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I finally held my A. metallic for the first time. I've had it (not sure of sex) for a couple months now and have just held it for the first time.
I've apparently picked up and held a wild tarantula when I was a kid (Oklahoma Aphonopelma no doubt) but don't remember it, and I kind of consider this my first time to hold a tarantula.
I've gotten over arachnophobia by studying tarantulas and other spiders and tossing moths to spiders outside in the summer time. I think I'm pretty much completely over it. I used to "feel" spiders crawling on my legs and stuff in bed and would slap at them trying to kill them, but of course it was all in my head.
But no more! bye bye arachnophobia!
... I do admit though, I was pretty freakin nervous and maybe even a little scared :x
wasn't so bad though. I held it for like a minute and it wasn't difficult at all getting it on or off my hand/out of or back in the enclosure.
I've apparently picked up and held a wild tarantula when I was a kid (Oklahoma Aphonopelma no doubt) but don't remember it, and I kind of consider this my first time to hold a tarantula.
I've gotten over arachnophobia by studying tarantulas and other spiders and tossing moths to spiders outside in the summer time. I think I'm pretty much completely over it. I used to "feel" spiders crawling on my legs and stuff in bed and would slap at them trying to kill them, but of course it was all in my head.
But no more! bye bye arachnophobia!
... I do admit though, I was pretty freakin nervous and maybe even a little scared :x
wasn't so bad though. I held it for like a minute and it wasn't difficult at all getting it on or off my hand/out of or back in the enclosure.