^^^ You know, I'm actually curious how people deal with spiders that big... Here, a newspaper or tissue will usually do the trick, but its probably not gonna cut it for guys the size of Godzilla... And not everyone's got a spare flamethrower lying around...
The way I deal with spiders that big is generally I pick them up and put them in a container. For the record I have been bit seven times, not the most fun you can have.
I think the ones in my apartment, including silverfish and other small buggies, they hibernate in my couch. Once in a while I catch a glimpse of them roaming around, but they know the couch is where they dwell.
But the others eat other insects, and some eat birds and such. According to Wikipedia anyway.
It's a fact. This was taken in the same state I live in.
I got big nasty spiders, lizards, and the occasional python in my yard. Oh yeah, and Eastern Brown Snakes and Coastal Taipan as well (the number two and three deadliest land snakes in the world). You learn to deal with it.
The photos in this thread are creeeeeeeeepy. My cat deals with the rogue spiders for me. Thank goodness. We do seem to have a weird amount of ladybugs that can get into our house somehow though.
The way I deal with spiders that big is generally I pick them up and put them in a container. For the record I have been bit seven times, not the most fun you can have.
The better question would have been Have you ever been bit by a any new world t's. All of my bites have been from old world t's, most of your aggressive species are from the East. My spider bites are as follows.
H Lividum x 3 (Cobalt Blue) Ever seen the movie Gone In Sixty Seconds? This spider is my Eleanor. My first bite was from one I had as a pet when I first got into exotics, the other two have come from tank transfer mishaps.
Poecilotheria Regalis (Indian Ornamental) We call these guys Pokies but they are certainly not slow. One of these ran up the side of a tank, up my pant leg and when I went to get it out the bugger tagged me on my calf. Pretty spider though, they have bright yellow on their under side.
Citharischius Crawshayi (King Baboon) My favorite spider and the second largest tarantula. This species is normally aggressive and will even sound like it is hissing at you. My female however is pretty docile and I have handled her quite a few times with no incident except once where when I put my hand down in front of her to pick her up she tagged my hand. Surprisingly despite it being the largest out of this group her bite hurt the least.
Cyclosternum Pentalore (Guatemalan Tiger Rump) Another hand biter.
Poecilotheria Metallica (Gooty Ornamental) This spider is the current pride of my breeding stock. I got tagged by a female on the finger trying to get the male the hell out of Dodge after they mated as P. Metallica are not cheap! This is the spider that I am always the most in demand for because of how beautiful they are but they should only be kept by serious experienced hobbyists as they are super fast, very skitterish, and bite quite easily. This bgeauty gave my my worst reaction. My arm got hot and swollen, I could not move my fingers or close my hand for 3 days and I vomited and sweated like hell for about 12 hrs despite taking a solid dose of antihistamine
immediately after.
Unless you are allergic you will never die from a tarantula bite. As a matter of fact there really is no spider in the world that will kill a full grown healthy adult. The Brazilian Wandering Spider and Sydney Funnel Web both however can kill a small child and do some serious health damage to an adult. As for North America only the Black Widow and Brown Recluse can pose a problem and that is not by killing you but by killing the tissue around where they bite you. The bites from those spiders can cause serious damage to your muscle ans skin around the bite.
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I've had a cobalt blue, P.Metallica and the King Baboon. Thankfully I was never bit by any of those. Sounds like your baboon bite was dry otherwise it should have been bad. I had quite a collection at one point, but its down to 4 right now.
The way I deal with spiders that big is generally I pick them up and put them in a container. For the record I have been bit seven times, not the most fun you can have.
That thing looks like if it bit you it would take off half your finger.
Man the first one and the last one look pretty awesome.
Can you keep different species in one tank?
You cannot keep same species in one tank let alone different ones. Spiders are cannibals. I have head of people keeping Avicularia A. together if they have a huge tank and they are all the same size but more often then not they will try to kill eachother. When you mate tarantulas it is a pretty tough process. First off you need to introduce the male to the females tank (are any of us surprised there Next he will cautiously approach her and he does this funny little dance with his front legs to show her his intentions. This is the first part where if she is not receptive she may just attack him and kill him, she is bigger then he is and he really has zero chance. If he makes it that far he will then begin stroking her legs with his and if she is receptive she will kind of act like she is asleep. He then props her up with the small hooks on his front legs (only males have hooks) and he will plug his pedipalps where he has stored his sperm into her. After he has done that comes the moment of life or death for him. He slowly lowers her down and while she is still out of it he needs to get the hell out of there! Now different species have different reactions by the males. Some are easy, they let her down and they get the McHell out of there and you just have to scoop him up.
Others try to back away slowly which rarely works and unless I get a piece of cardboard in between them he is going to get slaughtered. Then you have the males like the Cobalt Blue( the males are much smaller and are not blue at all, they are black and boring) where they just wait to be eaten. It's the females natural instinct to attack and eat her mate after and she will do just that if you don't seperate them right away.
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I've had a cobalt blue, P.Metallic and the King Baboon. Thankfully I was never bit by any of those. Sounds like your baboon bite was dry otherwise it should have been bad. I had quite a collection at one point, but its down to 4 right now.
You had some nice spiders! What 4 do you have now? I am not sure why the King bite was not that bad, you could be right. My hand swelled quite a bit and it throbbed and itched like hell. That imo is the worst part of getting bit is not the pain, I can deal with pain, it's the unreal itching!
That thing looks like if it bit you it would take off half your finger.
It's bite was defensive and fast like most tarantulas if they bite you. the Cobalt Blue is a whole different ball game! It is evil and makes sure it buries its fangs into you. I swear to god it even tries arching forward to get it as deep as it can! Evil I tell ya!
For some reason tarantulas don't really bother me. I could probably even keep one as a pet if I wanted to. But it's these things:
That I really don't like. Has to be some kind of Australian or South American bird-eating species. I don't even know what I would do if one of these buggers had a nest in my house. I'd probably just move out.
For some reason tarantulas don't really bother me. I could probably even keep one as a pet if I wanted to. But it's these things:
That I really don't like. Has to be some kind of Australian or South American bird-eating species. I don't even know what I would do if one of these buggers had a nest in my house. I'd probably just move out.
For the record I have been bit seven times, not the most fun you can have.
Next he will cautiously approach her and he does this funny little dance with his front legs to show her his intentions. This is the first part where if she is not receptive she may just attack him and kill him, she is bigger then he is and he really has zero chance. If he makes it that far he will then begin stroking her legs with his and if she is receptive she will kind of act like she is asleep. He then props her up with the small hooks on his front legs (only males have hooks) and he will plug his pedipalps where he has stored his sperm into her. After he has done that comes the moment of life or death for him. He slowly lowers her down and while she is still out of it he needs to get the hell out of there! Now different species have different reactions by the males. Some are easy, they let her down and they get the McHell out of there and you just have to scoop him up.
What 4 do you have now? I am not sure why the King bite was not that bad, you could be right. My hand swelled quite a bit and it throbbed and itched like hell. That imo is the worst part of getting bit is not the pain, I can deal with pain, it's the unreal itching!
