So, the chat kicked me off mid sentence. UGH Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who joined us tonight! The whole Moran family had a blast with this. I'll definitely do this again sometime!
09:27 - wow, stunning! 11:55 - wow, so unique! 18:02 - aww, so sad! I wonder why it passed? 22:55 - gorgeous colour! 28:55 - lovely pattern! 40:46 - super pretty! 43:28 - what a joy to look at! 43:48 - mindblowingly beautiful! 55:15 - insane! just some of my faves! your collection is so incredible!! thank you for sharing this with us! i respect how much you respect them and their privacy/needs, really cool.
This was an amazing video. So many stunning tarantulas and the shots were terrific. I am glad, though, that you don't stress and anger them with posing. I did, however, miss the narration! Thank You for the time you spent making this video
Thank you so much, Toni! It was a lot of fun to make. As for the narration, I tried it out with some and, with the clips being so short, it just wasn't working for me. I get it, though. :)
I remember you saying in the podcast that you were not sure what music to put for this video, I think your choice worked out well, this video is just peaceful and awesome.
This video is amazing! I was in the midst of a panic attack when I sat down to watch this, no joke when I say this is now my go to for calming myself. So peaceful and beautiful. Just what this overworked mom brain needed. Not to mention I now have several new genus that I must have all of them.
Hey, Jamie! Man, having had panic attacks before, I'm SO glad that this was helpful!!! And sorry for probably costing you a bunch of money down the road. I hope that you're feeling better!
Do you realise this video to some, would increase their anxiety and could quite well create a panic attack in some arachnophobe's. Lol! I'm happy it had the opposite effect with you. I found it very relaxing and calming too, but I don't suffer from panic attacks or anxiety (thank christ).
An hour and 10 mins ? I'm gonna need a bigger bucket of popcorn and more limeade. Weird thing... I never drank the stuff before watching your channel, Tom... now I crave the stuff and I don't know why....
Bahahaha Yeah, this is the longest one that I've ever attempted. And isn't that odd? I wonder what it is about my videos that make you crave Limeade? Strange.... ;) hahaha
@jake s ahhh, man... watch enough of Tom's videos and you'll get a weird hankering after the stuff... think lemonade, but made with lime... it's very refreshing, ice cold...
Bravo!! What a ton of work that must have been! That Togo starburst baboon is stunning; and so many species I’ve never seen or heard about…liked your trippy spider spa music…. and just looking at that N.Tripepii made me itchy.
Thank you for taking the time to make such an excellent compilation. That must have taken a while!! This is awesome and so relaxing to watch... Thank you!!
It's nice seeing them the way they look in an enclosure, it's a different experience from those edited and carefully lighted photographs you see. It's more realistic to what you can expect. This is a good reminder that I need to hurry up and get some Aphonopelma. I keep meaning to.
Thank you, Jennifer! I'm sure some won't understand that, but whatever. haha I'm not going to stress them out for photo shoots. Now...go get some Aphonopelma! haha
This is my new favourite bed time vid beautiful t's and chilled music 🎶 I love it thanks for another great vid tom and your collection 👌 your an extremely lucky man to be able to watch all those stunning arachnids.
I missed the premiere sadly. I really enjoyed this! Wife said the music was putting her to sleep, she wanted to hear you narrate. 😅 Keep on keepin on! 👍🤘
Hi, Cory! No worries...I was just trying out that feature for fun. Awwwww... I tried to narrate on one version, but the clips were so short that it was difficult for me to get much in there.
@@TomsBigSpiders I took a fall last Saturday, landed on my tail bone and sprained my back badly. All week he has been having to help me get in and our of bed, bring me meals etc. Today I told him to do whatever he wanted to do. But he stayed here with me. We had our fave Asian food, Crispy Duck with plum sauce and I had Crispy Cornish. Noodles with veggies, pot stickers and crab puffs. We have enough food for 2 or 3 nights. There are some good things about being old. Blessings for you and your family including the T's.
Wow Tom u have a stunning collection and most of the aphonapelma sp haven't seen in the UK,I thought I had a nice collection but yours is amazing thankyou for sharing and take the time to get all this footage.
