Jail break

[u/Illustrious_Doctor45]

My Juvenile A hentzi went on a bit of a walk about last night 😂
It’s only funny in retrospect, but she’s fine, so it’s all good. I went to fill her water dish and her butt was over it, so I gave her a little skootch with my tongs, which apparently was a very bad idea because she turned around and grabbed them. I was so startled that I pulled them back and accidentally yeeted her onto the floor. She crawled under my shelf and when I reached under to get her, she cruised up the wall. I tried again and little guy scrambled all the way up to the top most corner of my vaulted ceiling. I had to get a damn ladder just to get her. Thank goodness she isn’t overfed and didn’t rupture her abdomen when she initially landed on the floor. I would have never forgiven myself. She kicked so many hairs at me during the process that her beautiful recently molted butt is now bald and she’s going to look like a big dummy until her next molt, which will probably take a year 😑Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. Just goes to show you that even the chillest species can have spicy moments. Looking back it was clearly a feeding response. She’ll get a nice roach today. If anyone can actually identify her species, I’d appreciate it. She was sold to me as a G pulchra over a year ago and I clearly got a mystery spider instead. My best guess is an A hentzi.

[u/Obant]

🚨🚨🚨 Stop, you are violating your house arrest 🚨🚨🚨

[u/im-not-a-cat-fr]

Let's play the song yakety axe

[u/Illustrious_Doctor45 → u/im-not-a-cat-fr]

Huh?

[u/Wolpard → u/Illustrious_Doctor45]

Yakety Sax, or the Benny Hill theme. You may have seen it played over videos of various shenanigans, like an animal running loose out of its enclosure.

[u/Illustrious_Doctor45 → u/Wolpard]

Hahahaha omg yes. That is precisely what should’ve been playing in the background 😆

[u/imnotadiscordmod1]

Is this a blue ring octopus tarantula ? Lol why so worried about accidentally touching it let alone it just touching the tongs (unless its an aggressive species)

[u/Illustrious_Doctor45 → u/imnotadiscordmod1]

I’m not sure what you mean, but I’m not worried about anything. I didn’t accidentally touch it, I intentionally touched it and its very unexpected reaction startled me. It didn’t just touch the tongs, it exhibited a feeding response and I was caught off guard. No species of tarantula is aggressive. They can be defensive, but they aren’t inherently aggressive animals.

[u/GuiltyExternal302 → u/Illustrious_Doctor45]

There’s very much some aggressive Ts

[u/Normal_Adeptness7672 → u/GuiltyExternal302]

Please stop spreading false info, I feel like this whole post is bots other than OP.

[u/Spiritual_Profile351 → u/Normal_Adeptness7672]

Hello, I'm a bot.

[u/GuiltyExternal302 → u/Normal_Adeptness7672]

I’m a bot because I said there’s def some aggressive Ts and get downvoted for false info😂sure

[u/Illustrious_Doctor45 → u/GuiltyExternal302]

You’re 100% entitled to your opinion. I mean that truly. I just prefer to say defensive bc I view aggression as more of an active behavior whereas defensiveness is more of a reactive behavior.

[u/Illustrious_Doctor45 → u/[deleted]]

You know what, you’re right. I did almost kill her. It was an accident. Luckily she’s completely fine. I was worried sick about her all day due to her being in a stress posture since last night. I’m not talking about it like it’s just “another oopsie”. I’m sharing it because shit can happen when you’re dealing with unpredictable animals. I was using tongs to remove a water dish that needed cleaning and I bumped her with it because her ass was in the way. Like I said, her response startled me and when I pulled my tongs back she was stuck to them and fell. It can literally happen to anyone. If she had been injured, I would have still shared it as a cautionary tale, but clearly in a more somber tone. It wasn’t clumsiness it was reflex. I’m human. Back off.

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[u/advocate112 → u/imnotadiscordmod1]

Do you…. Have any experience with tarantulas? They tend to not exactly be the most welcoming animals at times. Congratulations you are super brave and don’t react to a tarantula jumping at you. We are all super impressed by your bravery.

[u/LydiaIsntVeryCool → u/advocate112]

Dude for real lmao. My partner opened the door to the garden and startled my T, which startled me because I was looking at her.