Chastising someone about irresponsibility AFTER THE FACT isn't necessary, when there is danger still lurking. You aren't making yourself look like some Angelic Being here when you were just quoted in this same thread of having a Cobalt Blue crawling on you in your bed and being bitten. Obviously your sliding doors weren't locked.Someone's been reading through my posts.
That incident did result in a bite, by the way. It's in the bite reports, which is where I assume Spidershane1 heard about it.
Anyway, here's my two blunt, to the point, cents:
If there are kids in the house, it's irresponsible to keep spiders like that anywhere that poses a risk for something like this to happen. I have two sons, one is almost 3, the other is 11 days old. The spider room has glass sliding doors that SEAL and LOCK, so if I do make a mistake, anything that escapes is contained in that room and can't get into the rest of the house.
I realize my particular setup isn't something most people have, but it's your responsibility to protect yourself, your children, and anyone else in your home against something like this from happening. Those spiders need to be in a room, cabinet, closet, or something that is sealed off from the rest of the house.
All that being said, if I were in your situation, I'd vacate and bug bomb the house. One spider isn't worth thousands of dollars in hospital bills, angry parents, cops knocking on your door, and potentially having the rest of your spiders taken away.
Don't wait. Bomb the house.
Someone is in a panic and needs assistance on WHERE people think the tarantula would be. 
Flush it out with the AC? Great advice. :wall:Chastising someone about irresponsibility AFTER THE FACT isn't necessary, when there is danger still lurking. You aren't making yourself look like some Angelic Being here when you were just quoted in this same thread of having a Cobalt Blue crawling on you in your bed and being bitten. Obviously your sliding doors weren't locked.
P. regalis means fast. I found an escaped Lp sling a good 50 ft from it's enclosure before. Also found G. rosea slings in other rooms far from their initial enclosures. These are slow walkers for the most part. So in the event of a P. regalis we're talking fast, and high. I wouldn't be so quick to assume looking near the enclosure anymore. I'd venture out into the home now. And always looking higher than low.
If you feel it's in AC vents, there is a shot you can turn on the coldest of air and flush it out or it's possible to escape through these vents outside. As they won't sit still for very long. As others also said, If you continue to feel panic stricken, defog the home twice, and hope you find her dead unfortunate as it sounds, it's far better than an injured child or adult for that matter.
Shame on you for being the hobby so long Joe. Shame shame!
You don't even know me. And I've read a ton of your posts in threads and you provide nothing of substance but a very rash mouth. I don't respect anything you've offered in ANY post I've read from you, just as you've offered nothing here but more of "your elitist attitude" and you speak to people like they are beneath you on the internet.
Tarantulas aren't vicious. You make it sounds like methodically plot to attack people or something.
Look don't turn this thread into silliness. Who cares what you think? If it's not vicious to you then keep it to yourself. The thread is about someone who seeks help in a dire situation. You people have got to be kidding with your attitudes. If I gave bad advice with the AC ducts (which I'd like to hear reasoning why it's bad advice) then I apologize to the OP.
If you bothered to do a little bit of research you would have found that P. regalis, as well as most other Poecilotheria species, are actually found in subtropical climes and often cool montane forests in the wild where temperatures range from the 60s to low 80s; and therefore are very tolerant of lower temperatures (in fact a few species REQUIRE low temps to thrive in captivity). How about you get your facts right before trying to give "good advice"?
You're right, I don't know you. What I do know is you've been a member here for all of 3 months and have 2 qualifying posts to your name. Congrats. Care to enlighten me on your experience in this hobby, since you are obviously so much smarter than your posts reflect...
Ditto this.
No I'm not? But you must be right? Trying to talk down to someone that has given way more back to the hobby than you have? Trust me, I have done that before with another important member here and I was wrong for it. You don't even know what you are talking about. One hundred degrees? If I kept my room that hot my T's would boil.
If I had a book of FACTS on P. regalis alone I'd slap you with it. I have THREE P. regalis and my best friend of 20 years just recently married a woman from that region a small town near (Madura). And she was overjoyed when she came here to America and saw them in my home, and she always speaks of the temperature differences of her homeland and America. 100+ temps from a resident there of 38 years, to your attempt at belittling me in someone else's thread, and looking stupid in the end, which is seemingly the norm around here.
LMAO So would all animals and insects in the deserts of Africa according to you? I'm about to get a headache with this. I HAVE to copy and paste this thread. This is beyond comical now.
How about you stop entertaining this thread as well. Your input here has been zero, and you're the one who has driven this thread off-topic in the first place.
Where did Sleazoid say anything about insects living in 100+ degrees?
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Considering most T's from Africa burrow and live underground for most of their lives, they wouldn't be in 100+ degree temps. It would be much cooler than the surface. Also I just said my T room. Meaning I have T's including Poecilotheria species that require lower temps than that.
Oh, I see! Does she live in the cloud forest in the hills of the Eastern Ghats? Do you know anything about the relationship between altitude and temperature?
What!???
Dayum....
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Ditto.Good to hear you found her