weird tarantulas

[Azolachifulai]

Idk why my gramastola pulchripes is doing a defensive position i didn't do anything



is this a normal behavior for a grammostola pulchripes all I did was open it's enclosure. before I opened it's enclosure I did nothing it was already making a threat pose it just did it for no reasons

 

[BoyFromLA]

Yes.

To tarantulas, you are the ‘threat’ itself.

 

[Hakuna]

You scared it when you opened it’s enclosure and then took its hide away. It chose to threat posture at you instead of freezing or running away from you.

 

[Azolachifulai]

haha ok

You scared it when you opened it’s enclosure and then took its hide away. It chose to threat posture at you instead of freezing or running away from you.

It was already like that before I opened its enclosure

I took its hide away so I could get a better look

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[Smotzer]

Leave it alone, clearly it feels threatened and is being defensive for some reason, although not usually unprovoked.

 

[Buffalo Ts]

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That substrate looks a little moist for the species... But maybe be it's just the image.

The T doesn't want to be bothered, and it's letting you know. I personally wouldn't be surprised at a threat posture ever. If you are disturbing the T in any way, it may react that way.

 

[Poonjab]

There has been times I’ve walked into my T room and my h.pulchripes is in threat pose. Might be a ghost in there messing with her.

 

[thatdadlife619]

My G. pulchripes can be a little devil from time to time without a doubt

 

[Hakuna]

haha ok



It was already like that before I opened its enclosure

I took its hide away so I could get a better look

Here

Then leave it alone. It’s obviously frightened.

 

[Matt Man]

"I didn't do anything other than stuff a stick into it's house and raise it up a bit".....
see the stick in the picture?That's doing something
I have 2 Grammastolas, Pulchripes and Pulchra, my pulchripes is way crankier than my pulchra.
I think like Rosea, there is gonna be a certain % that aren't the docile critters the genus is known to be

 

[Jess S]

I've had more threat poses from the so called "docile" species, including G pulchripes.
Trying to feed t's that are in premoult can also cause them to rear up at the prey, or you. I avoid doing that but not all species show obvious signs straight away, and sometimes the first clue you notice is a rather grumpy, distinctly ungrateful reaction to food.

 

[KeGathings17]

Don't forget, tarantulas sense the world through vibrations. She might just be more sensitive to YOU walking by, doing something else near her, or really almost anything in the room itself will trigger some kind of response from her. Most of my T's will flee into their hides whenever I simply open my bedroom door, or even stand over them. I'm sure if they were more inclined to, they would show me a threat posture, they just don't, not sure why. Leave her alone, she is just being a tarantula.

 

[Tarantulasora]

Tarantulas do that sometimes. I walked in the room to find my t blondi threat posturing at nothing. My g pulchara will threat posture for hours for no damn reason.

 

[Royalty]

It could have felt your footsteps. My h.mac would bolt as soon as I stepped on the one floorboard. My g.pulchripes also tends to hide as soon as it knows I am around. Mine has lots of substrate and dug itself quite a large burrow.

 

[Kibosh]

Owned one G. Pulchripes and it was the most aggressive T in my collection at the time, which included several OW's. Not to say they are all that way, but definitely a dice roll temperament T.

 

[Matt Man]

Owned one G. Pulchripes and it was the most aggressive T in my collection at the time, which included several OW's. Not to say they are all that way, but definitely a dice roll temperament T.

Grammastolas seem to have a 10% psycho ratio

 

[HeartBum]

All tarantulas are weird, period. They do weird stuff for seemingly no reason. That’s the fun of them! Seems you just disturbed it though

 

[DomGom TheFather]

Everybody has a bad day once in a while.

 

[matypants]

Lots of responses correctly assessing the situation. I’ll add this - instead of opening the enclosure, next time why not take a flash less photo for yourself and call things even? Either way, nice spider.