OMGG!!!! I have never seen a more beautiful sight in my life, you have a lot of spiders I’ve never seen in the uk 🇬🇧 I have to say that I loved it!!!!! The music was incredible and I’d love to see more video’s like this, I’m your number one fan and you have helped me so much with my collection, just worked out how to have your channel on my tv! Sending HUGE HUGS!!! to you, Billie and all your family 💕
Very nice collection you have. Springed a few more ideas for my first t to purchase. Just learning everything I can before acquiring the real deal. Thank you for the time and video. Cheers...
Awesome video Tom! Great job! Theres some species in there ive never heard of, and ive been in the hobby for 20 years. That argentine brown birdeater is especially one i will look onto getting next!
Just found this, watched on my TV right next to my glass door spider "china" cabinet. It seemed very popular with the group as they either came out of their hides or hung on the enclosure walls watching
I'm so upset I was out grocery shopping and missed this. I guess I can't complain though, pulling out some rice and honey chips and watching this as though it were a movie night was time well spent. Loved every single one of them, absolutely gorgeous. Those Harpactira's, Phormictopus's, and (plus more lol) Chilobrachys though, man I'm envious! The Birupes (as well as the electric blue male since I apparently forgot how awesome they look) was super cool to see as well. Thank you so much for doing this Tom, definitely want more things like this in the future!
Awwww...sorry, Zulema! At least you got some good snacks though. :) Thank you so much for watching! I'll definitely have to do another like this in the future. : )
Came here from the podcast 🙌🏼 Loved this video, also good choice in the music, it was very relaxing. I appreciate the quality content you put out, thank you ✌
Thank you so much for checking it out! Yeah, I really ended up liking the music (and I guess that some are now using it to fall asleep at night! haha). Thanks again!!!
Hey Tom, we spoke during the life premiere but I’m hitting the comments again bc I know this is the fastest way to get ya. So I just witnessed something I’ve never seen before and I can’t remember you ever mentioning it on the podcast and I’ve gone thru them front to back…two of my slings (larger slings) both just ditched their meals, turned their back to the partially eaten prey, shook their butts, and did another 180 to resume eating. The only thing I could come up with is that possibly they didn’t feel they had a secure grasp and were using their spinnerets to anchor the prey to get better leverage. Could be way off here but let me know if you’ve seen this or what your take is on it. Thanks again!
Hey, Joshua! Did it end up eating the rest of their meals? If it's a big item and it starts to get sloppy, they will take a moment to web it up to hold it together while they eat. The thought is that this keeps it from hitting the ground and attracting other bugs like ants. Could that be what you saw?
Hey Tom thanks for the reply. They did in fact both finish their meals. And your explanation makes a lot of sense. I never considered that they may be protecting it from other scavengers. I guess even captive bred keep most if not all of their wild instincts. Very cool! Ps I’m going to have more questions so I’ll likely always attach them to this video for consistency sake. Just a heads up. Thanks again.
Precious gems of the animal world with 8 legs each and I do believe you could open a store with your inventory but I know you would not part with one, for any money unless it was to save your life or the kids or Billie. You have every color there is in T's and I love that you have communities. Yours is the most extensive collection I have ever seen.
@@TomsBigSpiders It was well done. Even Mike watched it with me. He is not averse to OTHERS keeping T's he is just not ready for me to have one. Considering last Saturday I fell hard, landed on my tail bone and sprained my back (one that already has problems). He had his hands full tending to me, let alone having to tell him he must feed the T a large bug. Ha Ha
@@JJDigitalartStudio Oh no! Are you okay? Are you feeling any better? That sounds absolute AWFUL. I hope that you are on the mend and feel better VERY soon!!!
@@TomsBigSpiders When you get a click away from 70 things do not heal quickly But it is about 60% better than last Monday. The first few days the pain got worse. Then by Wed it was getting better except in the mornings. Morning is still the worst with aches and stiffness. There was no reason to be admitted to the hospital since I can rest better at home. The worst things are what we take for granted. You drink that big glass of water and an hour later you need to get rid of it. When it is hard to walk... think about it. Aging is not for faint hearted.
A superb collection of tarantulas Tom, and everyone of them featured in superb condition, your a credit to tarantula keeping, and there's alot to be learned from watching your videos, I personally have learned an awful lot, so well done to you Tom.
Lots that I own, lots that are on my wishlist, and lots that ive never seen or heard of that are now on my wishlist! Such a gorgeous display of the diversity of tarantulas! Well done, and great video as always.
