What's the cutest thing about tarantulas?

[Octagon]

Mine just throw massive rave parties and have cricket dogfighting matches. They keep me up all night.

Wow, you must be exhausted. Ours are active at night too, racking up giant cricket orders on our credit cards. We tried getting them their own (low-limit) cards but they don't seem to be satisfied unless they're using ours on the sly!

 

[Toxoderidae]

Wow, you must be exhausted. Ours are active at night too, racking up giant cricket orders on our credit cards. We tried getting them their own (low-limit) cards but they don't seem to be satisfied unless they're using ours on the sly!

You have it lucky! I found mine prank calling people.

 

[Octagon]

You have it lucky! I found mine prank calling people.

Ha ha.

(Sounds like we both need to figure out how to block their cell service!).

 

[hennibbale]

Didn't read them all, so it may have been said already;

When they threat pose food.
Like... mate, how'd you do in the wild?

 

[dopamine]

That's easy, the happy dance.

 

[BC1579]

My stirmi doing a bit of grooming.

My daughter loves it because she's enamored with cats.

Then it's got a more sinister side, as every so often you can see her fang overlaid across one of the the pedipalps. She's got some big mouth-daggers.

 

[Swoop]

My G. pulchra trips all over itself feeding. I gave it a gravid dubia one time to see if it could take it. It couldn't get its legs on the sub with the dubia under it (my pulchra is maybe 3") so it rolled on its side and ate it that way.

This morning it rolled on its side to eat a dubia the size of a nickel so I guess it's fun for him/her

 

[Moakmeister]

My G. pulchra trips all over itself feeding. I gave it a gravid dubia one time to see if it could take it. It couldn't get it's legs on the sub with the dubia under it so it rolled on its side and ate it that way.

This morning it rolled on its side to eat a dubia the size of a nickel so I guess it's fun for him/her

What kind of sadist are you that you don't post pictures of that

 

[grumpycow3]

I love when every time i open its enclosure to feed my g pulchripes sling puts its abdomen in the air and stands on its tippy toes

 

[Moakmeister]

When they play peekaboo

My pet log has a G. pulchripes living in it

• Moakmeister
• May 22, 2017
• 1

 

[PidderPeets]

When you open their enclosure for maintenance or feeding, and they panic so much that they forget where their burrow is and run all over the enclosure indecisively trying to figure out where to go.

When they attack the water as you're pouring it into their bowl.

The way they slowly creep up on their prey as if they're big fierce lions, when they're hardly the size of one's paw

 

[Tulip28]

I don't know if it's just me, but I think the chelicerae look like a giant, fluffy mustache. Paired with the tiny eyes reflecting in the light, it looks as though the tarantula's "mustache" is too big for its "face."

 

[Swoop]

What kind of sadist are you that you don't post pictures of that

Pretty sure feeding videos are just cricket snuff films lol.

I'll hold off for a week or so so it's hungry and try to get a video next time.

 

[Juniorispissed]

When you open their enclosure for maintenance or feeding, and they panic so much that they forget where their burrow is and run all over the enclosure indecisively trying to figure out where to go.

When they attack the water as you're pouring it into their bowl.

The way they slowly creep up on their prey as if they're big fierce lions, when they're hardly the size of one's paw

Yes!... attack the water and then go hide in shame when you realize what you've done. My OBT fo sho.

 

[BoyFromLA]

Who wouldn’t love a pet rock?! It rocks!

 

[PidderPeets]

Yes!... attack the water and then go hide in shame when you realize what you've done. My OBT fo sho.

My Nhandu chromatus full on tackles the water, swats at it once he starts getting bombarded with water droplets, retreats as soon as he realizes he's been bested, and then hides in defeat in his burrow for the next few hours. He has such an attitude at first, but he's such a big baby in the end.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

My Selenotypus sling had this stick that he absolutely loved. He'd keep it in one spot and if you moved it he'd get super offended and angry and place back in that exact spot

 

[Quetzalcoatl Nyarlathotep]

When slings get all fat and sassy, looking like clumsy walking potatoes. I call those ones spudleys. I also like the little tap walks they do when their exploring on a comfy piece of drift wood.

 

[Moakmeister]

My Selenotypus sling had this stick that he absolutely loved. He'd keep it in one spot and if you moved it he'd get super offended and angry and place back in that exact spot

no video? just kill me now

 

[The Grym Reaper]

When slings do threat postures.

Megaphobema mesomelas

• The Grym Reaper
• Oct 2, 2018
• 4
• costa rican redleg tarantula megaphobema megaphobema mesomelas mesomelas threat

"Bak off hooman! I iz big skery tranchoola"