New Addition

[Hugsplox]

After many months of research, and getting the okay from the wife, I’d like to introduce the newest addition to my collection, and my very first tarantula. Prince Harry, as we’ve chosen to call him, is a curly hair tarantula or Tlitocatl Albipulosus. Still very new to this species and this side of the herp hobby but wanted to share.





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[BlueOrleans1290]

Congrats to your new critter! I hope everything goes well! You'll have to post a picture of it's first molt! Aw how cutee

[Bogertophis]

Not much experience with t's but I did keep one native t when I lived in the Calif. desert a while back. For about 6 months, then I re-homed it, as I had literally a house-FULL of snakes (more than enough to do). Love this one's "hair-do".

[BeansTheDerp]

he looks so flurfy and cute! but be careful because some tarantulas can kick their hairs at you when angry! I don't know if Prince Harry is the kind that can do that though. congrats on the new animal!

[Bogertophis]

he looks so flurfy and cute! but be careful because some tarantulas can kick their hairs at you when angry! I don't know if Prince Harry is the kind that can do that though. congrats on the new animal!

I do a fair amount of shedding myself...wow, imagine if our hair was actually a weapon!?

[nikkubus]

I do a fair amount of shedding myself...wow, imagine if our hair was actually a weapon!?

Oh mine totally is. It's gotten caught in more earrings and whacked people in the eye plenty of times

[Bogertophis]

Oh mine totally is. It's gotten caught in more earrings and whacked people in the eye plenty of times

That wasn't quite the way I pictured it- I meant the way tarantulas use theirs to repel threats. Mine is actually more of a threat to me- when my snakes tie it in knots.

[nikkubus]

That wasn't quite the way I pictured it- I meant the way tarantulas use theirs to repel threats. Mine is actually more of a threat to me- when my snakes tie it in knots.

True story!

[BeansTheDerp]

Oh mine totally is. It's gotten caught in more earrings and whacked people in the eye plenty of times

my hair gets caught in stickers and hair ties and even Beans. that's right I said Beans. he tangles himself in my hair constantly and stares at me from my shoulder until I untangle him, then he continues to DO IT AGAIN.

[Bogertophis]

my hair gets caught in stickers and hair ties and even Beans. that's right I said Beans. he tangles himself in my hair constantly and stares at me from my shoulder until I untangle him, then he continues to DO IT AGAIN.

That's what snakes do with long hair (mine too), mostly in their search for traction, so we can't exactly blame them. If you stuck me on top of a tall tower (aka a human) & I had no hands, I'd do whatever it took to avoid falling too.