A. Chalcodes bite report

[cold blood]

I was using tongs, I just put my hand in more than usual

It pays to have a good variety. Although I can't say I would be using the long ones for a 3" chalcodes.

0813161326

• cold blood
• Jan 30, 2017

tools of the trade

I only handle my other t when I need to clean her substrate and enclosure and that's only about 2-3 times a year unless Something happens

I see this from time to time, and it must come from pet stores who want to continually sell you substrate. Substrate doesn't need to be changed unless its got a severe mold or pest infestation.

Substrate doesn't just go bad, and tarantulas aren't really dirty animals. Just pick out the boli and don't leave dead prey in there and it will be fine for a long time. I have sub in with my rose hair that's well over a decade old....I have no intentions of changing it just for the sake of.

 

[Venom1080]

I don't like to handle tarantulas unless necessary

thats not what your other posts say.
handling is bad, no way around it, its a selfish habit, period.

 

[Goodlukwitthat]

thats not what your other posts say.
handling is bad, no way around it, its a selfish habit, period.

You beat me to it!

 

[Goodlukwitthat]

As for watering your ts.... I use this awesome thing called a spray bottle. Not only does it let you mist spray..... it lets you spray a stream of water from a safe distance.....You should invest in one

 

[tristan4033]

It pays to have a good variety. Although I can't say I would be using the long ones for a 3" chalcodes.

0813161326

• cold blood
• Jan 30, 2017

tools of the trade

I see this from time to time, and it must come from pet stores who want to continually sell you substrate. Substrate doesn't need to be changed unless its got a severe mold or pest infestation.

Substrate doesn't just go bad, and tarantulas aren't really dirty animals. Just pick out the boli and don't leave dead prey in there and it will be fine for a long time. I have sub in with my rose hair that's well over a decade old....I have no intentions of changing it just for the sake of.

What's boil

 

[Goodlukwitthat]

What's boil

A boil is a painful, pus-filled bump under the skin caused by infected, inflamed hair follicles. Boli or bolus is a small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food ....aka what your tarantula doesn't suck out of its prey and leaves behind. You're welcome.

 

[cold blood]

What's boil

Or its what happens to liquids at high temps.

Why would you ask? I didn't use the word boil anywhere in the thread.

 

[cold blood]

I see it now...you are referring to boli.

Boli is the plural for bolus...a bolus is what's left after a meal, its a ball of the undigestible parts of the prey


Like rabi is the plural for rabbit...errr, wait....now I'm confusing myself. Disregard.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Like rabi is the plural for rabbit...errr, wait....now I'm confusing myself. Disregard.

eh eh, it's since forever that I wanted to use this against you

 

[cold blood]

eh eh, it's since forever that I wanted to use this against you

Ahhh touché my man. It took a while but you brought that right back around.

 

[tristan4033]

Any of you guys been bit r cently

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Any of you guys been bit r cently

Recently for me is 30 years ago, now + or - (I can't anymore recall well, ah ah) but not by a Theraphosidae :-s

 

[tristan4033]

And what species

 

[nicodimus22]

Last summer, actually...Anopheles quadrimaculatus.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

And what species

C.punctorium. The bite itself (chelicerae damage) was somewhat painful, and not only because I was little back then :-/

 

[tristan4033]

Last summer, actually...Anopheles quadrimaculatus.

Wow I got bit by many mosquitoes also

 

[Chris LXXIX]

If you ask me, without the will to sound pompous at all (I swear) for me is more easy to end tagged by a true spider rather than a Theraphosidae.

Not because I was bitten, eh... for that like an idiot, back then, I've asked for a bite (grabbed the spider in hand, while he/she was out in full night, lol) but because they are, if possible, more unpredictable than T's. Only their way (obviously) of bite... they can bite someone when they want while on the hand, they don't need to 'stand' like T's and using chelicerae like pickaxe for that.

 

[tristan4033]

I wasn't bitten by a theraphosidae

 

[Chris LXXIX]

I wasn't bitten by a theraphosidae

Yes you were, according to this thread :-s

Just that here people loves to call Theraphosidae 'tarachulas'

 

[EulersK]

I wasn't bitten by a theraphosidae

... what? Do you know what "theraphosidae" means?

You absolutely were. You were bitten by an A. chalcodes, which is 100%, undeniably, certainly a Theraphosidae.