mantisfan101
Arachnoprince
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On my 13th birthday, I got my first and only T- an A. Seemani at petco. It was a juvenile, about 2 inch legspan, and I named him Schroeder. He molted a few weeks later and one week, during the end of July, I decided to leave the lid on his enclosure open because the substrate was really damp and wet for some wierd reason. We went out to dinner that night and halfway during the meal I realized- I left the lid open. I had to endure and hour of keeping a straight face after that and as soon as I got home, I checked his enclosure and sure enough he was missing. My parents found out soon enough and searched the whole house to no avail. They were absolutely furious at me and that was literally the only policy that they had about keeping the tarantula(that and that it couldn’t kill anyone). Surprise surprise, my dad decided to go use the bathroom and 11 pm at night and guess who he found staring at him on the floor? The result was a dead tarantula and a strict “no more tarantuls or scorpioms ever again.” Vinegaroons and whipspiders are okay since neither can climb glass and neither can kill you. All other insects are okay as long as they were legally obtained so yeah. Now I’m focusing on collecting native species of mantids(Texas and arizona unicorns), Amblypygids, vinnies, ant colonies, madascar hissing cockroaches, millipedes, native giant silk moths, native beetles(lucanus anyone?), and various other inverts. I have kept some larger wolf spiders from time to time but my mom quickly put an end to that so I collect them as feeders for my ant colonies. As disappointed as I am, it was only right of them to do so. I respect them and come to think of it, owninf a tarantula at 13 years of age does seem rather far fetched. What other stories do you guys have?