Grammostola Pulchra Behavior

Are G. Pulchras really docile/tolerant?

  • Yes

    Votes: 33 80.5%

  • No

    Votes: 8 19.5%
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Poec54

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If you've seen pulchra attack prey, you wouldn't call them docile. There's no reason to think that you can pick them up and hold them and have no chance of getting bitten. They're solitary predators with small brains.
 
Chris LXXIX

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Exoskeleton Invertebrates said:
Yes the land of Sandino, now is the land of the idiotic communist government who are destroying the land to built their "Canal" that is being built or going to be built by China.
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More or less the scenario that is happening in some African nations, and, with a different "cover", in Europe as well.
Those are globalism miracles, nothing to worry ;)
 
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Good informationight here, I just bought my 6 year old female G. Pulchra. I recently started this hobby so I'm new here and to turantulas. Oddly enough I came here and found this thread sooooo thanks for the info guys. Won't need to bore you with a repost on this topic :pompous:
 
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Poec54 said:
If you've seen pulchra attack prey, you wouldn't call them docile. There's no reason to think that you can pick them up and hold them and have no chance of getting bitten. They're solitary predators with small brains.
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This argument is flawed. Everything has a feeding response when it come too food. Dogs, cats, chicken, bunnies, me will fight for food if hungry enough yet that does not mean that they all will bite/attack you. I have some tarantulas that I trust more than I would of my neighbors dog. And G. pulchra I trust more than my neighbors dog.
Than again look at how many people have been bitten by G. pulchra on our bite reports.......devastating just devastating, isn't?
 
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Miquel

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Exoskeleton Invertebrates said:
This argument is flawed. Everything has a feeding response when it come too food. Dogs, cats, chicken, bunnies, me will fight for food if hungry enough yet that does not mean that they all will bite/attack you. I have some tarantulas that I trust more than I would of my neighbors dog. And G. pulchra I trust more than my neighbors dog.
Than again look at how many people have been bitten by G. pulchra on our bite reports.......devastating just devastating, isn't?
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Here i go being new here running to the bite reports and found but ONE report lol
 
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Hey Joe, did you tell the OP that it would be fine for her to handle the tarantula once a day ?
 
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Stranger said:
Hey Joe, did you tell the OP that it would be fine for her to handle the tarantula once a day ?
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Hey stranger, that would be impossible as tarantulas have to molt and eat lol.

However, I have had a few friends (Spider Mike for example lol) who did not care what I or anyone else thought and almost slept with their "little buddy". In his case this was a pamphobeteus antinous and although I told him it would bite him, kick hairs, and he was nuts he continued to spend ever day with that T. To my amazement the tarantula never had any agressive behavior towards him and continued to be his best buddy (He was lucky I guess). Since her death of old age he has since be friended a parahybana and I have not asked in a while if he still holds her daily. I know with the tarantulas he has learned to respect those with agressive tendency's and observe when a safe time to hold them might be and the choice of if or when he gets bit is up to the Tarantula lol.

The point is if the holder is aware of the cosequences to them and hold the tarantula so that there is no harm for the tarantula (falling from to high, kicking hairs and injuring abdomin, breaking an apendage, etc...) then I leave it up to the individual to determine if, when, and how much they hold their tarantula. I am merely here to educate and leave the desicon to the owner of how they want to handle their pet. As long as I feel they are not hurting their pet or any other innocent by standard then they can make the adult decision(s).

In addition, I do know others who use gloves and swear by never getting bit, hair kicked, or injuring the tarantula.

To each their own.....
 
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Hey everyone!

Wow, thank you so much for all the different perspectives and knowledge! I am so grateful for all your responses! And Joe, thank you again! You are super knowledgeable, kind, and patient, and I couldn't have been happier with my T.:happy: And thanks for the laughs, you guys are too funny!! :rofl: I am also happy this thread helped someone else out that needed the same type of information!

P.S. I'm going to refer to my T. as "her" for now lol

As an update, I increased her substrate to about 4-5" or one third of the height of the tank in substrate. I will add more, but I want to wait a little while to move her again, since she was recently disturbed.

Also, I have offered food, but since she is likely in premolt, I am just being observant. She has been more skittish and very secluded, and webbing a whole lot all around her coconut husk.

I moved her water dish closer as well :)

Thank you again!! <3
 
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Another thing about screen tops, besides the T getting it's claws stuck and possibly losing a leg, they can get their fangs stuck as well and even chew through screen. Best bet would be to replace it with a sheet of plexi with vent holes drilled into it.

And like said, more substrate, terrestrials needs a lot of substrate to reduce the risk of a ruptured abdomen from a fall, which is almost always fatal. Terrestrials don't possess the climbing abilities (they can slip from the sides easily) and resistance to a fall of that of aboreal Ts.
 
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Chris LXXIX said:
I think that Theraphosidae aren't docile nor tolerant. This is a huge misunderstanding "born" probably for answer, in general, the facts that there's high strung T's (and not necessarily those are always the OW ones) and the "which is the best starter T's ?" recurring question.

I have a 0.1 (rescued from a weed addicted punk) Grammostola pulchripes that is completely moody and very defensive (altough she doesn't kick hairs at all). I'm careful (the right, of course) around her. Now "Chaco" are definitely considered one of the best starter T's, this is a fact. Not mine.

Same for my 0.1 Brachypelma albopilosum: in her wrong day, try to remove for clean her water dish. Once she started a threat display followed by two, not one, bites "in the air" in a row. Another always suggested T's, always handled.

However for answer to your question, yes, genus Grammostola is considered, by the entire hobby community a 'docile/tolerant' one.

As others said before, i think that a 10 gallon tank is really too much. IMO i wouldn't even house a genus Theraphosa one in that much space.
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Get the latin name of species Italic, really strict!
 
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