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Petko is an excellent videographer. That's where his skill really is.
If you are an established T keeper and then view some of his videos you'll appreciate those skills but see where the problems are with what some of his video's content is.
99.99% of tarantula uploaders on 'You
' are all about entertainment not correct information.
Tom Moran of 'Tom's Big Spiders' is about correct information or best methods that work and proven to work with rehouses, husbandry and general information. No glitter entertainment to keep short attention spanned people to keep watching.
The problem is not with experienced keepers going to 'You'. The BIG problem is with people that never intended to get involved with tarantulas or first time owners getting all their info from there instead of doing thorough research and finding Arachnoboards first.
Petko is a likeable person as quite a few are. So first time viewers that never owned a tarantula start on YT get pulled in by the person then the entertainment factor and assume they are getting correct information on every aspect. What they really get is entertainment as most of everyone here already knows.
Then they stumble into AB eventually and think they are being contradicted on what/if information they learned when provided with correct info.
Examples ...handling, 1 to 2 inch sling in a 10 gallon aquarium, rocks galore in enclosure with 12 inches or more from surface to top, Mississippi River running through the middle of their enclosure etc. etc
As irritated and mad it makes AB members there's no answer in sight how to stop it and the flow. Members have a right to be angered as YT and Facepuke puts the hobby in a very bad light misrepresenting it and those that take caring for these animals the best way possible serious.
If this trend in the U.S. keeps rising it highly contributes to the demise of responsible T keeping and the hobby as a whole.
I'm not stating this as fact it's simply my opinion.
Believe it or not back in 2018 that's how I got pulled into tarantulas. Suffering from severe arachnophobia I'm here to tell you searching for tarantula videos was never on my search list or agenda. The T videos just out of nowhere popped up on my recommended list.
Yes I watched those videos and was horrified. Because I watched those particular ones more popped up. Dark Den was one of them and yes I watched and then I was intrigued. From there I found 2 tarantula websites which AB was one of them. I literally spent one and a half years researching and reading. Purchased 'The Tarantulas Keeper's Guide' by the Schultz's before buying my first tarantula in December 2019.
PS. Truly sorry for this long winded post.
If you are an established T keeper and then view some of his videos you'll appreciate those skills but see where the problems are with what some of his video's content is.
99.99% of tarantula uploaders on 'You
' are all about entertainment not correct information.Tom Moran of 'Tom's Big Spiders' is about correct information or best methods that work and proven to work with rehouses, husbandry and general information. No glitter entertainment to keep short attention spanned people to keep watching.
The problem is not with experienced keepers going to 'You
'. The BIG problem is with people that never intended to get involved with tarantulas or first time owners getting all their info from there instead of doing thorough research and finding Arachnoboards first.Petko is a likeable person as quite a few are. So first time viewers that never owned a tarantula start on YT get pulled in by the person then the entertainment factor and assume they are getting correct information on every aspect. What they really get is entertainment as most of everyone here already knows.
Then they stumble into AB eventually and think they are being contradicted on what/if information they learned when provided with correct info.
Examples ...handling, 1 to 2 inch sling in a 10 gallon aquarium, rocks galore in enclosure with 12 inches or more from surface to top, Mississippi River running through the middle of their enclosure etc. etc
As irritated and mad it makes AB members there's no answer in sight how to stop it and the flow. Members have a right to be angered as YT and Facepuke puts the hobby in a very bad light misrepresenting it and those that take caring for these animals the best way possible serious.
If this trend in the U.S. keeps rising it highly contributes to the demise of responsible T keeping and the hobby as a whole.
I'm not stating this as fact it's simply my opinion.
Believe it or not back in 2018 that's how I got pulled into tarantulas. Suffering from severe arachnophobia I'm here to tell you searching for tarantula videos was never on my search list or agenda. The T videos just out of nowhere popped up on my recommended list.
Yes I watched those videos and was horrified. Because I watched those particular ones more popped up. Dark Den was one of them and yes I watched and then I was intrigued. From there I found 2 tarantula websites which AB was one of them. I literally spent one and a half years researching and reading. Purchased 'The Tarantulas Keeper's Guide' by the Schultz's before buying my first tarantula in December 2019.
PS. Truly sorry for this long winded post.
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