All tarantulas can bite, but their 1st defence is to run away! New world species (from south America) have urticating hairs on their abdomen, they will flick these into the air as a defence also. These will only cause minor irritation. Old world species (from Africa and asia) do not have these urticating hairs, and tend to be more aggressive. Tarantulas will usually rear up and put on a threat display before biting.

Any Brachypelma species, there are many! Mexican Red knee (Brachypelma smithi), Mexican Red Rump (Brachypelma vagans), Mexican Pink (Brachypelma klassi) are just a few examples. All hardy and easy to keep.

Definately Greenbottle Blue Tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens), you get everything you want out of a tarantula. They grow at a decent pace, ravenous feeders, make elaborate webs and they are stunning from spiderling to adult!

I've been on there since November 2007! Also Arachnophiles Forum - Powered by vBulletin is a good site with wealth of knowledge in it's members. I'm no expert, I just know what I need to know.

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chiles are pretty docile mines never bitten and children of all ages have held her x

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Here's, in my opinion, some mouth watering tarantulas. None of these are mine, they're all off google images...

Monocentropus balfouri - soccotra blue baboon


Poecilotheria metallica - Gooty ornamental


Poecilotheria subfusca - Ivory ornamental


Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens - Greenbottle blue


Xenesthis immanis - Columbian purple bloom

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theyre beautiful! i especciallyy like the gooty ornamental!

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i took my chilean into my kids school for them to look at. all the children loved it and were really interested but the parents were scared lol

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She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad and that’s important you know.

Highly sought after species, well all 5 of them are! Adult female Gooty ornamentals can go for £300-£500 For the soccotra blue baboon, they are even more expensive!

They are all quite rare though and thats why traders keep the prices up!

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lol that sounds about right!

I used to do village fairs for the wildlife park I used to volunteer at. We would do talks on bugs, reptiles and tarantulas. They would ask me to bring my own tarantulas because they were better than the ones they have at the park!

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do you handle yours?? i get mine out alot but some people say they shouldnt be handled...

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She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad and that’s important you know.

i heard that to

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We can learn a lot from shelter dogs; for
example, no matter how much you have
been hurt in the past, there's someone who
wants to love you.

Opinions ain't facts, take them in and let them go.

I just copied and pasted this from the other thread that I highjacked earlier! Because it's late and I'm tired!

The handling issue has been going on for eternity it seems!

The people who think its ok to handle will argue that as long as it's done properly, there shouldn't be an issue. To handle properly, you should be kneeling down or over a bed, place your hand flat infront of the spider and gently coax it on to your hand.

The people who are against handling will argue that the spider doesn't benefit from this. There is only risk of dropping the spider or it biting if it got startled. A tarantula can die from being dropped from around 2 feet or more. the abdomen will rupture and it will bleed to death.

Thats just a basic run down of the ongoing debate. You should see the arguments on other tarantula forums I go on!

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