eighth Element Exotics! ✨🎄
We’ll be open Christmas Eve from 10–6 for any last‑minute gifts, feeders, and holiday critter treats.

We’ll be closed on Christmas Day so our team and animals can enjoy a peaceful holiday at home.

We’ll reopen Friday at 10 AM—ready to help you finish the year with your favorite scaly, spiky, and eight‑legged friends.

Wishing you a warm, joyful, creature‑filled Merry Christmas! 💚🐍🕷️

12/19/2025

🐰✨ New arrival alert! Meet our newest little heart-stealer—this velvet-nosed cutie just hopped into Eighth Element Exotics and is already melting hearts. Swing by to say hi and witness maximum fluff in action!

12/17/2025

🎉 Breeding update from the Eighth Element vaults!

Today we paired Harpactira pulchripes (Golden Blue Leg Baboon), Monocentropus balfouri (Socotra Island Blue Baboon), and Hapalopus sp. Colombia (Pumpkin Patch Tarantula). The H. pulchripes and M. balfouri were successful — fingers crossed for fertile sacs. All three species will be paired again next week for another round.

Stay tuned for more updates from the silk-lined trenches 🕷️💥

12/16/2025

🖤 New Arrival Alert 🖤
Meet our latest aquatic icon: the melanistic axolotl. Sleek, shadowy, and scientifically fascinating, this rare morph is pure mystery in motion. Come see why dark is dazzling.

📍 Eighth Element Exotics — Manhattan, KS
🐾 Ethical care. Wild charm. Always on-brand.

12/15/2025

🪵 CORK BARK IS BACK, BABY. 🪵
And yes… it’s the good stuff. Thick tubes, hollow hides, chunky slabs—basically everything your critters have been manifesting since the last batch sold out in a blink.

📦 Sold by weight
📸 Come dig through the pile like a gremlin in its natural habitat
🐍 Perfect for geckos, tarantulas, skinks, isopods, and anyone else who appreciates real estate with character

If your enclosure looks like it needs a personality upgrade, this is your sign. Get in here before the choicest pieces disappear into someone else’s bioactive masterpiece.

📍8650 Edgewood Drive, Manhattan KS
🕒 Open today till 7PM

12/13/2025

Curly tail, killer instincts 🕵️‍♂️🦎
This Bahama Curly Tailed Lizard woke up and chose violence. Breakfast didn’t stand a chance. One moment it was peace and mulch… the next, it was a full-blown reptilian ambush. Tail curled like a croissant, attitude set to “apex.”