Wow just wow 🤩 well done and thank you for the effort in this one! Fantastic collection and beautiful specimens Tom. Can’t wait to see some of the youngsters grow and get their adult colours.
Thank you so much for watching! Yeah, we'll have to update it in a couple years when those little guys get bigger. I also have about 15 slings that I couldn't get shots of that I'll have to add in the update. :)
That was awesome! Lots of favorites and a few I’ve never seen in person (looking at you araño pollo and P vitatta). Thanks for taking the time to pull this all together.
Hi Tom! How are you? Wow! That video was fantastic! I can't imagine the amount of time to put all of that together. Thanks for the reply earlier about the leaf litter. Down here in the South Appalachian's I have to pick up the leaves practically one by one since we have way tons of stupid pine needles everywhere. But when Autumn arrives its better. We have oak, elm, popular, sycamore, maple, etc. Oh, btw, I have the "oh, cool, nice T, let's buy it!" disease! And I learned there is NO CURE!! Side affects are: uncontrollable urges to buy every kind of feeder insects; waking up in the middle of the night to check your T's; your storage areas are full of used and new enclosures, various substrates, bags of soda pop bottle lids, stacks of new and used deli cups of various sizes, boxes of cork bark and spider wood plus interesting tree branches you found on a walk; more boxes of rocks for decor and of plastic plants; you are awake all night watching and waiting for one of your T's to molt or worrying why your A. chalcodes hasnt eaten for months; checking various breeder sites online for sales, new species availability and prices; you cannot walk through a Wal-Mart or Target without looking at a Sterilite or Rubbermaid container and thinking, "oh, this would be perfect for...", and heaven forbid you see a Container Store!; cannot look at a wall and think where to put shelves to display your various T's; squirreling money away to buy a new species you've seen (even if you have no more room for it!) 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 I'm being verbose since I just bought two more T's. A Tliltcotl vagans and a Grammastola porteri from Tyler at the west coast Spider Shoppe in Tacoma, WA. (I had a $30 discount and just had to use it) So, yes Tom, I may have survived the Covid pandemic but not the "I need more T's disease." 😆
Hello, Linda! I certainly can't complain...how are you? :) No, there is certainly no cure; and IF you find one, please let me know. haha I've also been in the hobby for quite a while, and I'm STILL on the hunt for cool things that would make good tarantula enclosures. haha I'm always in the container section of Walmart. Thanks again!
So well done as usual Tom and Hey I added my first Old World Tarantula to my Home A Vietnam blue, a teenager and such a little cutie pie comes out at night when its all dark and quiet and enjoys his new surroundings. Thanks for helping give me the confidence to take the plunge brother God bless.
@@TomsBigSpiders Thanks Tom I'm picking up a Zebra today turns out she's a 7 year old but was surrenderd and needs a loving home so I'm taking her. I haven't met her yet but they say she's extremely calm well manored and a charmer can't wait to meet her lol 😂
Hello Tom my Daughter told me about your channel. I love it! You sure have a lot of Tarantulas! As far as I'm concerned you can never have enough. Lol. My daughter and I are fairly new to the hobby. About a couple years. We are both in live with Tarantulas! We both used to be scared of spiders but, learning about them was the best thing. I now love them and think they are badass!. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!
Hi, Melanie! Well, please thank your daughter for me. :) Yes, I currently have about 200 (with many doubles and triples of some species). And that is absolutely fantastic! I love hearing when parents are enjoying the hobby with their children. Thank you for chiming in!
Great video Tom 💥💯 Unfortunately I didn't have much time,so forwarded to the poecilotheria ... They are just so magical to watch 🥰 the colours and patterns and behaviour of the poecilotheria morph,just blows most other tarantulas out the water "in my opinion" I only have 4 poecilotheria in my collection and I'm happy 😊 Thanks Tom 👌
Thanks for going through the effort of making this video! Beautiful collection; I'm jealous you guys in the States have such a wider variety of T's then us up north.
Awesome collection Tom and thank you for sharing. I am fairly new to the hobby but slowly building up my own collection. I have 23 species so far and excited to be getting my P. Auratus very soon. All of your husbandry videos have been very helpful to me and my dad who is also a keeper. Looking forward to all your future work. -your fan from the Philippines
Thank YOU for taking the time to watch! It took me quite a while to amass this group. I'm so glad that these videos are helpful to you and your dad...that's awesome! Greetings from the US!
