venturing into Ts

I recently started getting into tarantulas also and arachnoboards has been the ultimate learning tool. You can look up "bite reports" which are people actually telling the stories of the symptoms and affects of whatever species they where handling when they got bit. It gives you a good indication of what spiders to stay away from when your a newb. Because lack of knowledge and experience pertaining to an aggressive species is eventually going to end in a bite which isn't the end of the world but you might want to know what your in for since your getting some of the quicker moving arboreal species. I was reading some of the reports and was absolutely jaw dropped at the brief agony and illness that comes with some of these bites. Might be worth looking into. :)

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Originally Posted by 3skulls

Have you read the bite reports on them yet?

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/show...theria-regalis

Not to sound like a jerk but... If you are asking questions about feeding, I don't think you are ready for any Poecilotheria.

It's your call. Good luck and be safe.

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actually i have read the bite report before I got the regalis. I check to make sure that there is no rotting flesh and/or death. It doesn't look like fun but it doesn't seems to have any long lasting effects like missing chunk of flesh, paralyzation or entire limbs etc. I'm willing to take the risk:oops:. But I'm not interested in handling any of my tarantula, not now not ever. My b.vagans on the other hand has been very aggressive, he messed up his enclosure flip his hide upside down and bury his water dish and when i go into his enclosure to try and clean it up a little he immediately attack my forceps and try to climb up on it :O. any advice on how to get it to stop making a mess of it enclosure than get mad because it has no place to hide anymore?

oh and look in the bigger regalis' enclosure this morning and found this :)
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Sweet. Congrats on the molt.

They will keep rearranging until they are happy with it. I have a few that love moving or dumping their bowls over.

so one of my p.regalis sling, the smaller one, is having trouble climbing the glass. I can see it frantically trying to glass the glass container its in but its not grabbing on to the glass. should i be concern?

Is that the one who molted?

I have read that when they get close to a molt, they can have trouble climbing.

no its not this one havn't molt in my possession yet. interestingly sometimes i see he/she has surprise stick on to the glass and is just chilling there, sometimes i would catch it frantically trying to hold on to the glass. Is there any other sign to molting besides having trouble climbing?

It will go off feed and the abdomen will darken.
I haven't worked with any pokies but I'm guessing it holds true with them as well.

Maybe the substrate is too dry and dusty? What are you using? Is it damp?

The only other thing I can thing of is it being dehydrated.
Do you have a bottle cap with water in there?

my substrate is damp and he/she has made a thin layer of webbing on the substrate already. It in a glass vial way too small to put any kind of water bowl in it, i though it should be ok absorbing moisture from it substrate and food when its so small? And i feed it few days ago and it took the cricket, don't see any shrinkage on its abdomen. As i say this i see it chilling on the glass but as i pick it up it panic and slip off and now can't grab a hold again, i wonder if the glass is too smooth on some part of the vial?

Hmm. I'm not sure. Maybe there is something on the glass..?
I'll flip through my Tarantula Keepers Guide (highly recommend this book,
Tons of info and you can find it for cheap) and see if I can find anything.

I would still guess its time for a molt. If I find anything, ill let you know.

weird the little regalia has put up webbing along the side of the glass vial but it still does the panic grab at the glass when i go check it out however I can clearly see it being able to chill on the glass sometimes and the fact that he/she put up webbing along the side means that its able to climb up. its just when it gets scare that it lose its grip.

check in on my little suntiger today, he/she looks angry :P
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