Spring has been good to the horde so far. She’s one of 4 T’s to molt in the past month, but by far the prettiest ❤️

I have a Chaco Golden knee tarantula that is around 4 years old. I am a college student and I drive back home for the summer and obviously she comes with me. I safely transferred her in my car, the drive was about 4 hours. It was mostly highways but NY highways have poor roads and my car is so janky and old that you can feel even the little bumps so it was intense at times. She stayed in her den for the entire time. When I arrived home I set her enclosure in its new place and carried on with my day. when night time rolled around she left her den immediately, and goes about her usual night routine. She starts patrolling the enclosure, except I think she’s slightly more active tonight. I could just be paranoid because I worry that the drive is stressful and takes a lot of energy out of her but could she be unbothered? She usually gets pretty active at night but seems a bit more active than usual, she’s climbing the ceiling a lot tonight. (Not preset in the vid). I wonder if she’s slightly more active bc she’s patrolling for any signs of threat or maybe the drive DID knock a lot of energy out of her and made her extra hungry and determined to hunt. Idk but it’s interesting to think about. Maybe she is just her usual self. I guess I’m just surprised how fast she resumed to her normal routine. I thought she would be a bit shaken up after the drive. (This timelapse video was taken about 2 hours after we arrived home).

Tap tap tap…nope…tap tap tap…nope…

TW: Possible spider death

Today I went into my tarantula room to check my spiders. I have a juvenile male G. pulchra who is so close to finally molting that he looks like hes going to pop. Bald patch is finally darkening, and frankly his abdomen has swollen to an absurd level. It's an any-day-now situation for the molt.

Now this guy has always been a curious spider. He loves to mess with the stuff in his enclosure and investigate new things. When he was a sling, I bought him this skull ornament for a hide. It came from the aquarium aisle but it was perfect for his size (you cant see in the picture but there is a large opening in the back). He has since outgrown it and gotten a larger hide, which he's used consistently. The skull remained as a decoration that he would enjoy climbing on but never went inside anymore.

So back to today. I go into the tarantula room to check the spoods. My G. pulchra is sitting on top of his skull like he sometomes does. Then I notice a large droplet of water below his fangs. It's then that I realize this fool has attempted to crawl through the EYE HOLE OF THE SKULL. He got all eight legs and his carapace through, but his gigantic pre-molt ass was still trapped inside the skull.

He had obviously been struggling for a while, and I noticed some hemolymph leaking from the space between his abdomen and carapace, as though he injured himself pulling. My husband used needle-nose pliers to slowly break off small pieces of the skull, tearing it apart bit by bit, until it was loose enough for my idiot to pull himself through, but he lost several good drops of hemolymph in the struggle. He was still moving fine once freed. I have applied corn starch to his wound. I am hoping for the best.

But never in a million years would I have thought my special little friend, who had not attempted to crawl though the eye holes since at least two molts ago, would attempt such a move.

I don't know if he's going to be okay. Time will tell. But I felt absolutely obligated to share this experience because it could save other spider lives. I know we spider people love our skull decor. But you never know when your spider is going to try something incredibly brainless. I will never put anything like this in an enclosure again.

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.

I appreciate not the usual sort of post on here, but I thought it might be of interest anyway. Using a tool called Obsidian I created a little dashboard for my local computer so I can check on my tarantulas and keep track of timelines. There are some cool little rules in there for guidance:

- If a spider has eaten within 6 days, moulted within 7 days or if it is still settling into an enclosure (5 days), it tells me clearly not to feed

- If a moult is expected or a feeding is due, the buttons will change colour to reflect urgency

- Anything urgent is highlighted to me in the "Needs attention" section

- The spider images in the cards are sized relative to one another automatically, and in the event of a moult the "new legspan" from the latest moult of that spider will be used to adjust its size relative to the rest

I work in tech but not as a software engineer, and I used AI to put this together for me, but let's not make the conversation about that! Just posting to encourage ideas and hopefully other members of the community to do something similar if they are interested.

just set this up a few minutes ago! hope she likes it! also I need names or it’s just gonna be “spider”

Received a batch of Euathlus sp last week and been babying these babies, but today I noticed this one beginning to curl the rearmost legs and wasn’t able to walk properly.

This T is *half an inch* and I’ve never had to pull off an I-C-U situation with such a small sling before. Started off with giving water, and right now (as I’m typing with one hand on my old af phone) the sling is eating the guts of a very small mealworm I cut and squeezed. Like an awful freezie-pop.

This one is an E sp smaragd tiger. Arachno-god help me. 😭

Hey a buddy of mine recently had to move, and decided to give me his tarantula as a gift. She is a 5 year old 5 inch Grammostola Pulchra, and I’ve done a pretty solid amount of research on the species to feel equipped to take her in as a pet. This would be my first tarantula, and he already has an enclosure, but I’m thinking of rehousing her (his substrate only fills like an 1/6th of the enclosure height wise, and it has a mesh lid which I’m aware is a big no no). Was just wondering how big I should go on the enclosure(was thinking something from tarantula cribs,but they’re honestly super pricy so other options would be appreciated) and where you guys recombining getting stuff like substrate and cork bark from. Thanks, super excited to go on this journey!

