get yourself a pink zebra beauty, they are never aggressive, and you can handle it all day... as for a smithi? theyre not known to be biters, but they throw hair all day, and prefer to have their abdomen showing signs of baldness. for the question of "are they handleable?" only you can decide that, a lot of my friends dont handle any of them, and that is wise. Ive dropped and killed one of mine. so I should have taken their advice.... Then again, I believe most things are "handleable", even the cobalt blue, which Ive been repeatedly warned against.tarachno said:
It really isn't waiting to be taken out and added virbrations in it's surroundings do confuse it. A tarantula isn't really a pet in the meaning of petting the spider...the spider react instinctively, every vibration it picks up is analysed. A small vibration is prey, a big one is a predator...to the tarantula we are predators, the only way to handle a spider is only when it is necessary. If you leave it alone it will not loose so much hair and it will be less stressfull, handling a T can make it jumpy and agitated. For what I know, the B.Smithii is handable, but always be careful, every spider can bite when triggered. Just do not provide the trigger. My G. Rosea is very handable but I do not take her out of her tank that much, only when I need to clean the tank she can walk around a bit on my bed, but even then I do not touch her that much. And it works fine this way, she has never been hairless, because she isn't stressed... 