As much as I love all your educational content, especially the podcast (highlight of my week if I’m being honest lol). I enjoy almost as equally the fun ones like this. Beautiful collection! Thank for sharing and you have definitely cost me a lot of money. Now to get online and see where I can purchase a few of these beauties 😂
What an amazing collection you have! Great video! I was surprised that you don't have some "common" species like the Lasiodora klugi or the G grossa. I'm sorry for the D diamantinensis loss, she was a stunning looking spider. It would have been great to hear some comments during the video and to see your feeder insects and rest of your animal family! I've been always intrigued about your farty dog haha. Keep it up!
Hello, Braulio! Thank you so much, bud! I can only keep so many, so I try to mix up the common ones with the more obscure ones. I'll likely have them some day. haha And I tried a version with me talking, but some of the clips were quite short and didn't leave me a lot of time to talk. I'll definitely get my dogs in there soon! Thanks again!
The greats thing I ever seen I fell asleep watching it love it so much bad ass man for real I now have it on my favorite playlist yup I love when the Poecilotheria regalia comes in f yeah so far I watch the three times four times to help me sleep 🕷️💕💖❤️🥰💗🇺🇲🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️💗😍🤩
Hey Tom, I was listening to your latest podcasts on a long car ride, and I thought I'd share some tips I learned from being in the houseplant hobby that you might find useful. You were talking about having holes in the bottom of an enclosure to rehydrate peat. One way to limit the amount of substrate that would fall out of holes like that is to cover them with a little piece of carbon fiber window screen. Another thing that might be useful is misting down dustier substrates with water to stop particles from flying off in the air as much. I haven't tried with peat, but a little bit of spraying has been really helpful for keeping perlite dust out of my lungs. As for additives, I like fine sand a lot. I also have some imagitarium sphagnum moss from petco that I like to throw into mixes to maintain moisture if appropriate. It isn't as effective at holding moisture as the New Zealand sphagnum, but it's smaller and it comes in shades of green that I think looks much nicer I'm inclined to agree with you that Avicularias (and C. versicolor) aren't the most appropriate spiders to be your first ever tarantula. I've had a crazy hard time getting them to consistently eat live prey, and I also had a lot of trouble setting up my slings correctly in a way that wouldn't allow them to run out of the enclosure onto my arm. I gave my Avic avic to my professor as a class pet since he had a hisser colony, and unfortunately he never got it to eat and it starved :(
Hello! Thank so much for chiming it! Using screen sounds like a good idea to me. As for the peat, I DO try to moisten it a bit, but it comes so dry and dusty that it doesn't do all that much. Haha I do have to try to find some finer sand. And I'm so sorry to hear about your Avic. :(
Omg BIG TOM U REALLY OUT DID YOURSELF IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING SPECTACULAR CAPTIVATING PHOTOS AND REALLY REALLY REALLY ENJOYED THE MUSIC VERY VERY CALMING I NEED TO KNOW PLEASE WHO IS IT THE MUSIC
Another kick ass video man. What a collection! Couple of things. I am now in search of a Psalmopeous victori. Lastly; is your Poecilotheria subfusca the highland or the lowland variety?. Thanks for sharing!
Hey, bud! Great to hear from you! I'll keep a lookout for P. victori for you! As for the P. subfusca, both the highland and lowland were featured in this video. I just forgot to label them! haha
My god, that's the cutest B. emilia sling I've ever seen 😍. It already has the markings and all! Fantastic video, Tom! Did you catch the new Elden Ring trailer? 😉
phormictopus sp. Dominican purple is gorgeous. I would love to see more of these available in the hobby because that is one of the prettiest tarantulas in my opinion
So, the chat kicked me off mid sentence. UGH Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who joined us tonight! The whole Moran family had a blast with this. I'll definitely do this again sometime!
Hell yeah 🕷️🕸️💖❤️🇺🇲🌎🕷️🕸️🕷️
All those vandalized water dishes! But seriously, that was one of the best hours I have EVER spent on youtube. Brilliant work.
Yeah, some of them are not kind to the dishes...which is why many have two or three. haha Thank you!!!
09:27 - wow, stunning!
11:55 - wow, so unique!
18:02 - aww, so sad! I wonder why it passed?
22:55 - gorgeous colour!
28:55 - lovely pattern!
40:46 - super pretty!
43:28 - what a joy to look at!
43:48 - mindblowingly beautiful!
