Can you keep a tarantula in a room, without an enclosure

[hisss]

Apologies if this total absolute noob question has already been mocked, but...

Anybody keep one or more tarantulas without an enclosure? I assume they would find a spot in a room and make a web and be there for a while if the eating is good?

I am not suggesting that this is not a terrible idea, or that I want to do it, just wondering, because it would be cool, and scary at the same time, to have tarantula(s) just living wildly in my house.

(Please do not show this post to my wife!)

 

[BoyFromLA]

It’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it would be like… placing a loaded gun without a lock on living room table, just because it would be cool, and scary at the same time.

 

[Edan bandoot]

People have done it with avics, wouldn't suggest anything of the sort though.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

I guess anything is possible but even if you just left an enclosure open, i don't see it lasting very long.

 

[Jonathan6303]

If you think about it. If you left a tarantula isolated in one spot for a long period of time and it got settled in it is likely not to move outside that area. This is only speculation. I mean ts usually don’t move to much(unless a male looking for a female). It would have to be the right environment.

 

[Hakuna]

Better question:

Do you want to share your bed with one tarantula?

 

[Jonathan6303]

Better question:

Do you want to share your bed with one tarantula?

I would. If they were cuddly(don’t know where the troll emoji is lol)

 

[corydalis]

Apologies if this total absolute noob question has already been mocked, but...

Anybody keep one or more wife without an enclosure? I assume they would find a spot in a room and make a web and be there for a while if the eating is good?

I am not suggesting that this is not a terrible idea, or that I want to do it, just wondering, because it would be cool, and scary at the same time, to have wife(s) just living wildly in my house.

(Please do not show this post to my T!)

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Sorry I had to do this.

Seriously though, I've seen people keeping Nephila sp. that way, but I doubt it would work with tarantulas.

 

[l4nsky]

https://arachnoboards.com/threads/free-roaming-ts.125864/

Not really a good idea, both from a potential invasive species standpoint and a potential risk to both the tarantulas and yourself. Even if, in a perfect scenario where you could get a native, species from your area (or lived in area with a hostile winter) and that species was well known for trending towards the docile side of the disposition scale, if you roll over it in your sleep or accidently step on it, then all bets are off. Atleast one of you is definently getting injured.

 

[Jumbie Spider]

I've seen some do orb weavers in their houses

 

[LucN]

I wouldn't try it, there's no guarantee that the spider would remain in one spot always. Eventually, it ends up being run over by the vacuum or gets killed by cleaning supplies. An Orb Weaver, however, in a corner, that would be more suitable.

 

[viper69]

Apologies if this total absolute noob question has already been mocked, but...

Anybody keep one or more tarantulas without an enclosure? I assume they would find a spot in a room and make a web and be there for a while if the eating is good?

I am not suggesting that this is not a terrible idea, or that I want to do it, just wondering, because it would be cool, and scary at the same time, to have tarantula(s) just living wildly in my house.

(Please do not show this post to my wife!)

Free roaming- I can’t believe this is even question.

Clearly you haven’t applied any critical thinking nor common sense to this idea

 

[QuinnStarr]

Better question:

Do you want to share your bed with one tarantula?

I share my bed with a tarantula.
She’s two years old and has a roughly 30-something inch legspan. Nowhere near being mature, though.
Oh. Wait. That’s my toddler. Sleeping next to her is like sleeping next to a drunk T. Legs everywhere.

 

[YungRasputin]

H. macs in every corner sounds heavenly

 

[QuinnStarr]

Apologies if this total absolute noob question has already been mocked, but...

Anybody keep one or more wife without an enclosure? I assume they would find a spot in a room and make a web and be there for a while if the eating is good?

I am not suggesting that this is not a terrible idea, or that I want to do it, just wondering, because it would be cool, and scary at the same time, to have wife(s) just living wildly in my house.

(Please do not show this post to my T!)

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Sorry I had to do this.

Seriously though, I've seen people keeping Nephila sp. that way, but I doubt it would work with tarantulas.

Not a wife, but I do keep my fiancé without an enclosure. He’s allowed to free roam. The only problem I’ve found with a free roaming partner is that they tend to leave things where you don’t want them.

I’ve put all his favorite things in one room, so he retreats to his safe spot a lot. Overall, it’s not a bad idea if they have the right disposition but you need to make sure they have a safe space where they can hide out if they get stressed. Free roaming partners are known to be less aggressive than confined ones too, so that’s a plus.

 

[vancwa]

You already do. They're called house spiders.

 

[darkness975]

@hisss
Some people do this with orb weavers. Not really the best idea in my opinion but to each their own.

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[AphonopelmaTX]

I’m pretty sure any free range tarantula kept in a room would eventually die of dehydration. Unless one likes standing water all over the floor

I can see an Avicularia species from an arid climate building a nice tube web in the corners where a wall meets the ceiling, but one would have to climb a ladder to spray the web every once in a while with water and find some kind of insect that would climb walls so it would have something to eat.

If someone is willing to go through all of that and risk making a mess of their room, then priorities in life need to be reconsidered.

 

[Yigzatoth]

Why would you ever consider this in the first place?
Beside de fact that probably the animal will die, you should also consider that tiny thing called invasive species should the tarantula escapes..
If i am not mistaken T. vagans (due to abandonment, free roaming or other weird thing) is now an invasive species in Florida.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

You... could, I guess? But you'd run the risk of the T finding somewhere else in your house to reside. Or having it run out of your house and finding its way into a neighbours house, where the neighbour kills it with Windex and a broom. (Dramatic, sure. But I know someone who actually did this to a neighbour's B. hamorii)