Times when your T has made you laugh out loud...

[Rochelle]

One of the funniest things I can remember happening, was when we were unpacking a large shipment of tiny G.rosea slings - and one of them was so Napoleonic that it actually thought it was a fearsome beastie.
At about .5" it threw up such a fierce threat display that it fell over backward and kept the pose for about 10 minutes!! They were hatched on Halloween day and since it was such a big-brave spidey, we decided to keep it and name it "Sabbath." It's attitude hasn't changed any over the last year, either.. We enjoy the daylights out of this little bugger, LOL!

This is a fun thread, Ethan! Thanks for starting it. :clap:

 

[the nature boy]

One of my 2" OBTs used to throw some pretty impressive threat postures. That, in itself, seemed funny to me since it was a rather small spider, but what would really give me a good laugh would be the times that it would rear back so far, that it would fall on its back and stay in its posture.

Yeah, I have to say the main reason I like defensive/aggro/whatever species is because of when they cop attitude. It's like there's this little thing that I could flatten in a second that's flipping me the bird, lol. Have to love it!

 

[Elleken]

My aphonopelma sp "paysoni" likes to take as many crickets as it can fit in its mouth then strut around all proud. I find this absolutely hilarious it honestly acts like it is the biggest baddest thing out there when it gets all three cricks in its mouth. Then this morning it was hovering over its water dish cleaning itself. I laughed so hard at it thinking of it as it taking a little bath. It is definitely the most hilarious t I have.

 

[Julia]

I caught my A. seemanni taking a bath this morning also! (This is the same one I posted about grooming herself all the time and scratching her butt. Never a dull moment here.) She was all poised over the water dish and I looked over in time to see her carefully dipping one leg in the water....then dipping another leg in the water....then she crouched down and dipped her butt in the water! I've often observed her soaking wet and I assumed maybe she fell in while taking a drink?? In any case, after she was done bathing, she got down and spent 10 minutes cleaning her spinnerettes.

The best part about all this is that she used to be the perfect pet rock. Now I can't wait to go in there and see what I can catch her doing!

 

[Julia]

My mom named one of my T's... *facepalm*

Was it a good name?

 

[LeilaNami]

Another one I forgot. I would catch my rosie grooming herself. She would reach behind, scratch her booty, and then clean the foot she scratched with. Scratch. Chew. Repeat.

 

[ph0bia]

T's shouldn't poop in their burrow, in fact it's quite unlikely they will. They usually make a special journey away from the burrow, do it, then return.

My B.Auratum is a little comic. She tends to climb the sides of the enclosure, then tries to do a spiderman across the little plastic lid in the centre. She can't grip the plastic upsidedown, but can hold the vertical bits where the plastic dips to allow me to hold it to open it. Thus, she hugs onto these bits with her feet, rather than the ceiling. Then stops as she realises she can't go anywhere and kind of hangs on for dear life muttering, "Oh god, help me...".

Also, when basking, she doesn't just stand there, she properly lays flat-out, so much so that her legs often curl upwards. Forgive the low quality of the attached image, all I have is my phone.

EDIT: From most pictures I see of B.Auratum and B.Smithi, most people leave them relatively dark as with other species. I'm sure most know, but these two and more, love to bask in the sunlight. =)

EDIT EDIT: Does anyone know why my B.Auratum does this strange basking? Do others view similar behavior (ie it's perfectly natural) or is it a quirk mine has, or worse, is there an issue?

 

[slinky1000]

rosie

once put a locust in tank for my rosie, where all it decided to do was lift it's leg to allow the locust to pass, not once, but many many times, and to see the locust walking across the T's back too! it ended up dying of old age!!!

 

[slinky1000]

mine too

Another one I forgot. I would catch my rosie grooming herself. She would reach behind, scratch her booty, and then clean the foot she scratched with. Scratch. Chew. Repeat.

mine does that on a regular basis... love watching it!

 

[Neophyte]

I had to revive this thread :3

Just now I fell upon my A. Seemanni (who is currently making his burrow) with a whole bunch of substrate in his mouth (I think, otherwise he was just holding it close to there, but whatever.. xD) When he realized he was being watched he dropped the clump of substrate and scuttled up, making him and a bunch of substrate fall back into the hole. Poor little guy! But I couldn't help but laugh x3

 

[Beardo]

Today I unpacked a little A. versicolor sling....I unpack all my slings in my bathroom sink so I can keep track of any runaways better, and I was about 1/2 way through unpacking 30 vials.....I unwrap the versi in its paper towel tube and it just kind of sits there for a second and then very casually strolls across my sink, passing up several empty vials, walks around my tweezers, and then comes upon the housing vial I had prepared for it....it walks up to the vial, touches it with its front 2 feet and then calmy climbs up the side and into the vial and just sits on the plastic leaf inside as if to say "There, I'm home now.".....it was rather amusing to me lol.

