twentyeggs
Arachnosquire
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- Oct 13, 2011
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so as some of the regular members know, i got a theraposa stirmi. It is a very beautiful spider and i've been wanting to hold it for a very long time. i have had a few "aggressive" tarantulas in the past but they have all been very docile! This one on the other hand is very skiddish and quick to rear up if anything touches her on the front 4 legs. So i bought some leather gloves and worked up my nerve. i stuck my hand in there and guided her towards my hand. The second she touched my glove she scampered up the glove, up my arm, up my neck and i kid you not, she stopped directly on my face over my left eye!! i was frozen with fear!!
My initial reaction was to freak out and shake her off but i couldn't do it because i didn't want to hurt her. i sat motionless trying to figure out what to do.. i was terrified that if i opened or moved my left eye she would feel the vibrations and attack it.. my fiance who was in the room freaking out was of no help she is terrified of the thing and after seeing it run up my body onto my face had her backed up standing on the couch!
so i slowly laid down on the ground, took my feather and started to touch her back legs with the best i could manage with my one eye. my depth perception was off a bit so i wasnt very sure where i was touching her with the feather.... she spun around and stuck her legs in the air!!!!!!!!!
i have a 5.5" theraposa in attack mode on my face!!! i laid still for about 5 min, which seemed like an hour. I motioned with my hands to my freaking out fiance to grab me a cup. at this point i was scared to speak. she rolled me a cup, and i slowly put it over the tarantula, got up, tilted my head foreward and she dropped to the bottom.
what a terrible experience... it took everything in me to not do what i wanted to do naturally and swat her off. had i been bitten in the eye, i am sure i would have gone blind. She is only 5-6 inches but her fangs are about a half inch long already.
so my question is, are theraposas easier to handle when they are adults? i know they can still run really fast, but will they slow down when they get fat and lazy? i know how to handle tarantulas and have had some quick ones, try and run up my arms, but they all run in bursts, which leave me time to cut them off and redirect them back towards my hands. My therapose took a sprint straight the the top, no stops, just point A to point B in a second. i love handling my T's but this one scared the living S*** out of me... i don't know if i will ever work up the nerve to handle her again.. i've never had such an unpredictable spider.
on a plus, she is a eating machine. very aggressive towards her food. She lays trip lines and the second something touches it she flies out of her hid and tackles it, she did a barrel roll once! Even tho she was stressed out she immediately ate a cricket after the whole ordeal. It was my way of saying sorry for putting her in such danger. i didn't expect her to eat for a while but she munched right down on it. So If i can't ever hold her the trade off is worth it.. would be nice if i could hold her when she is older..
... i think i need a beer....
My initial reaction was to freak out and shake her off but i couldn't do it because i didn't want to hurt her. i sat motionless trying to figure out what to do.. i was terrified that if i opened or moved my left eye she would feel the vibrations and attack it.. my fiance who was in the room freaking out was of no help she is terrified of the thing and after seeing it run up my body onto my face had her backed up standing on the couch!
so i slowly laid down on the ground, took my feather and started to touch her back legs with the best i could manage with my one eye. my depth perception was off a bit so i wasnt very sure where i was touching her with the feather.... she spun around and stuck her legs in the air!!!!!!!!!
i have a 5.5" theraposa in attack mode on my face!!! i laid still for about 5 min, which seemed like an hour. I motioned with my hands to my freaking out fiance to grab me a cup. at this point i was scared to speak. she rolled me a cup, and i slowly put it over the tarantula, got up, tilted my head foreward and she dropped to the bottom.
what a terrible experience... it took everything in me to not do what i wanted to do naturally and swat her off. had i been bitten in the eye, i am sure i would have gone blind. She is only 5-6 inches but her fangs are about a half inch long already.
so my question is, are theraposas easier to handle when they are adults? i know they can still run really fast, but will they slow down when they get fat and lazy? i know how to handle tarantulas and have had some quick ones, try and run up my arms, but they all run in bursts, which leave me time to cut them off and redirect them back towards my hands. My therapose took a sprint straight the the top, no stops, just point A to point B in a second. i love handling my T's but this one scared the living S*** out of me... i don't know if i will ever work up the nerve to handle her again.. i've never had such an unpredictable spider.
on a plus, she is a eating machine. very aggressive towards her food. She lays trip lines and the second something touches it she flies out of her hid and tackles it, she did a barrel roll once! Even tho she was stressed out she immediately ate a cricket after the whole ordeal. It was my way of saying sorry for putting her in such danger. i didn't expect her to eat for a while but she munched right down on it. So If i can't ever hold her the trade off is worth it.. would be nice if i could hold her when she is older..
... i think i need a beer....
