[ SECRET POST #3122 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3122 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[My Name is Earl]


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[Veep]


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[Welcome to Night Vale]


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[Wes Anderson]


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[Felicia Day]


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[Oscar Jarjayes/Rose of Versailles]


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[Holly Madison, Girls Next Door]


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(Game of Thrones)








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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have a rosie and she's been a pretty good girl. You CAN hold them, but temperament tends to vary with the tarantula. Some are totally fine with you holding them, others are kind of like "yuck can you not," while the more aggressive ones will probably try biting you if you mess around with them. Rosies are generally the most docile tarantula so they're easier to deal with. As mentioned above, you should probably wear gloves if you're not 100% comfortable with the spider and you're not 100% sure it's comfortable with you. At the Butterfly Pavilion here in Denver, their rosie (Rosie, coincidentally) is handled by visitors, including chidren, and no one needs to wear gloves since Rosie is the biggest sweetheart and doesn't mind being held/petted.

As a general rule, tarantulas are more likely going to defend themselves by sending itchy, irritating hairs at you, not biting (unless they're mean mofos, but those are not recommended for beginners). By biting you, they waste some of the venom they could use to catch food. And storebought (or self-raised) crickets are probably your best bet for food. You never know what kind of pesticides and junk wild bugs have, and you don't want to get your tarantula sick. I've heard that SOME tarantulas will eat mealworms, but mine absolutely hated them.

Everything everyone else has said in the thread is also good advice. Tarantulas prefer a humid environment over a dry one, and it's a good idea to mist the cage with a squirt bottle when you notice it's dry (not to the point of mold, though). And strangely my tarantula hates getting wet, so if I need to scare her away from the top of the cage while I'm cleaning, I barely spray it in front of her and she'll make a u-turn right away, haha.

Tarantulas are very low maintenance in comparison to a mammal. You don't feed them as often (mine eats about once every two weeks), and they're not as messy. Your daily ritual with a tarantula should be checking to see if it needs water in its dish, misting the cage if it's really dry, removing any waste (exoskeletons, mostly), and making sure there's no causes for concern in the cage (mites, mold, fungus, etc.).

[loracarol]

Oh hey, my friend was just telling me about Rosie! :D

Thanks! I'll keep keep all of this in mind! Right now the store is feeding their tarantula once a day, but I'm assuming it's just because they're probably a juvenile?