 

[jb7741]

I have a .5 inch or so rosie. I put a small cricket in the pill vial. The rosie starts walking around the edge of the vial. The cricket started walking also along the edge of the vial. Basically the cricket walked just fast enough to keep ahead of the T. They did this at least 10 laps before I put the bottle down.

Came back after feeding the others and the rosie had the cricket. I thought it was pretty cute.

 

[CodeWilster]

After reading a few of the posts it sounds like my story has been somewhat taken but anyway I too have had a wonderful experience with my A. versicolor.

My girlfriend thought it was the cutest thing when it was a little hopping blue baby; until that day, the day she decided to get a "closer look" and got a nice versi poo shot right in her face (forehead/cheek). errr I mean sorry honey

I've got a huge collection and have ALMOST been pooped on maybe a couple times but never had it actually get me. But for some reason she is like a magnet to it (I wish I could say I trained them ). Maybe her perfume contains a poop pheromone lol Here's the list of little fecal flingers that seem to really not like her:

A. versicolor
A. avicularia (this one barely missed)
G. iheringi
P. parvula (this thing is like a rock I still can't believe it got her)

I'll keep adding to the list as she periodically visits!!!

 

[ph0bia]

I had an amusing one with my G.rosea this morning, hence the revival of this topic.

I put a locust into the enclosure, last one I have (and it's in a bit of bad shape, lost both it's jumper legs - need to go buy more this afternoon). The hopper lands and she darts for it as if she's going to take it, then just creates a cage around it with her pedipalps and front four legs.

A few seconds later, the hopper bottles up the courage and makes a run for it out from her legs to the other side of the enclosure. She darts after it and creates the cage again.

This continues for quite a while, the hopper even starts to climb the side, at which point she flicks it down with her pedipalps so it's beneath her, then cages it again until it runs off!

Eventually she got bored and ate it.


It also brings to mind one time my P.chordatus was a real cruel girl in her old enclosure. She'd made a tunnel of web under the leaves of a plant against the side. I dropped a hopper in which she slapped with her legs, flipping the hopper over. She then turned around and webbed very lightly over its belly, not much, just enough to keep the hopper held down... Then walked off as if to say "That's what you get for disturbing me... Now you wait there until I can decide what to do with you..."


That chordatus is cute. If you try poking her to move her or whatever, she drums on her webs rather than threat-displays. If I'm doing work in the enclosure, she comes out of her burrow to investigate, but I'm happy to work with my hands as if she thinks I'm too close for her (or perhaps she doesn't agree with my aesthetic tastes ) she slaps my hand with her front legs. To this day, she's never displayed against me, she'll slap my hand away and drum on her webs, but that's all. =)

 

[Tapahtyn]

When we first got an A. avic, I took him out of the cage to hold him and my 11yr old daughter was standing in front of him. This was before we knew they shot poo, and it hit her in the neck. Mind to say she freaked out and thought he shot webbing at her. LOL. Since then we have both been pooped on several times by other Ts. It's cold!!! How strange yet funny

 

[jrmrbcax]

When my 4" OBT lays on its back and hisses at me.

 

[ph0bia]

Hisses?

But yes, it is cute when a spider falls on its back doing that, I remember my H.albostriatum doing it. She was tiny.

 

[Marcink125]

ya.... tarantulas are silly little creatures.

 

[jr47]

I think the only one that ever made me really laugh was a G. Rosea I had years ago. I would clean its tank and it would come running after what ever I was using. No threat display, it would head bunt whatever was there over and over and then walk off real slowlike it was bad.
I realized it never tried to bite so I would stick my finger in there and wiggle it around and here she would come and she would stop 2 or 3 inch's away and raise her body up stick her but in the air and charge. Me and the kids would laugh our heads off. She would do this over untill I guess she felt victorious then she would go away and ignore me till the next time.
I realize now that she was very unusual but very funny.

 

[ph0bia]

Yeah, I've noticed that my Chile Rose raises her abdomen when running after prey too... I guess it's for extra ground clearance as they run?

xD Love how she charges at you!