Poecilotheria Bite

Irene B. Smithi

Irene B. Smithi

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bobusboy said:
Yea there is.

But it would cost you an arm and a leg plus your first born.
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IDK, but if I was really worried... I'd have a blood test ran. Better to know what's going on then not. I'm sure insurance would cover it if it was med. necessary per your doctor...

I missed it some where, how you got a bite? where you moving it, or cleaning the cage?? how did it happen?
 
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Stan Schultz

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Venom said:
I have to disagree--I see no reason to think that many species of tarantulas couldn't bite through light leather gloves. ...
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Our personal experience strongly suggests otherwise, but if you can collect conflicting reports, I'll gladly read them.
 
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I'm thinking the soft-leather of gloves is very different from hard leather of boots or steel mesh. The soft leather is flexible enough to give to the pressure of the fangs without them punching straight through. Wire mesh and hard leather I think would be easier to damage than soft malleable leather in a case like this. The T using normal bite force would hit soft leather and feel it give a little but offering resistance that it can't judge, maybe deterring it because something doesn't "feel" right. I dunno just a thought.

I have doubts a T would bite through a good pair of carhartts unless you had it extremely angry or to the point where it felt like it's life was pending on that bite, which if you have a T that angry you have to ask yourself if bothering it at that moment is necessary.
 
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Pikaia said:
Our personal experience strongly suggests otherwise, but if you can collect conflicting reports, I'll gladly read them.
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Video proof! Show me a T above 7" that can't bite through a thin leather glove. I'll be astounded.
 
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You could also have localized swelling, affecting the nerves which run through the wrist, giving pins and needles...
 
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Venom said:
Video proof! Show me a T above 7" that can't bite through a thin leather glove. I'll be astounded.
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Why "thin" leather? Why even buy a thin leather glove? I have no doubt a tarantula could bit through soft, thin leather, but why even bother with such a glove?
I'd like to see a video of a 7" T biting through a standard leather work glove.

I've taken shed fangs, and tried to force them through a leather glove and couldn't do it...I'm pretty sure that I'm stronger than your
average C. crawshayi.
 
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JimM said:
Why "thin" leather? Why even buy a thin leather glove? I have no doubt a tarantula could bit through soft, thin leather, but why even bother with such a glove?
I'd like to see a video of a 7" T biting through a standard leather work glove.

I've taken shed fangs, and tried to force them through a leather glove and couldn't do it...I'm pretty sure that I'm stronger than your
average C. crawshayi.
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I said "thin" leather gloves, because I was responding to this post:

it's always a good idea to wear light, leather gloves (e.g., driver's, garden, or work gloves, see http://www.acehardware.com/family/in...goryId=1260431 for examples) whenever the cage is open
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Of course, it depends on the glove in question, and the tarantula in question. But if I can take an awl, or an ice pick and --EASILY-- push a hole in "light leather" with a relatively dull instrument, I don't see why a tarantula with quite sharp "instruments" couldn't do likewise, especially when we know those little 3" funnelwebs in Oz can do it. Unless there's something uber-special about funnelweb jaws/ fangs that makes them more able to penetrate leather than our tarantulas ( which range up above 11", and so should have MUCH more bite-through ability), I don't see how "light leather" gloves will be much protection against a decent-sized T bite.
 
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That's it, we need a C. crawshayi/leather glove shoot out.
 
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peocilotheria bite

As a former seller of gloves for industrial applications- split-leather, pig skin and deer offer the best puncture resistance. The down-side is loss of manual dexterity......deerskin offering the best.

I don't know what kind of pressure a t can exert (and don't really want to find out), but I use split-leather gloves in my garden when I cut back my bougainvillea and lime tree. These have VERY sharp thorns upwards of 2-3" long- and they have punctured my gloves on numerous occasions- although not nearly with the results of being non-gloved.

As for kelvar gloves as someone suggested, kevlar is generally cut-resistant not puncture. There are other materials that are puncture resistant (for needles and such), such as hexArmor, but very few gloves offer protection in areas other than fingertips and palm. There are a couple that offer full protection, but they run well above $100 per pair.
 
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