Forum: Tarantula Chat

What is the worst or funniest advice you've ever gotten from an under-informed pet shop employee? Mine would have to be one of these two statements. Both were said by the same girl and are somewhat paraphrased here: A: "That there Tiger Rump molted yesterday. It looked like it was having a...

I have been looking for an arachnid to go in my room. so my question is this: What t would be the best eater, while still being handleable? I would not be handling regularly, only on occasion.

Just curious how many members of this forum have been bitten? And what were you bitten by? How did it happen and could you have avoided it? Also if you haven't been bitten yet please reply that you haven't so I get a feel for the percentage of T owners that have been bitten compared to ones who...

Hello all, I'm new to the forum but have been reading various posts for about a week now...I want a T (my first) and i've narrowed down my list to the A. Versicolor. I also decided that why should I stop at 1? Tarantulas aren't very expensive and fairly easy to care for so lets go for two...an...

So, some of you might remember me posting that I've a friend who's actually afraid coming over here anymore because of the T's. Well, she visited last weekend and eventually got "bold" enough to check on the T's after looking through the collection of molts I've stored in a box here. Due to the...

Hi, my name is Rocco and am from PA. I have had about 3 tarantulas so far, long ago. 1 pink-toed and 2 rose-haired. I got them when I was kinda young, so I can't say I took great care of them. The first rose haired I don't remember how it died. But then I got the pink-toed, which was awesome. It...

I'm thinking about getting two slings. Are they nice t's to add to my collection?

Right now I have a Chilean Rose Hair, and I'm really interested in getting another T. Specifically, I want to buy a sling. I've been reading up on A. versicolors and the only reason I might not want one is that I hear they just kinda... Well, they just die. But I've also heard the secret to keeping...

Basically when you get a lot of T's do you quit naming them and just call them by their scientific names? I have T's in the double digits and I'm starting to lean on not naming any more. I'd really like to hear what you guys and gals do.

I just got my male GBB and it looks like it is dehydrated or something, its butt is really small, and it doesn't look so good! I put a cricket in their but it seems too weak to catch it. What do I do?

So i currently have a G.Rosea, which is cool and everything but its abit boring (hasnt moved from one spot in 3 days) so im looking for the perfect display T.. and i have a tank ready for a terrestrial species. So im after a T that does cool things like burrows, normally active, aggressive...

Ok so I got my first tarantula around 15 years ago, but started seriously collecting/hobbying a few year ago due to the increased availability of different species an information the "Internet generation" has afforded me, as 15 years ago all that was available was usually pet shops and either a...

So your tarantula, I'm sure, has a name. (Unless you just use the scientific one, which is fine.) But where did the origin of the name come from? For example: My tarantulas with origin names. Asian Smokey Female: Her name is Morgan. Like Morgan Freeman. She got this name because she is dark,...