Watching the changes in both my wife and I since entering the hobby this past year, has been very interesting. Recently, I had an interesting (and heart pounding) experience with my adult B. vagans. Upon opening the lid to her tank for feeding, she teleported onto my finger and grabbed on with all legs. She did let go almost immediately, and after I finished wetting my pants, I realized that she had not bit me. This was the first time that a usually calm T acted like this.
A week later, we were feeding the T's again. My wife used the long tongs to take a dead cricket from the same B. vagan's tank. Again, in a blur of black velvet, the T was climbing up the tongs towards my wife. That same night, one of my normally calm E. pachypus spiders began attacking the sides of it's tank as I tried to open the lid to feed it. (This spider usually refuses to move for ANYTHING.)
Unfortunately, I am now finding myself a little "gun shy" around some of my T's now. I used to have no problems reaching into the tanks of most of my T's, but now, I feel nervous.
Is this something that other former arachnophobes have experienced - almost like a sort of regression?
Rick
A week later, we were feeding the T's again. My wife used the long tongs to take a dead cricket from the same B. vagan's tank. Again, in a blur of black velvet, the T was climbing up the tongs towards my wife. That same night, one of my normally calm E. pachypus spiders began attacking the sides of it's tank as I tried to open the lid to feed it. (This spider usually refuses to move for ANYTHING.)
Unfortunately, I am now finding myself a little "gun shy" around some of my T's now. I used to have no problems reaching into the tanks of most of my T's, but now, I feel nervous.
Is this something that other former arachnophobes have experienced - almost like a sort of regression?
Rick