55:15 - insane!
just some of my faves! your collection is so incredible!! thank you for sharing this with us! i respect how much you respect them and their privacy/needs, really cool.
Ha! This was awesome. Thank you!
This was an amazing video. So many stunning tarantulas and the shots were terrific. I am glad, though, that you don't stress and anger them with posing. I did, however, miss the narration! Thank You for the time you spent making this video
Thank you so much, Toni! It was a lot of fun to make. As for the narration, I tried it out with some and, with the clips being so short, it just wasn't working for me. I get it, though. :)
An hour and 10 minutes of Tarantula goodness! It's like a visual podcast!
Hey, Dusty! Thanks for joining us! And it really is. haha
I remember you saying in the podcast that you were not sure what music to put for this video, I think your choice worked out well, this video is just peaceful and awesome.
Thanks so much, Jacob! I told Billie that I was really worried that people might hate this, but it seems to be a hit. I liked it myself! :)
This video is amazing! I was in the midst of a panic attack when I sat down to watch this, no joke when I say this is now my go to for calming myself. So peaceful and beautiful. Just what this overworked mom brain needed. Not to mention I now have several new genus that I must have all of them.
Hey, Jamie! Man, having had panic attacks before, I'm SO glad that this was helpful!!! And sorry for probably costing you a bunch of money down the road. I hope that you're feeling better!
Do you realise this video to some, would increase their anxiety and could quite well create a panic attack in some arachnophobe's. Lol! I'm happy it had the opposite effect with you. I found it very relaxing and calming too, but I don't suffer from panic attacks or anxiety (thank christ).
Anyone else periodically pause the video to jot down names of "must haves?" What an an awesome collection! Thank you for putting this together.
Ha! That's awesome. Thank YOU for watching!
An hour and 10 mins ? I'm gonna need a bigger bucket of popcorn and more limeade. Weird thing... I never drank the stuff before watching your channel, Tom... now I crave the stuff and I don't know why....
Bahahaha Yeah, this is the longest one that I've ever attempted. And isn't that odd? I wonder what it is about my videos that make you crave Limeade? Strange.... ;) hahaha
@jake s ahhh, man... watch enough of Tom's videos and you'll get a weird hankering after the stuff... think lemonade, but made with lime... it's very refreshing, ice cold...
Hello can't wait to see the video Tom great job
Thanks, Moon! I'm really stoked that I was able to pull it off. :)
Hoping the "black lab" of tarantulas is featured. Thanks for what you do Tom. Hope we get to meet some day.
It was definitely in there!
I'm sure you saw it by now but I saw this comment while watching so here's the time stamp!
20:30
Should be no.1.
What is the 'black lab' of tarantulas?
@@ClickClack_Bam Grammostola. pulchra
That was absolutely amazing !!
Will admit I didn’t watch it in one sitting 😳
The music was perfection
Thank You Tom 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks so much, Candy! I'm so glad that you didn't find the music annoying. Several folks complianed about it. haha
Hell ya Tom can't wait buddy
Thanks, TJ!
This is what i have been waiting for, Thank you and more power!
Thank you so much for watching, Diego!
Bravo!! What a ton of work that must have been! That Togo starburst baboon is stunning; and so many species I’ve never seen or heard about…liked your trippy spider spa music…. and just looking at that N.Tripepii made me itchy.
The fun part was spending dozens of hours putting this together in my 88 degree tarantula room. haha I want to hug that N. tripepii. haha Thanks!
I think you should expand it to 100 tarantulas, and some doggos.
Hahahahaha I DO have to do one with doggies soon!
Hay-iL yas!
Really looking forward to it! Awesome, Tom!
Thanks so much, Gord!
Hi Tom, this video could be the mother of all Tarantula videos on YT! Great T´s!
Hahahaha Thanks, Wolle! We shall see.
Thank you for taking the time to make such an excellent compilation. That must have taken a while!! This is awesome and so relaxing to watch... Thank you!!
Thank you for taking the time to watch it! :)
A tom's big spiders premier..... That's a first BUT I am looking forward to seeing it, can't wait buddy its gonna be good
Yeah, I honestly had no idea what it even was until I started playing around with those options. haha I figured what the heck!
@@TomsBigSpiders it definitely builds up some hype, may do it myself at some point
get the popcorn ready
Hahaha It's almost feature length!
