"Handleable" Tarantulas?

[Shadowspider]

Well, you just c'mon over and Shela will explain all there is to know about her to you.
Heck, she'll even sit in your lap while she does it. Just don't take her mouse away...then she'll show you what one inch fangs can do to a hand and the bones therein :eek:

[recycling goddess]

no thanks

[Shadowspider]

no thanks

Aww, c'mon! She's a sweetheart! She'll climb right up on top of her bark, over the side of the tank and right into the hands, sit there and be happy as can be.
She's actually a very good girl....that U hair of hers though....that's a bit of a different story.
Or....you could come over and we can let Zoe (AF P. irminia) out and chase her thorugh the house....no, better yet, you can help me rehouse Reggie, my 5" P. ornata...yeeeaaahhhhh :eek:

[recycling goddess]

did i say i liked you? cause i think i had you confused with someone else

[Shadowspider]

did i say i liked you? cause i think i had you confused with someone else

Hmmm, umm, no, you never have...that I recall.
You've made comments as to "odd" "goofy" "strange" and the like, but "like".....nope.

[recycling goddess]

oh that's good cause i wouldn't want to mislead you

[Shadowspider]

oh that's good cause i wouldn't want to mislead you

LOL
As long as you keep it honest (no saying things about or to me that aren't true like...."you're such a well manaered, soft spoken, decent person"....or...."she loves everyone") and keep it PG (on the public boards) it's all good!

[recycling goddess]

i'd never say such things about you! denise... i may say things like that about others... but never you

now, quirky, honest, REAL, knowledgable and addicted (to critters) - those are words i'd use to describe you

[bodar]

yeah shadow, it think i wrote post molt cause i just read your reply. pre-molt is what i meant. ummmmmmmmmmmm the ornata is a female. in that pic its a sling has since molted twice. dam do they grow fast, i bought her at about .5" and now she's about 4" 5". in a year, and i do not power feed. have few questions for you, you feed mice to you blondi? has it ever affected its molts? i feed mice and no it has never affected anyting. what humidity and temp do you keep you T's at? are they in one room or spread out. the reason i ask is i recently put all mine in one room with my snakes and centi's and scorps. i then bought a humidifier and a oil filled heater. now my room is a constant 75degrees and about 60 - 70 humidity. since doing this i have noticed a startling change in behaviour. everthing in the room is way way more lively now and every T i have has turned to a prolific webber!!!!!! i know that they are really loving it, so i must ask if you have the same sort of temp and humidity. or how you are controlling your conditions. i apologize for my reply also i swear i could see pattern on the legs in you pic . oh well, live and learn i suppose.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shadowspider]

yeah shadow, it think i wrote post molt cause i just read your reply. pre-molt is what i meant. ummmmmmmmmmmm the ornata is a female. in that pic its a sling has since molted twice. dam do they grow fast, i bought her at about .5" and now she's about 4" 5". in a year, and i do not power feed. have few questions for you, you feed mice to you blondi? has it ever affected its molts? i feed mice and no it has never affected anyting. what humidity and temp do you keep you T's at? are they in one room or spread out. the reason i ask is i recently put all mine in one room with my snakes and centi's and scorps. i then bought a humidifier and a oil filled heater. now my room is a constant 75degrees and about 60 - 70 humidity. since doing this i have noticed a startling change in behaviour. everthing in the room is way way more lively now and every T i have has turned to a prolific webber!!!!!! i know that they are really loving it, so i must ask if you have the same sort of temp and humidity. or how you are controlling your conditions. i apologize for my reply also i swear i could see pattern on the legs in you pic . oh well, live and learn i suppose.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!

I feed my large (6+ inch) tarantulas pinks every once in a while but roaches are their main diet. I've never had any problems with my blondi or any of my others molting as a result of eating the occasional vertebrate prey, but I would not feed it as the only food source. As far as humidity, I don't keep all of my inverts at the same humidity levels. I have over 100 tarantulas and scorpions of various species and they require different environmental conditions. I have my inverts in 3 different rooms in my home:
The living room, my bedroom and the bathroom. My shelving unit in the living room is for my desert species in which I keep the humidity at pretty much nil, the shelving unit in my bdr. is for my tropical species and I mist them on a regular basis and the bathroom is for my gravid females. I do not keep my temperatures and RH at a constant as it does not allow for the natural instinctual changes that inverts go through during the course of the seasons. I like to mimic their natural environmental conditions and seasonal changes as it is more natural for them and helps greatly with breeding.

Shela (my blondi) *does* have leg striping, all blondi do. The reason it shows so much in my pic is because of the pic its self. The camera that was used was a piece of junk, the lighting biffed and, well, it just made the pic come out funny.
Yes, P. ornata (as with most Poecs.) do tend to grow quite rapidly. I got my girl around .75" about a year and a half ago (maybe 2, I don't remember) and she's 5+ inches now...and mean as all get out!

No probs man, it's all good!

i'd never say such things about you! denise... i may say things like that about others... but never you now, quirky, honest, REAL, knowledgable and addicted (to critters) - those are words i'd use to describe you

You know me so well!