Providing the best in tarantula care + education
The tarantula bite I’ve written before about what a tarantula bite can feel like, which is super important for any new tarantula owner to know, but it’s also really important to know what happens if you do happen to have a tarantula bite. This is not something you want to be googling after it happens! Be prepared for a tarantula […]
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How to buy a tarantula Getting into the tarantula hobby is an exciting process – no tarantula owner ever forgets their first T! Doing the research about how to buy a tarantula and where to buy from is half the fun, as well as considering what species you should get. You should always do a ton of research before getting […]
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Today we’re going to settle as fascinating question once and for all – do spiders drink water? From the time we’re young, we’re conditioned to believe that a spiders’ relationship with water is one of avoidance and destruction. From the nursery song “Itsy Bitsy Spider” to perhaps seeing our parents flush bugs down the toilet as kids, one wouldn’t think […]
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Today I want to discuss something that is considered dangerous for tarantulas: pinky mice. As a new tarantula owner who wants to raise a strong, healthy spider and is furiously googling the best way to care for their pets, it’s easy to become misguided by the many different opinions out there. If you go to a local pet store, some […]
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While there has been some evidence that spiders have poor vision, many people are curious – can spiders hear? I myself got super curious after seeing a really interesting post about this in the Facebook group Tarantula Owners Worldwide. Someone had asked a question about whether or not tarantulas could hear music (and what genre they might like if they […]
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Today I’m going to use my own personal experience to tell you about one of the worst things you can put in tarantula enclosures. I am going to be honest, when I first got into the tarantula keeping hobby I made a LOT of embarrassing mistakes. And mistakes are SO easy to make! Tarantulas are unlike so many of our […]
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As the creator of several tarantula blogs and groups, I get asked some pretty interesting questions about tarantulas and spiders. One that came up quite recently was this: Do spider poop? Do they pee? That’s a REALLY great question – and one that many people wouldn’t know unless they’d had firsthand experience owning a tarantula or other arachnid. Unfortunately, very […]
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How To Care For A Tarantula Sling Vs. An Adult Tarantula As some of you may have already heard, I recently acquired a new addition to my home – an Arizona Blonde (Aphonopelma chalcodes) tarantula sling named Blinky! It’s funny that I have two spiders that are quite the opposite now – Spidey, my Grammostola rosea, is well into her […]
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Welcome to the first issue of The Spinnerette, a tarantula and spider magazine, featuring the Poecilotheria metallica! A big thank you to everyone who made this issue possible and I hope to only see this spider magazine grow in the future! To view, you can purchase the spider magazine below, or subscribe to my Patreon! Here is a summary of […]
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As some of you may already know, I run a few different blogs, groups, and Facebook pages about tarantulas. One of the most common questions I get asked on these platforms are about the elusive appetite of the rose hair tarantula. I’ve had my grammostola rosea, Spidey, for several years and I have come to accept that this species of […]
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