Really can’t wait to see this!!!!!!! ❤️🔥
Thank you, Caron!
This is very exciting!
Thank you, Pete!
It's nice seeing them the way they look in an enclosure, it's a different experience from those edited and carefully lighted photographs you see. It's more realistic to what you can expect. This is a good reminder that I need to hurry up and get some Aphonopelma. I keep meaning to.
Thank you, Jennifer! I'm sure some won't understand that, but whatever. haha I'm not going to stress them out for photo shoots. Now...go get some Aphonopelma! haha
This is the best video I've ever found on UA-cam
Wow! Thank you so much, Stephanie!
This is my new favourite bed time vid beautiful t's and chilled music 🎶 I love it thanks for another great vid tom and your collection 👌 your an extremely lucky man to be able to watch all those stunning arachnids.
Hell yeah 🕷️🕸️🇺🇲💗🤩😍❤️💖🕷️🕷️🕷️
Thank you so much, Charlene! Yeah, this room is TOTALLY my happy place! haha I'm glad that I could share some of these guys.
Can't wait!
Thank you!
I missed the premiere sadly.
I really enjoyed this! Wife said the music was putting her to sleep, she wanted to hear you narrate. 😅
Keep on keepin on! 👍🤘
Hi, Cory! No worries...I was just trying out that feature for fun. Awwwww... I tried to narrate on one version, but the clips were so short that it was difficult for me to get much in there.
@@TomsBigSpiders oh I kinda figured! You did great man, that's alot of work!
I will have to set aside a whole day to watch that. That is my hubby's birthday. This would be a Bday present for me, him... not so much.
Hi, Joyce! Well, I hope that you two have a great day together! :)
@@TomsBigSpiders I took a fall last Saturday, landed on my tail bone and sprained my back badly. All week he has been having to help me get in and our of bed, bring me meals etc. Today I told him to do whatever he wanted to do. But he stayed here with me. We had our fave Asian food, Crispy Duck with plum sauce and I had Crispy Cornish. Noodles with veggies, pot stickers and crab puffs. We have enough food for 2 or 3 nights. There are some good things about being old. Blessings for you and your family including the T's.
Perhaps the greatest compilation of Arachnoporn ever assembled. Brilliant. Your passion has inspired my growth in this hobby.
Bahahaha I LOVE it! Thank you so much for the kind words and for taking the time to watch it!
Can't wait Tom!!
Hey, Jared...thanks, bud!
Wow Tom u have a stunning collection and most of the aphonapelma sp haven't seen in the UK,I thought I had a nice collection but yours is amazing thankyou for sharing and take the time to get all this footage.
Hey, James! Thank you so much, bud! It was a lot of fun to put together.
OMGG!!!! I have never seen a more beautiful sight in my life, you have a lot of spiders I’ve never seen in the uk 🇬🇧 I have to say that I loved it!!!!! The music was incredible and I’d love to see more video’s like this, I’m your number one fan and you have helped me so much with my collection, just worked out how to have your channel on my tv! Sending HUGE HUGS!!! to you, Billie and all your family 💕
Thank you so much, Caron!!! This video was a LONG time coming, so I'm glad that I could finally pull it off. Thanks again!
Hour and twn minutes sweet. May take me a few go's to digest it all in my crazy schedule but boy am I happy :)
No worries, Charles! I don't think my attention span is that long. hahaha Thank you!
Love to see these close up.
Cool music.
Thank you! Man, many people did NOT dig the music. haha
Absolutely breathtaking
Thank you, Elaine!
Very nice collection you have. Springed a few more ideas for my first t to purchase. Just learning everything I can before acquiring the real deal. Thank you for the time and video. Cheers...
Thank you so much! And I spent months before picking up mine. I totally get it. Thanks!
Awesome video Tom! Great job! Theres some species in there ive never heard of, and ive been in the hobby for 20 years. That argentine brown birdeater is especially one i will look onto getting next!
Hello! I'm so glad that I could showcase some of the uncommon ones!
Really like the calm music with the video.
Thank you, Cassondra!
Just found this, watched on my TV right next to my glass door spider "china" cabinet. It seemed very popular with the group as they either came out of their hides or hung on the enclosure walls watching
Hahaha That's awesome.
can't wait til my Chilobrachys fimbriatus looks like your adult one. mine's just a little one yet lol
It shouldn't be too long, Dylan!
you're right! I heard they're fast growers! mine is relatively docile for now lol I know that'll change when it grows
OMG!! you have a crazy collection!! compliments
Thank you, Daniele!
