MyBoyLuvsTs
Arachnopeon
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- Nov 18, 2018
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Before I begin, this is my first time posting. I am a first time tarantula owner ONLY because it's something my son really wanted and he has been through a lot medically and emotionally. I had the store owner set up the enclosure and put that into a box and strap it in the seat belt to bring it home. My son has had an Aphonopelma seemanni named Aragog for 3 years and we believe she is a female based on dissecting her molt. She's been downstairs on a bookshelf this whole time. He recently got a scorpion so I put both the scorpion (Xeno after a xenomorph) and Aragog in his room. Horrible idea of mine. He's 11 years old and was in charge of feeding them. I went to check on them and the tarantula's tank lid was sitting on top of the track that it slides in with a space where she could crawl out. We searched the enclosure and she was not in there. I took 2 days off work to look through and under everything and pack things in totes to make it easier to look in small dark spaces. We slept downstairs thinking she would be upstairs still. We do not handle her so we were definitely freaked out about the idea of her loose. My boyfriend came over today to help look and started in the pantry which is downstairs...where we have been sleeping. After only a couple minutes he found her HE FOUND HER! with some webbing between two bins on a shelf about my neck level, I'm 5'3". He got grill tongs, a bucket and gloves and put her in the bucket and is now safely back in her tank with water and a cricket. We are still freaked out about it! I didnt think she was able to climb like that. She had quite the adventure and my son is happy she's alive.