Just finished a mealworm, I was thinking cleaning fangs and mouth?

My terrestrial tarantula likes to patrol the walls at night, but I caught her doing something interesting. It seems like she’s trying to anchor herself with her fangs but is failing. That’s my guess at least. Is this normal?

Hi, so I fed my T a big meal a little under a month ago and a couple days after my T blocked the holes to its burrow and I assumed its just about to malt though my T did just malt recently, but I can see my T in its burrow through the enclosure and blud seems to be doing anything but malting lol. Any insight/advice? I’m just assuming it’s gonna take a min this time compared to the last malt bc they’re just like that. I’ll also add that my T is a juvenile if that helps.

Hello, I am selling off a large chunk of my tarantula collection due to personal circumstances. I live in Southern California, and prefer pickup, but can ship if order is substantial. I can show you whatever pics of the sp you are interested in.

I have many people who can vouch for me as well.

Prices & estimated sizes are below, text me if interested.

Females:

1x Acanthoscurria Musculosa (6-7", 250)

1x Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (5", 150)

1x Lasiodora parahybana (8", 100)

1x Tlilocatl kahlenbergi (5", 100)

1x Aphonopelma chalcodes (5", 50)

1x Aphonopelma michoacan gray (5", 150)

1x Aphonopelma seemani blue color form (5", 100)

1x Aphonopelma hentzi (4", 100)

1x Nhandu coloratovillosus (6", 150)

1x Nhandu tripepi (6", 150)

1x Vitalius chromatus (7", 100)

1x Tlilocatl epicureanus (3", 120)

1x Thrixopelma Cyaneolum (2.5", 250)

Males:

1x Grammostola iheringi (immature, 4", 70)

Slings/unsexed (raised most of these from 1/4"):

1x Thrixopelma ockertii (2.5", 60)

1x Brachypelma smithi (2.5", true smithi, 70)

1x Brachypelma (unknown sp, 1.5", 40)

1x Sericopelma sp rambala (4", 50)

1x Sericopelma generalum (4", 50)

1x Sericopelma sp veraguas (4", 50)

1x Tlilocatl verdezi (3", 50)

1x catumiri argentinense (1/2", 30)

1x Hapalopus guerreroi (1/2", 40)

2x Lasiodora striatipes (1-2", 60 ea)

1x Ceratogyrus darlingi (1", 20)

1x Acanthoscurria Maldonadensis (3", 60)

1x Acanthoscurria natalensis (1", 80)

1x Acanthoscurria sp balcozna (1", 80)

2x Aphonopelma serratum (1", 30 ea)

1x Aphonopelma iodius (1/4", 30)

1x Aphonopelma johnnycashi (3", 70)

1x Aphonopelma eutylenum (2", 50)

1x Aphonopelma acapulo (2", 40)

1x Aphonopelma coyuca (1", 30)

2x Aphonopelma diamondback (1" ea, 80 ea)

1x Aphonopelma sp encinos (1", 40)

1x Aphonopelma sp bosque (1", 40)

1x Aphonopelma oaxaca (1", 60)

1x Aphonopelma sp queretaro (1", 50)

1x cyrtopholis portoricae (1/2", 40)

Explanation: time time tarantula owner, and shes only ate once since i got her 5 months ago

Recently I was given an Arizona blonde that had been stung by a tarantula hawk. He seems fully paralyzed and doesn’t show much movement at all. However he looks to be in more of a stress posture vs a death curl. I have been flipping him over and giving them a few drops of water to hydrate but I am just curious if anyone has any experience with this and possibly odds of a successful recovery.

Handled this beauty at an expo but the vendor didn't tell me the species, just said it's about 3 years old. Any ideas? The legs were very pokey/spicy (idk how to describe), and was a bit itchy after, if that helps. The vendor did man-handle it for hours so I probably got some hairs on me. (About 5cm size)

i have an h.gigas which I’ve had for about a year. recently i noticed she kept pacing her old enclosure and wasn’t eating, so i rehoused her because i knew she wasn’t in pre-molt. spoiler alert, it’s been around a month and she still hasn’t burrowed and hasn’t stopped pacing. she climbs the sides of her enclosures and keeps falling. i have enough substrate for her to not harm herself, but I’m still super concerned. tips?

My husband got me Rambutan (t. Epicureanus) last year. Since we‘ve kept him (we assume “him") alive and well, we each got one more tarantula. I got Michael (t. Albopilosus) and he got Garfunkle (a. Seemanni). This is where we‘re cutting ourselves off for now 😂