What are those white spots? Is that spider poo?

Leonardo the Mage

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Yep, that's tarantula feces. It isn't going to cause any problems other than just being an eye sore, unless it builds up really bad. Most people clean their enclosures once a year or every other year, sometimes even less often, since other than this the only things tarantulas do to soil their enclosures is leaving food bolos (pellets made of the inedible parts of dead prey, easily picked out with tweezers) and excessive webbing.
 

Frogdaddy

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Yep. They wait for you to wipe it up then run right back over and poop on the enclosure again and laugh.
 

Leonardo the Mage

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Yep. They wait for you to wipe it up then run right back over and poop on the enclosure again and laugh.
Pretty much. They also like to calmly asses as soon as they get into a new enclosure how best to destroy your hard work decorating it and drive you up the wall as they dig up the hide you built them and burry their water bowl at the very bottom of their enclosure upside-down.
 

Frogdaddy

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Pretty much. They also like to calmly asses as soon as they get into a new enclosure how best to destroy your hard work decorating it and drive you up the wall as they dig up the hide you built them and burry their water bowl at the very bottom of their enclosure upside-down.
Lol yeah that's a good one.
I think my favorite tarantula trick is when you finally get a species you've been dying to keep and observe and one the second day they barricade themselves im a sealed burrow and you don't see them for three months. Hilarious.
 

Danielhobbs1123

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Haha poo it is! My Ts are usually pretty decent with their leavings (and by that I mean they don't make it a point to turn them into will art).

I have this one avicularia though, she goes in the same spot every time and it happens to coat the front door of the enclosure. Its like she is out to make loo curtains instead of web curtains. Lol
 

Matt Man

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Haha poo it is! My Ts are usually pretty decent with their leavings (and by that I mean they don't make it a point to turn them into will art).

I have this one avicularia though, she goes in the same spot every time and it happens to coat the front door of the enclosure. Its like she is out to make loo curtains instead of web curtains. Lol
My Versi does the same. Avics and Versis are poop shooters
 
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