Well I've gone and done it now....

I just bought my first T. Pink Zebra beauty. :lol:

I don't a digital camera, so I can't show it to you yet.

I've just housed her in a what's considered to be a larger breeders box kritter keeper. (I had this on hand, and it seemed to be fairly sutiable). She's got about an inch of substrate so far (cocanut coir..it's the expandable stuff looks like dirt when dry, holds in humdity well).

I wanted to get her out of the large straight "beanie baby" box, so she'd (she is an assumption..dunno for sure) have more room, and the box she came in needed to be cleaned anyway. Plus I really didn't want to house a T on pointed bark.

I can't really think of anything to add right now. I'm not exactly sure how big it is, but it's tiny and it's not an adult...(not much help, huh?)

Somewhere in the range of 2 or 3 inches..I think.

It's kinda funny, the OBT was cheaper than this one (too bad it's an orange ball of fury). They also had some WC rosies, and some Mexican red knees.

My T is yellow rather than pink, however. I'm wondering if they got the species wrong. To bad I can't post pics of it.

you are gonna have a zoo in a week.....Congrats.

congrats on your new tarantula

Bold move. :) Congrats!

welcome to t's, they can be addictive too. i put a small piece of cork bark in my tanks to give a little shelter/shade area and a little water bowl. wait until your first molt, they are cool to study.



vaughn

For those of you that may be wondering, an OBT is an abrv. the species it's refering to is P. murius (sp might be off) It's a Usamba? baboon spider. Very pretty orange old world T, aggro and mean.

It has enough substrate to did a nice burrow in now, a plastic cup to hide in, and a ragu water lid for water dish.

And after it walked across my hand last night after trying to gently move it off the edge of the lid, I discovered I get a mild reaction to urticulating hairs (it was putting down very small amounts of web, and I think it was leaving hairs on the webbing). Time to buy gloves.

It wasn't too bad, but it's not something I care to repeat.

im getting confused,is a pink zebra beauty T a different name for OBT?

No, a Pink Zebra Beauty is a E. campestratus.

There were several different spiders I could have bought, and I thought it was unusual that the Baboon spider was cheaper. It turns out that Baboon spiders are pretty cheap becuase nobody wants one. An OBT is not a beginner species.

they do irritate some. be a little careful when changing the substrate, sometimes you can stir up a lot of stuff in the air. t's are cool, so many choices. one that is big and easy to hold are the chaco golden knees or chaco yellow stripe. they are in the same family as rose hairs and just as nice, they get 6-8 inches.


vaughn

Cool to hear! Yeah OBTs (also aka orange bitey things p.murinus) are generally not too much pricewise then again they don't have the most accomodating personalities ;) Very good eaters though.

OBTs are the only T my girlfriend is not ok with me keeping :)

They are incredibly cheap because they are such prolific breeders and very hardy. on a spider forum one member had an entire eggsac escape after hatching from a poorly secured incubator. I would hate to put on shoes in that house.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Cool to hear! Yeah OBTs (also aka orange bitey things p.murinus) are generally not too much pricewise then again they don't have the most accomodating personalities ;) Very good eaters though.

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Yeah Wes, I'm still waiting to hear the update from that guy on the spider forum, I'm wondering if he's looking for new housing at this point.

GAD-FARKING-ZOOKS!

That's something I wouldn't want any part of . . well the escaping that is. I picked up an OBT recently - but so far he seems a pretty mellow lil fella and hasn't even graced me with threat postures. The extra from Aliens (h.longipedum) has burrowed thank god! Now I can clean - that thing is hell posessed!

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wait until your first molt, they are cool to study.

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Oh.. when my rose hair first molted, I took it out and set it on the floor while I cleaned his tank. I kept seeing the molt out of the corner of my eye, and it was making me jump it looked so real! lol

Are rose hairs considered to have urticulating hairs? I never noticed anything when I let him walk on me.

Yeah, rose hairs are a new world species, so they have the hairs.

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Yeah, rose hairs are a new world species, so they have the hairs.

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Hmm.. is it possible to not be affected by them? Or do they have to flick them at you first? He's never done that.. that I know of.

Some people have no reaction. I am one of those people who do, unforunately. My PZB (pink zebra beauty) was laying down webing with hairs to it, and I reacted it to when she walked across my hand the first time.

So I wear medical exam quality gloves whenever I do anything with one of my T's, feeding, watering, etc. I prefer not to itch. You can also react differently (better or worse) to various species, but I'm not going to risk it.

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Yeah, rose hairs are a new world species, so they have the hairs.

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Hmm.. is it possible to not be affected by them? Or do they have to flick them at you first? He's never done that.. that I know of.

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I have gotten them in my fingers from picking up some of my Brachypelma Ts just from me touching them and pressing them into my skin.

Some people are more prone to problems with them and some parts of your body may react differentlly like the softer skin on the inside of your arm.

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the softer skin on the inside of your arm.

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AMEN there, bro - that inside forearm action just lights UP whereas anywhere else it doesn't seem to be quite as bad.

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the softer skin on the inside of your arm.

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AMEN there, bro - that inside forearm action just lights UP whereas anywhere else it doesn't seem to be quite as bad.

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Hmm.. I've felt very slight itchiness from my rose hair walking on the inside of my arm, but nothing bothersome.

We just got some stripe knee T's (don't know their proper name) at the store where I work. They're kinda jumpy, but this older lady (!) wanted to handle one. I asked one of the managers and he took it out. That thing shot up his arm and ran around to his back! lol I had to get it off.. fast bugger. Cute though.

The rosehair's never been a problem for me - but the e.campestratus and b.smithi can just take a blind flick while i am reaching in to do some maintenance and it always seems the inside of the forearm is a prone area on me.

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The rosehair's never been a problem for me - but the e.campestratus and b.smithi can just take a blind flick while i am reaching in to do some maintenance and it always seems the inside of the forearm is a prone area on me.

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The only spec that I have ever been badly hairs by were both Bracypelmas, one smithi and one emelia. Been haired by an Aphonopelma and it was nothing like either of those two. everytime it was the space between my fingers and the inside of my wrist that bothered me the most and the longest.

The shape, number, and size of the hairs varies between species. Some are more aerodynamic and can go farther and some are sharper or have barbs shapped differently that allow them to penetrate deeper or make them harder to get out. Just a little background for those that are unaware of this and curious as to the nature of some of this conversation.

http://arachnophiliac.co.uk/burrow/urticating.htm

There's a link to diagrams various "hairs" and an interesting read on their function and diversity.