Gloves for Tarantulas NW Urticating hairs?

[Ultum4Spiderz]

NW hairs are brutally painfull, any suggestions of gloves to wear during feeding / cage maintenance?
* (Not throw away gloves though prob, the price adds up overtime a lot!!.)Id need multiples per feeding session too.
Room is too small to set my cages up for smarter feeding (but I will try to avoid getting haired at all costs too).

Is it bad to have Nw in a bedroom should I try to move them out of here. Could a fan circulate there hairs?, even if turned off during feeding.


Thanks!

 

[BobGrill]

If you have another room to put them in you can do that. Turning off the fan is probably a good idea when opening the enclosure. I personally have never felt it necessary to use gloves, but I sometimes wear eye protection around hair kickers.

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[Ultum4Spiderz]

If you have another room to put them in you can do that. Turning off the fan is probably a good idea when opening the enclosure. I personally have never felt it necessary to use gloves, but I sometimes wear eye protection around hair kickers.

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Yeah sadly until finances improve I got one room but enough space for all my Ts. Ill check home depot see if they got any like good gloves then...

 

[14pokies]

I would try the thick yellow dishwashing gloves that go up to about mid forearm.... I would think that any type of work glove that home depot would sell will have fabrick that will retain hairs..

The dishgloves should be thick enough to stop most NW hairs and can be rinsed off easily...

 

[Sam_Peanuts]

The dishgloves should be thick enough to stop most NW hairs and can be rinsed off easily...

+1, that's what I use when I need to put my hands in NW substrate and it has been protecting me well.

 

[Formerphobe]

I don't bother with gloves when doing regular feeding or maintenance. I use tongs.
If I'm going to handle used substrate or do more in depth maintenance I wear disposable nitrile gloves. You can get them in boxes of 100 or 200 at most drug stores. Order online from someplace like Amazon and they're even cheaper. It's not a big expense.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

You can buy those sort of light working gloves, i don't know... i never used, nor use, gloves or eye protection device. My hair kickers doesn't love to act as hair kickers. They are always pretty calm and lazy, except when food is inside.
Another story is my female Megaphobema robustum, not because she kicks hairs at me (she never did, she always literally bolt at minimum noise in her burrow) but because she leave hairs in her web near the burrow entrance, when in pre molt, or protection. So when doing routine maintenance or watering got few of those on my finger, much less hand.
But i love that itchy sensation and, imo, they are nothing when compared to some African mosquitos arrived here, lately.

 

[Yentlequible]

+1 on the nitrile rubber gloves. I use them when I water and clean all my enclosures, and they help out a ton. I only made the mistake once to wash 50+ water dishes with my bare hands. The brush scrubbed all the hairs straight into my hand. I even used those gloves for a particularly bad spider to pack up; a huge female Pamphobeteus. Even then my arms have been itchy for the last few days.

 

[Pociemon]

I think you will eventually end up with T´s without urt. hairs. When you start to feel painfull there is not much more you can do. Gloves and such things is only a help for a short period of time, it will only increase from now on.
I got to the point where i itched ALL night long allover my body and had respiratory problems on top of that. My fingers when haired by just a rosie sling got twice the normal size!
I only keep OW T´s now and avics.

 

[Poec54]

I almost always wear disposable X-large vinyl gloves when working with my spiders, primarily because I don't like handling crickets with my bare hands. Also keeps my hands clean when I set up new cages with top soil. I've never had a problem with hairs penetrating those gloves, and I have a good percentage of NW's including Theraphosa.

I wouldn't want to re-use any kind of gloves, as hairs would build up on them, and they'd eventually be as big a source, or bigger, than the spiders themselves.

 

[Sana]

I keep all of my tarantulas in my bedroom and have a couple of fans running most of the time. I've never had trouble with urticating hairs flying around, and we do have several bad kickers. They have honestly never managed to hair me, probably because I religiously use tongs with all of my tarantulas and don't put my hands anywhere near them. All of our rehousing or any major maintenance (substrate change if it's a desperate necessity, etc.) is done in the bathtub, keeping the hairs relatively contained and easily rinsed away. So far this has worked out for us without hair incidents. I suppose that if I were so inclined to use gloves during maintenance that I would go with the disposable nitrile variety since I have them hanging around the house already for working on cars without being permanently grease stained.

 

[miserykills]

+1 to the nitrile gloves. They work fine for everything, even Theraposa. I don't like the vinyl ones because they never seem to fit well.

 

[scott99]

I have a LP that kicks her hair's a lot and they have never effected me.

 

[Formerphobe]

+1 to not reusing due to them becoming a source.
Nitrile, latex or vinyl are also beneficial if you use any topical pesticides on any mammals in the house. Prevents inadvertent transmission of the pesticide to your inverts.

 

[Poec54]

+1 to not reusing due to them becoming a source.
Nitrile, latex or vinyl are also beneficial if you use any topical pesticides on any mammals in the house. Prevents inadvertent transmission of the pesticide to your inverts.

Right. I work with a lot of plants in the yard, and various things in the house, plus have cats and dogs. Part of the reason for me wearing gloves is that I don't expose my spiders to anything. Things like greasy fingers from eating food, or handling things, or soap residue or lotions. Lots of things you could have on your hands, and I don't want to be touching spider water bowls and risking getting even minute amounts of chemicals on them. Disposable gloves are cheap.

 

[viper69]

When I use gloves, I use latex gloves with a light powder on the inside. I hate non-powdered gloves.

 

[Ellenantula]

No gloves here -- not really in contact with much -- I use tongs to lift out water souffle cup to refill/replace. And I 'catch-cup' crix/roaches using small vials and just sort of 'pour/drop' them into enclosure for feeding. Even waxies or mealworms are lowered in with tongs. Not a lot of contact for me. I suppose I wash my hands before and after T maintenance (definitely wash hands after catching the feeders in their vials -- sorta get them all lined up and ready beforehand) and definitely wash hands afterwards 'just because'.

 

[Roosterbomb]

I'm wondering what the hairs feel like. Does it feel like nettles or something?

 

[Chris LXXIX]

I'm wondering what the hairs feel like. Does it feel like nettles or something?

I can talk only for those of my Megaphobema robustum.. that sometime, when removing the water dish with tongs i receive. Not. Nettles are worst for me.
A little redness, itchy but not even close to a mosquito, don't even last long. Now reactions can be different for others.

 

[TownesVanZandt]

I'm wondering what the hairs feel like. Does it feel like nettles or something?

It feels like some kind of isolation made of some sort of glass fiber that we use for houses in Norway. (I have no idea what the English term for this is). I do get a rash that keeps itching for around 3 days. It´s not really painful, but it is truly annoying.