Goggles and handling/manipulation

[PhobeToPhile]

Do you consider goggles overkill when handling species like G. pulchripes? My parents are adamant that when I handle/manipulate my new pet, at least for now I should wear goggles. Thing is, I ALREADY wear glasses, and it's hard to find gogles I can wear well with them on.

 

[Croaton]

..... I would say no... goggles are not needed lol.

Unless you like putting your eyeballs real close to the spider while aggravating it, causing it to kick hairs into your retina haha :razz:

 

[HotPocket]

I just try to keep them away from my face. It has worked so far.

 

[rk1983]

You don't need goggles. But if your T kicks hairs on your hand, DON'T rub your eyes.

 

[grayzone]

with owning any new world tarantula, ya get to deal with the possibility of gettin hairs kicked at ya. Some you may NEVER see kick hairs and some are notorious. i always just keep my face away while opening the lid of a tank ( as hairs may float around) and that has worked just fine. goggles are HIGHLY extreme in my opinion and i think ya could definitely do without, then again im NOT your parent and you gotta fly by their rules. theyre lookin out for ya andYOUR PARENTS are the ones payin bills SHOULD something bad happen. id think your glasses are plenty of eye protection to block the hairs even if some got kicked. EVEN IF YOU ARE A HANDLER, keep it as far from your face as possible and youll be alright. good luck wit the ts ( and your parents)

 

[LirvA]

I personally would consider it and wouldn't lol by any means at someone who does wear them.

I'm thinking it would really really suck to get hairs in your eye.

 

[ElevenBravo]

I personally think that's extreme with a chaco my two are too skeered to kick hairs youd have to be mighty rough to even get mine to kick hairs. I always make sure that I don't touch my face until after washing my hands. Hairs in the eyes would suck big time.

If you had a hair kicking demon of a T it might be different. Still though it is your parents house they do get to make the rules.

 

[esotericman]

Pubmed has several articles on ocular scaring from urticating setea, but only a few.

Is there a real risk, yes. Have I ever used goggles? No. I would suggest being aware of what the animal is doing and what the air in the room is doing. Ceiling fans are not to be trusted, as the back of my neck can attest to from a B. smithi photo session!

 

[advan]

with owning any new world tarantula

I wouldn't say "any."

 

[LirvA]

I only have an A. metallica right now but want to get a C. fasciatum and might get some sort of eye protection for that. Wouldn't handle, but have a ceiling fan in room and I know they love to kick.

 

[synyster]

with owning any new world tarantula, ya get to deal with the possibility of gettin hairs kicked at ya.

Avicularia do not "kick". Psalmopoeus, Tapinauchenius and all Ischnocolinae have no urticating setae

 

[BrynWilliams]

i'd say it totally depends on what T it is, and what they're like.

a couple of my specimens produce vast clouds of hairs at the slightest disturbance - if i was to be moving/packing these i wouldn't think goggles were a bad idea. gloves and long sleeves are what i usually go with though for the vast majority

 

[LirvA]

Avicularia do not "kick".

I think I've read somewhere actually of some report or reports of an avic kicking hairs ... can't remember if it was here on AB or in TKG, but I know I read it somewhere. Don't remember any details though.

But yeah, and the Avics have the weakest (for lack of better term) hair of any Ts, as I understand it.

 

[synyster]

I think I've read somewhere actually of some report or reports of an avic kicking hairs ... can't remember if it was here on AB or in TKG, but I know I read it somewhere. Don't remember any details though.

But yeah, and the Avics have the weakest (for lack of better term) hair of any Ts, as I understand it.

I think there has been one or two reports on kicking Avic's but this isin't normal behaviour. They do posses urticating setae but they will normally rub it on someone/something with a direct contact of their abdomen to the surface.

Only the genus I mentioned after do not possess any. The ischnocolinae regroup: Catumiri - Chaetopelma - Hemiercus - Heterothele - Holothele - Ischnocolus - Nesiergus - Oligoxystre - Plesiophrictus - Sickius.

It was a pointer to mention that not all NW's have hair to kick

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I only have an A. metallica right now but want to get a C. fasciatum and might get some sort of eye protection for that. Wouldn't handle, but have a ceiling fan in room and I know they love to kick.

And btw, my C.fasciatum never once kicked at me in 5 years Now i'm not saying that this is the case of all of this genus, but lots of individuals tend to be calmer on kicking than, say, B.bohemei for example...

 

[advan]

I think I've read somewhere actually of some report or reports of an avic kicking hairs ... can't remember if it was here on AB or in TKG, but I know I read it somewhere. Don't remember any details though.

But yeah, and the Avics have the weakest (for lack of better term) hair of any Ts, as I understand it.

Yes, some Avicularia do kick. Most of what I read has been A. versicolors kicking, but others have done it also. I agree it isn't common though.

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