LittleT
Arachnopeon
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I really enjoy hearing about other people's experiences keeping T's. So thought I would start a fun thread to see what are your favourite, funny and, or worst experiences owning Tarantulas?
my wife would have said your on your own and locked the bathroom door shut. (I still always do my work in the tub) hahahA few years ago i had to relocate several adult haplopelma hainanum. The first 3 went as planned, nr 4 ran away and i did not see WHERE! I searched like crazy for 10minutes and where i have my animals there is 110% secure and NO places for them hide. But i could not find her, and i search my pants and T-shirts backside, but no T there either. I sat down for a thinking break and had a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Then i look at my shoulder and saw this:
Big surprise, she had jumped from the box and up on my pants and that way up, but she sat at an angle where i could not see her, and i could not get her away from there safely either. So i smoked the rest of the cigarette and drank my coffe finished, took a picture and called my wife to help me get her under control;-)
Sorry to hear that. Might want to go easy on the language though...I got 2...
I had a green bottle blue, Bruja...anyway I get the spider house set it up look at my husband and said she will be here in 2 weeks, he of course no effing way balh blah blah...bruja arrives...fast forward 3 weeks...I come home from work to see my husband on the bed laying there with her on his stomach....shes just the neatest thing ever....
2....she definitely had personality....when she would finish eating she would put the leftovers on her water dish and sit there facing us all like im finished eating human you can remove this garbage from my presence
Sadly she turned out to be a he (fuck backwater reptiles) and passed away a month ago....im getting another GBB what a wonderful species
Be careful though! All poec slings I have refuse to dart towards their hide. Instead, they view my arm as a proper means of escape. Not the best situation for me.A heart attack funny moment, and it happened yesterday.
My Pokie sling, an ornata about two inches long now, molted about a week ago. I was carefully opening the container to drop in a cricket for her. Now, when I open any arboreal cage, I always make sure I know EXACTLY where the tarantula is. Common sense. My eyes were ON the ornata as I carefully opened the plastic arboreal cage she's in - and what pops out instantly on my hand, in my eyes - the ornata! right there, on my hand - even though I'm LOOKING AT HER in the cage, knowing she's fast, but not THAT fast. My heart lurches, I freeze, and look again - it's the molt, positioned right where the enclosure seam is, and it fell out onto my hand when I opened it. About gave me a heart attack, but I was laughing.
You lucky those are by far, my fav. 'Haplos' of all time. Haplopelma hainanum is the best 'Haplo' ever IMO. Amazing high strung attitude. Never had the pleasure to own one, others of the genus, yes, but never "her"A few years ago i had to relocate several adult haplopelma hainanum. The first 3 went as planned, nr 4 ran away and i did not see WHERE! I searched like crazy for 10minutes and where i have my animals there is 110% secure and NO places for them to hide. But i could not find her, and i search my pants and T-shirts backside, but no T there either. I sat down for a thinking break and had a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Then i look at my shoulder and saw this:
Big surprise, she had jumped from the box and up on my pants and that way up, but she sat at an angle where i could not see her, and i could not get her away from there safely either. So i smoked the rest of the cigarette and drank my coffe finished, took a picture and called my wife to help me get her under control;-)
Until 1 year ago i had a huge collection of haplopelma schmidti and hainanum. Got offspring aswell. They are great T´s, but rarely for sale anymore. Especcially schmidti are tricky to work with, they can behave very nice in 5min and all of the sudden just explode in total rage out of nowhere...But get them if you are able to. I can help you out in the breeding department.You lucky those are by far, my fav. 'Haplos' of all time. Haplopelma hainanum is the best 'Haplo' ever IMO. Amazing high strung attitude. Never had the pleasure to own one, others of the genus, yes, but never "her"
Moral of the story should be an obvious one...never buy arachnids from a reptile dealer...never...and why would you with all the great dealers specializing in tarantulas....I ask anyone buying from such a place the same question...would you buy your reptiles at a tarantula dealer that just dabbled in reps on the side? I wouldn't.Sadly she turned out to be a he (backwater reptiles) and passed away a month ago....im getting another GBB what a wonderful species
They must have insane vision. Feeders literally have to touch my subadult female regalis before she even notices their existence.Moral of the story should be an obvious one...never buy arachnids from a reptile dealer...never...and why would you with all the great dealers specializing in tarantulas....I ask anyone buying from such a place the same question...would you buy your reptiles at a tarantula dealer that just dabbled in reps on the side? I wouldn't.
When my P. nigricolor was small, maybe 1.5-2" I went to feed her early one morning (like 2am), I grasped the cricket in the tweezers, opened the enclosure top, and began to lower the cricket. Still nearly 2 feet away from the enclosure lid the cricket begins to struggle. Instantly (and I mean that quite literally) she turned (she was facing the wall like she had just been reprimanded), ran to the opening and jumped the nearly 2 feet onto the tweezers, turned, snatched the cricket, jumped back down into her enclosure and began to eat...al before I could even react....I laughed so hard and may have even clapped a little....very entertaining spiders Pamphs are.
They have an extra sense courtesy of all those hairs...they feel vibrations from great distances. I can't recall exactly where I read it, but supposedly they can tell the size and shape of their prey well before its within range to see....and terrestrials have notoriously poor vision.They must have insane vision. Feeders literally have to touch my subadult female regalis before she even notices their existence.
lol all my poecs take forever to eat. The metallicas literally need to touch the food for long periods of time to trust it's food, the striata runs, then comes back around an hour later to eat (he's subadult) and the tigrin won't eat when I'm around. I don't expect my rufilata to eat though, as it hasn't accepted food since I got it, I think it's just a weaker specimen.They have an extra sense courtesy of all those hairs...they feel vibrations from great distances. I can't recall exactly where I read it, but supposedly they can tell the size and shape of their prey well before its within range to see....and terrestrials have notoriously poor vision.
I think your regalis is just unusually patient...I have 2 AF regalis and neither is anything like that...they're frantic eaters like most of my poecs.
premolt?I don't expect my rufilata to eat though, as it hasn't accepted food since I got it, I think it's just a weaker specimen.