Survey!

[badxwolf1203]

Years Of Experience: 2
Ts In Collection: 49 + a bunch of 2i babies
Escapes: 0
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 1% OW/ 99% NW
Extra Info: My first breeding project (Hapalopus sp Colombia Large) just molted to 2i so I'm pretty stoked to have all these adorable little babies!

 

[boina]

Years of experience: 5
# of Ts: 129
Escapes: 2
- G. pulchripes AF, early on. Yes, cats can open a terrarium with front doors. T was found alive and well after dismantling a huge wall to wall book (now spider-) case.
- X. immanis juvenile, a little later - spiders can fit through smaller slits than you'd think. T was found alive and well (despite cats all around) behind a display case across the room.
Times bitten: 0
OW/NW: probably 50/50
Extra info: I urgently need a new hair cut. I look like this right now. Grey, curly, and too long.

 

[Marika]

Years Of Experience: 2 months
Ts In Collection: 1
Escapes: 0
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 100% NW
Extra Info: I also keep millipedes, roaches, snails and isopods.

 

[PidderPeets]

Years Of Experience: 5 months
Ts In Collection: 8
Escapes: 1
When my LP was only 3/4 - 1 DLS, I improperly sealed it's enclosure and it got out while I was at work. It was found within 20 minutes of me getting home, hiding under a towel I left at the bottom of my bookcase/tarantula stand/fishtank stand from when I thought my tank might be leaking.
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 0% OW, 100% NW
Extra Info: I'm enjoying the little underwear tidbits WAY more than I probably should

 

[spotropaicsav]

4 Years of experience
3 Ts-NWs-no slings- adults only
0 Escapes
0 Times bitten

Other- I have a knack for accurately predicting inclement weather, yay for spicy/salty food lovers, reading not TV

 

[KezyGLA]

Years Of Experience: 11-12 years
Ts In Collection: unknown
Escapes: 3
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 80% - 20% (guess)
Extra Info: baboon daft

 

[KezyGLA]

@Rhysandfish what would you like me to clarify?

 

[Rhysandfish]

@Rhysandfish what would you like me to clarify?

Just the amount of T's you have. Sorry if it seemed a little rude, Was just curious like if you had so many you couldnt count or that it was area 51 top secret lol.

 

[KezyGLA]

Just the amount of T's you have. Sorry if it seemed a little rude, Was just curious like if you had so many you couldnt count or that it was area 51 top secret lol.

Ah, I didnt think was rude but just didnt know what you wanted to know aha.

I stopped counting a long time ago. I just don't know how many I keep.

 

[Rhysandfish]

Ah, I didnt think was rude but just didnt know what you wanted to know aha.

I stopped counting a long time ago. I just don't know how many I keep.

Thats awesome. I aspire to have that many lol.

 

[Giles52]

Years Of Experience: Almost two years.
Ts In Collection: 3
Number Of Escapes: 0
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 100% NW
Extra Info: Our Ts are currently in our living room, where they become the subjects of jokes between my husband and I. . .we also make up voices for them, and we speculate about what the Ts are thinking while they're sitting still for hours or climbing on their plants and logs. My husband wears boxers. And so do I, occasionally.

 

[mack1855]

Years of experience, little over 1year.
T,s in collection : 29.
Escapes :0
Times bitten:0
80%NW to 20%OW.
Megaphobema maniac.

 

[Ungoliant]

Just curious, I wanna do a survey of us hobbyists...

Years Of Experience: 3.6

Ts In Collection: 7

Escapes: 0

Times Bitten: 0

% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 100% New World

Extra Info: I started learning about (and keeping) true spiders before I received my first tarantula as a surprise (a birthday gift from my mother).

 

[ShyDragoness]

Years Of Experience: 2 months
Ts In Collection: 3
Escapes: 0
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 100% NW
Extra Info: My mothers still angry that I got a scorpion without telling her

 

[Colette]

Years of experience: 2 years
Ts in collection: 6 Ts plus one true spider
Escapes: 0
Bites: 0
100% NW
Extra info: I once became so hysterical at a garden spider in my bathroom I confronted it in nothing but my underwear, boots, and rubber gloves wielding a stick. (Used to have a bit of a problem with orb weavers lol).
Nb the spider was unhurt, I never found it.

 

[EmilzHernandez]

Years of experience: 5 with NW, 7 months with OW.
T's in collection: 12
Escapes: 0
Bites:0
75% OW, 25% NW
Extra info: Despite my immense love of tarantulas, true spiders, and solpugids, I am pathologically terrified of being near scorpions

 

[EmilzHernandez]

Edit: Experience is within keeping T's, I've grown up with parents and friends who have kept their own T's

 

[vespers]

Years Of Experience: Started when Reagan was still in office, though near the end of his presidency. I haven't kept them continuously for all that time though, as there were times that life circumstances forced me to go on hiatus here and there.
Ts In Collection: Currently just 13 (downsized a bit in recent years). Now I have other "jungle pets" as well taking up room, including my dart frog vivariums and my wife's gecko collection.
Escapes: 0
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: Used to be fairly even, but currently its NW heavy.
Extra Info: I stopped wearing underwear back around the time I started keeping arachnids. Hmmm...coincidence?

 

[Haemus]

years of exp: 1.5
collection #: 6
escapes: 0
times bitten: 0
all NW baby
extra info: I love how many experienced keepers rarely get bitten. That's some tarantula level vigilance that I hope to have one day

 

[PidderPeets]

Years of experience: 5 with NW, 7 months with OW.
T's in collection: 12
Escapes: 0
Bites:0
75% OW, 25% NW
Extra info: Despite my immense love of tarantulas, true spiders, and solpugids, I am pathologically terrified of being near scorpions

Time to work on that scorpion fear so you can get even more inverts