Mario Wrote:The reason I was asking is that I have read a lot of posts by members discouraging others to obtain certain species.
Care sheets also list some species as "for advanced keepers only"
It would seem to me that if you are a responsible person who did research on a certain specie and not some irresponsible cowboy in the hobby to impress others and are willing to care for your T to the best of your ability
you would be ready.
Or am I wrong?
That is the thing, I don't think keeping tarantulas is like keeping venomous snakes where you need to have some experience and one or two handling courses behind your name.
If you build and house your spiders in the correct setups you will never have have "contact" with them.
The only time you can and might have contact with your spiders is when you, decide to go looking for them in their hide or rehousing them.
That is the thing; I don't think keeping tarantulas is like keeping venomous snakes where you need to have some experience and one or two handling courses behind your name.
If you build and house your spiders in the correct setups you will never have "contact" with them.
The only time you can and might have contact with your spiders is when you, decide to go looking for them in their hide or re-housing them.
The fact, nothing wrong with you getting the spider and if you feel you can't handle it, you sell it, trade it or give it away.
The hobby has moved on, upgraded, become more advanced now a days, there is a good couple of people who only buy "advanced" spiders, it is not like it use to be where people would start off with a "beginner" species as they are learning, people with no experience goes and buys Avics cause that what he likes, money to be made whatever made he's mind up, you just have to adapted and learn, also the Avics death are lot less as they are getting breed in SA and don't have this stress of being shipped. Also the way people are housing them is what is helping.
But, I will say, the titles given to a spider is there for a reason, beginner, advanced, pro, fast aggressive, defensive, skittish that is there to make you aware of what you dealing with, it is not just that the spider is fast, has potent venom, it means other things like humidity the correct husbandry.
You as a person’s knows how far you are willing to go, another thing you could do, is ask someone to let you help them re-house a spider that you are interested in, that way you can gain experience and find out the about the spider you are interested in.
