Tarantula Shenanigans

Raghild

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So I accidentally spooked our Mexican Red Knee. I keep an emergency cup on top of the spider cabinet, but this is the first time I've had to use it.

She was well behaved at least. Normally she hair flicks at the slightest disturbance 😵

And of course me being me, the first thing I did was grab my camera 🤣

Anyone else want to share their tarantulas up to spider mischief?

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jennywallace

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Glad you managed to retrieve her and return to her enclosure. One of my T. sp. Angustum nearly escaped whilst rehousing the other day, fortunately I do all rehousings in the bath, so she would have been easy to catch if she had escaped.
 

Raghild

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Yeah, when I do rehousing I try to assume an escape will happen, so I'm not caught off guard if it does. My first rehousing was a psalmopoeus cambridgei, so that set the foundation of my rehousing experience 🤣

Same logic I used for keeping that cup up there. She's on a shelf in a cabinet. So having the cup on top within arms reach made for a quick and safe way to secure her without risking her bolting again and potentially falling.

Glad you managed to retrieve her and return to her enclosure. One of my T. sp. Angustum nearly escaped whilst rehousing the other day, fortunately I do all rehousings in the bath, so she would have been easy to catch if she had escaped.
Some definite shenanigans going on there 🫣
 

l4nsky

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Some definite shenanigans going on there 🫣
Much more than the picture shows lol. He actually went under the cart before working his way up the back to the top shelf. Placed his enclosure under the paper towels and slow walked him down, after the obligatory picture lol.
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This same animal also once took an impromptu strole across and under a vendor's table as a 4" juvie lol.
 

Charliemum

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Much more than the picture shows lol. He actually went under the cart before working his way up the back to the top shelf. Placed his enclosure under the paper towels and slow walked him down, after the obligatory picture lol.
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This same animal also once took an impromptu strole across and under a vendor's table as a 4" juvie lol.
Know your t's get numbers but should make an exception for him n call him Houdini 😆
 

l4nsky

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Know your t's get numbers but should make an exception for him n call him Houdini 😆
He's a little too far on in years for me to be getting that attached (he's been mature for quite some time), but he's definently a specimen that will be remembered well past his expiration date lol.
 

IntermittentSygnal

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Know your t's get numbers but should make an exception for him n call him Houdini 😆
That’s what my daughter nicknamed our versi before she was properly named. She only made it as far as a jump to the top of my hand, but she got a rap sheet for it.
 

Scoot

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Not my video, obviously, but the phrase "tarantula shenanigans" immediately made me think of Dave's Little Beasties cautionary Cobalt Blue rehousing...
 

LilithArachne

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Much more than the picture shows lol. He actually went under the cart before working his way up the back to the top shelf. Placed his enclosure under the paper towels and slow walked him down, after the obligatory picture lol.
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This same animal also once took an impromptu strole across and under a vendor's table as a 4" juvie lol.
If you photoshop the background to be dark he would look like he was from a horror video game!
 

Raghild

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Not my video, obviously, but the phrase "tarantula shenanigans" immediately made me think of Dave's Little Beasties cautionary Cobalt Blue rehousing...
Hah! The stopping to take photos is 100% me 🤣

I loved how he knew how she was going to react the moment he touched her with the brush.

I always always remind myself to respect the explosive speed of tarantulas. Even ones that aren't near as fast as that cobalt blue. They can be deceptively slow and meandering, until they aren't. 🫣
 
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