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Arachnopeon
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- Sep 26, 2016
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I adopted (rescued) a Rose Hair(?) tarantula on Saturday, my 2nd T, at the encouragement of my wife strangely enough. The T is extremely docile/friendly, likes to sit around and climb a bit, and measures around 4" if her legs are laid flat apart.
The local pet store said she is thought to be 8 months old and the rest (including actual species name, wild or captive breed, sex, etc) are unknown as they were helping someone rehouse her/him. They assume she is a rose hair, which it appears to be.
We named her Harley, as it is unisex name, and is after Harley Quinn - my niece's favorite character. My niece has personally named many of my other pet spiders (arachnids) - so it was only fitting to name one related to her.
In the photos you can see how I got Harley - with gray duct tapped green wine box(?) with mold, cedar bedding chips (toxic to them), and five crickets. The photos are of her climbing/resting onto the tank side, she was not rearing back or making a defensive pose. Even after the trip home, moving her to another container to clean, and everything else - she has yet to act defensive.
Since bringing her home I finished scrubbing clean and setting her home up with a 4" hide (PVC), about 4" deep of mixed sphagnum/soil/sand for her to dig tunnels (and less height inside her home in case of a fall), and such. She appears much happier now, and I'll give her a better setup once she has time to adapt to her new surroundings.
My other T I named Georgena (or if need be George) I got back in October 12, 2016 from a local PetCo has been molting steadily, albeit very slowly growing in size.
Here are some more recent photos of her too, but she is ready to molt again so has been hanging out in her burrow..
I hate supporting pet stores and their treatment of tarantulas, but when I see them especially in such bad care I feel like I have to take them home. That just means their get another... I just need to quit looking and just buy crickets there and get my T's from the classifieds.
The local pet store said she is thought to be 8 months old and the rest (including actual species name, wild or captive breed, sex, etc) are unknown as they were helping someone rehouse her/him. They assume she is a rose hair, which it appears to be.
We named her Harley, as it is unisex name, and is after Harley Quinn - my niece's favorite character. My niece has personally named many of my other pet spiders (arachnids) - so it was only fitting to name one related to her.
In the photos you can see how I got Harley - with gray duct tapped green wine box(?) with mold, cedar bedding chips (toxic to them), and five crickets. The photos are of her climbing/resting onto the tank side, she was not rearing back or making a defensive pose. Even after the trip home, moving her to another container to clean, and everything else - she has yet to act defensive.
Since bringing her home I finished scrubbing clean and setting her home up with a 4" hide (PVC), about 4" deep of mixed sphagnum/soil/sand for her to dig tunnels (and less height inside her home in case of a fall), and such. She appears much happier now, and I'll give her a better setup once she has time to adapt to her new surroundings.
My other T I named Georgena (or if need be George) I got back in October 12, 2016 from a local PetCo has been molting steadily, albeit very slowly growing in size.
Here are some more recent photos of her too, but she is ready to molt again so has been hanging out in her burrow..
I hate supporting pet stores and their treatment of tarantulas, but when I see them especially in such bad care I feel like I have to take them home. That just means their get another... I just need to quit looking and just buy crickets there and get my T's from the classifieds.