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Oh yeah! The polish one is in fact way closer to something it could be said as in latin. Many people outside this discussion do not have the information how to pronounce it the native way and are struggling (I've already seen quite a few tliltocatl pronounciation memes circling around), or will...

To be fair - that's quite terrible latin pronounciation, I'd definitely advice against trying to copy that. Sadly I find that google translate isn't always very accurate when it comes to latin pronounciations in general... Though obviously I can't claim to be an expert either. I've studied latin...

After my poor P. irminia died, I only have 4 tarantulas left. I would like to get more... but what I can get is a bit limited: more NWs with urticating hairs are not an option, and I have other pets so I'm not really comfortable getting OWs either. And I don't feel like getting more arboreals...

No, you are completely correct - it's the same here (EU nation nordic ;)), and that was what I tried to imply. The CITES doesn't mean you're not allowed to own some species, just restricts the trade by requiring the animals to have papers to prove they're legally bred and sold. That is a...

Where I'm from (nordics) we have no restrictions on arachnid keeping apart from what CITES states about brachys etc., but on the other hand you can't keep any wild animals as pets. This means the situation is pretty sketchy, as some animals become "acceptable" if they have been in the pet trade...

Like others have said - wait until you get your own place, haha! When I was a kid my parents didn't let me keep a lot of animals I would have wanted, like rabbits, snails, snakes... you name it. Nowadays I keep just about everything I can, for example one of the first pets I got after moving to...

Any T with urticating setae, sadly it's not worth the trouble for me. I have G. pulchripes and an LP I love to death, but I'm not going to get any more, I'll stick to "hairless" NWs like psalmos, or move to OWs eventually. Don't get me wrong, I'd really love me some brachys, or a nhandu or a...

A lot more knowledge about the world, plenty of joy and sated curiosity. And a few rashes... Also I've successfully annoyed more people in the vicinity of me with my lectures, as now also any mentions of spiders will trigger me to passionately share random facts about tarantulas. Many don't...

I just adore animals in general, and I am deeply fascinated with almost anything that lives. I love learning about T's and observing them just tarantuling away with their businesses.

I'd just like to add, that the "fear of the unknown", "learned fear" and something I tend to call "difficult phobia" (because that's easier to differentiate from just "fear") can be vastly different things, even though most seem to be described as phobias when commonly speaking. I guess most of...

Yeah... my SO wasn't really suprised to hear the news, either. She just commented that the spider in question had seem "more lethargic than any of the others" - I guess she was right. Anyway, RIP my poor little irminia gal.

My P. irminia juvie seemed to molt successfully (her dirt-curtains were towards the clear plastic so I have been able to spy on her just by turning the enclosure around) but today I found she had finally crawled out of her hide... and died in a classy death curl. Oh well. I think there was some...

I just name my every T with a name that would fit a fancy lady (no matter if they're unsexed, haha), so far I have Lucille, Amanda, Beatrice, Isabel and Esmeralda. I just find it somehow hilarious for them to have such names, it's the opposite of what I am doing with my mammal pets (for example...

I kind of agree with this. I don't really like the idea of buying adult T's, but on the other hand I have bought all of mine as decent sized juvies. I have nothing against having slings but I tend to stress a lot about stupid things, like would I find proper feeders, or what if I have to go...

I don't have many bad stories, but still some... I guess it's unavoidable when caring for something that general public considers terrifying. Anyway, once I was around when my partner was talking with a close relative about how we were getting a snake, and he replied with "Well, snakes are...

I agree with this, just adding that many people call certain stubborness combined with a very strong will "dominance" (probably because that idiotic position filling theory makes people see those qualities in that way), which on the other hand is a thing. I'm close with dobermans and some of...

I second this! I guess P. regalis is my dream T, the first time I saw the stripes I felt like my heart skipped a beat. I've never seen a T I wouldn't find beautiful though... some are just a bit more stunning than others, haha.

I have only 5 T's, so not so many eaters... I aswered "yes" even though I don't have a breeding colony. However, I do buy dubias in bulk and then slowly feed them off to my lovelies. I can't handle even seeing mealworms as I am so repulsed by them, and crickets just die or eat each other no...

I've seen too many times "Mexican red leg/knee tarantula" used to describe B. hamorii, B. emilia, B. auratum, B. boehmei... pretty much all Brachypelma that have red on their legs. Similarly "pink toe" might often be almost anything from the Avicularia genus.

Psalmos are great! I have three, and for me they have been the easiest T's to keep. I'm unsure though would I recommend psalmo as a first tarantula, they are very fast and kind of bolty in a twitchy way, and the bite is said to be quite bad (they lack the urticating setae, so more potent venom)...