Who else here handles from time to time?

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Hell even fish breeders pick there fish up to examine them from time to time. I found this pic of my old LP this was about 15yrs ago now! So what are you holding? Sorry had to pull it from my IG.. This is not a pic thread by the way it's a handling thread that can include pics to show you participating in the subject matter. Screenshot_2020-11-21-00-11-55.png
 
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Poonjab

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Never handled a T willingly. Had some bolts that required hands. But other than that, no.
 

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I respect y'alls opinions.. I don't do it so leisurely anymore, pretty sure in that pic It was A saturday morning and back then I would chill with whatever T I wanted for 20-30 mins at a time.. Eventually most settle down and act like your just furniture in there cage.. Arboreals hate the feeling of skin though ime.. Specially avics.. I have video on my IG of me trying to coax out a female M type #6 onto my hand and she visibly recoiled when she touched it.. You observe interesting things like that and that's part of why I handle here and there.
 

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I've never deliberately handled one of my tarantulas. There was one time when my Avic juvie decided to come out of his enclosure and explore and I let him crawl on my hand for a few seconds, but that was it.
 

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I've never deliberately handled one of my tarantulas. There was one time when my Avic juvie decided to come out of his enclosure and explore and I let him crawl on my hand for a few seconds, but that was it.
Crazy how light they are right.. I had a MM C.versicolor run onto the back of my hand and I didn't notice till I looked at my hand as I was starting to move enclosures!
 

Tarantuland

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I tried when I first got them, but I had one bolt up my arm and my reaction was to shake it from my arm. So now I only do on accident. Like the other day when I rehoused a versicolor and it kept crawling on me or a few months ago I went to feed an L Klugi juvenile and when I opened the lid it was mysteriously on my hand
 
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Tarantuland

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Good save ;)
I mean im not proud of that but I didn't expect it to bolt or expect myself to try to flick my arm. I was sitting on the floor fwiw and it was an arboreal NW. I know I'm far from the only one who has had this experience but I hope anyone who reads this and doesn't know better won't make the same mistakes I did
 

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but I had one bolt up my arm and my reaction was to jerk it off.
Re-read the above stament and say it slowly in your head a few times, I think you will find poonjab was messin w ya.. Lol.. Yea I have the same knee jerk reaction unless I'm really focused..
 

viper69

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I respect y'alls opinions.. I don't do it so leisurely anymore, pretty sure in that pic It was A saturday morning and back then I would chill with whatever T I wanted for 20-30 mins at a time.. Eventually most settle down and act like your just furniture in there cage.. Arboreals hate the feeling of skin though ime.. Specially avics.. I have video on my IG of me trying to coax out a female M type #6 onto my hand and she visibly recoiled when she touched it.. You observe interesting things like that and that's part of why I handle here and there.
My juvi H chilensis leaves as soon as the lid is off- typical for this species. They too don’t like the touch of human flesh. Think it’s because we are too soft.
 

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My first A. avicularia shot out from its packaging and flew right up my arm once. It was my first arboreal/ semi speedy T and I definitely wasn’t expecting it to bolt up my arm. Never touched them bare handed unless it was an accident. That has also been the only accident.
 

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Just me I like to look at them and want to continue to be able to look at them, and just not on the floor with a ruptured abdomen, but safe in their enclosures.I have never handled one of my tarantulas.

My only political views are very Pro Anti-Splat
 
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