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I had a B. smithi that i played with ever single day for a couple/few months straight. Some days i had it out for an hour, some days i had it out for 10 minutes.
You know what happened? It acclimated to handling and would actually climb out of the cage onto my hand. And it started off very nervous, indeed. Kick and scrunch were the order of the day. I probably picked up a good deal of my Brachy urt sensitivity from this little endeavor.
The spider ate like a champ and after a week stopped kicking hairs. It never developed a bald spot or anything.
Eventually i gave up driving it insane as a waste of effort.
The amusing thing is that EVERY tarantula i have handled a lot did the same thing... got more and more acclimated to me and eventually would actually "voluntarily" climb on to me when i opened the cage.
I am curious if anyone else has had this experience?
(i am bringing it up cuz i see a lot of snotty answers making jerks out of free handlers. the funny thing is that the ppl who would actually have experience are the ppl who handle bugs... like me. oh, and for the record... i have free handled thousands of times. as far as i know i have never hurt a tarantula because of it. so there.)
You know what happened? It acclimated to handling and would actually climb out of the cage onto my hand. And it started off very nervous, indeed. Kick and scrunch were the order of the day. I probably picked up a good deal of my Brachy urt sensitivity from this little endeavor.
The spider ate like a champ and after a week stopped kicking hairs. It never developed a bald spot or anything.
Eventually i gave up driving it insane as a waste of effort.
The amusing thing is that EVERY tarantula i have handled a lot did the same thing... got more and more acclimated to me and eventually would actually "voluntarily" climb on to me when i opened the cage.
I am curious if anyone else has had this experience?
(i am bringing it up cuz i see a lot of snotty answers making jerks out of free handlers. the funny thing is that the ppl who would actually have experience are the ppl who handle bugs... like me. oh, and for the record... i have free handled thousands of times. as far as i know i have never hurt a tarantula because of it. so there.)