How aggressive is this thai tiger tarantula i purchased....

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Most tarantulas are only aggressive if disturbed or threatened , give it a hide it will feel safe. Can you get me a better pic of cage?? Looks a little too wet.

 

[Misty Day]

Most tarantulas are only aggressive if disturbed or threatened

+1, In their mind, their lives are at risk and will do anything to protect themselves. They didn't survive all this time without that defensive side of them.

 

[elliotulysses]

+1, In their mind, their lives are at risk and will do anything to protect themselves. They didn't survive all this time without that defensive side of them.

Which is why I think the more feisty Ts are misunderstood

 

[Misty Day]

Which is why I think the more feisty Ts are misunderstood

Definitely, even the "docile" tarantulas can panic and think their life is in danger. Which is why I hate when people start threads like "My G.Rosea just tried to attack me!!!", it's a wild animal, they're not smart enough to know we're not a predator. We don't know what their triggers are.

 

[elliotulysses]

Definitely, even the "docile" tarantulas can panic and think their life is in danger. Which is why I hate when people start threads like "My G.Rosea just tried to attack me!!!", it's a wild animal, they're not smart enough to know we're not a predator. We don't know what their triggers are.

Exactly they run on instinct theoretically. We don't understand their cognitive abilities and instead of recognizing it people project their emotions, which IMO is dangerous

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Though I do have an oddball rosea. She isn't defensive, just very unconventional lol
She was my only tag, though it was all my fault

 

[Misty Day]

people project their emotions, which IMO is dangerous

Nothing annoys me more than people saying that their tarantula "loves" to be handled.

 

[elliotulysses]

Nothing annoys me more than people saying that their tarantula "loves" to be handled.

They fear for their life! That's when Crazy tagged me as I tried to get her down from the corner to fix the lid.

BTW username is AHS reference or coincidence?

 

[cold blood]

Most tarantulas are only aggressive if disturbed or threatened , give it a hide it will feel safe. Can you get me a better pic of cage?? Looks a little too wet.

Haplos aren't most tarantulas.

I agree, it looks way too wet.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Nothing annoys me more than people saying that their tarantula "loves" to be handled.

That same person, prob will be asking why they got bitten too , or haired LOL . I hate it when drop and kill ts while handling or kill them as movie props that really is messed up!!!!:

 

[Misty Day]

BTW username is AHS reference or coincidence?

It is a reference actually.

Lizeredguy102, like others have said, better pictures of the enclosure would help a lot.

 

[Hellemose]

Heres how i house some of my Haplo's and Liphistius






and the lady inhabiting the burrow



She is a beast btw, not in the sense of size but in attitude