I'm so upset I was out grocery shopping and missed this. I guess I can't complain though, pulling out some rice and honey chips and watching this as though it were a movie night was time well spent.
Loved every single one of them, absolutely gorgeous. Those Harpactira's, Phormictopus's, and (plus more lol) Chilobrachys though, man I'm envious!
The Birupes (as well as the electric blue male since I apparently forgot how awesome they look) was super cool to see as well. Thank you so much for doing this Tom, definitely want more things like this in the future!
Awwww...sorry, Zulema! At least you got some good snacks though. :) Thank you so much for watching! I'll definitely have to do another like this in the future. : )
They're all so very pretty! I love their faces
Thank you!
This is gonna be epic! No pressure, Tom
Thanks, Tana!
Hell yeah.
Thanks, Travis!
Awesome
Thanks! Hopefully, it isn't boring. I figure that an hour of spider vids should be pretty entertaining, though. haha
just started the video and i LOVE the soundtrack! 🤩
amazing shots from start to finish! thank you for showing us your eight legged friends! 😊
Thank you so much for watching!
@@TomsBigSpiders i just witnessed a Theraphosa blondi mating! its impressive how large they get!
i think i will upload the video on youtube! 😅
So beautiful. Each and every spider is amazing, they are all so different and it is fabulous to see their little personalities come out as they grow.
Thank you, Alex!
Of course something this spectacular would drop during my week of absolute heck. Grateful to be able to catch up now 😎
Hello, Irie! Awwww...so sorry to hear about your crappy week. :(
Came here from the podcast 🙌🏼 Loved this video, also good choice in the music, it was very relaxing. I appreciate the quality content you put out, thank you ✌
Thank you so much for checking it out! Yeah, I really ended up liking the music (and I guess that some are now using it to fall asleep at night! haha). Thanks again!!!
Hey Tom, we spoke during the life premiere but I’m hitting the comments again bc I know this is the fastest way to get ya. So I just witnessed something I’ve never seen before and I can’t remember you ever mentioning it on the podcast and I’ve gone thru them front to back…two of my slings (larger slings) both just ditched their meals, turned their back to the partially eaten prey, shook their butts, and did another 180 to resume eating. The only thing I could come up with is that possibly they didn’t feel they had a secure grasp and were using their spinnerets to anchor the prey to get better leverage. Could be way off here but let me know if you’ve seen this or what your take is on it. Thanks again!
Hey, Joshua! Did it end up eating the rest of their meals? If it's a big item and it starts to get sloppy, they will take a moment to web it up to hold it together while they eat. The thought is that this keeps it from hitting the ground and attracting other bugs like ants. Could that be what you saw?
Hey Tom thanks for the reply. They did in fact both finish their meals. And your explanation makes a lot of sense. I never considered that they may be protecting it from other scavengers. I guess even captive bred keep most if not all of their wild instincts. Very cool! Ps I’m going to have more questions so I’ll likely always attach them to this video for consistency sake. Just a heads up. Thanks again.
Hello great video over 100 + spider Tom great job
Thanks so much for watching with me, Moon!!!
Your Sarawak Blue is stunning! Wish I could find somewhere to buy one from. Probably the best looking blue tarantula out there.
Thank you! They really are beauties!
Precious gems of the animal world with 8 legs each and I do believe you could open a store with your inventory but I know you would not part with one, for any money unless it was to save your life or the kids or Billie. You have every color there is in T's and I love that you have communities. Yours is the most extensive collection I have ever seen.
Hi, Joyce! Thank you so much! I'm SO glad that I was able to pull this off. It took quite a bit of luck to get some of these images. :)
@@TomsBigSpiders It was well done. Even Mike watched it with me. He is not averse to OTHERS keeping T's he is just not ready for me to have one. Considering last Saturday I fell hard, landed on my tail bone and sprained my back (one that already has problems). He had his hands full tending to me, let alone having to tell him he must feed the T a large bug. Ha Ha
@@JJDigitalartStudio Oh no! Are you okay? Are you feeling any better? That sounds absolute AWFUL. I hope that you are on the mend and feel better VERY soon!!!
@@TomsBigSpiders When you get a click away from 70 things do not heal quickly But it is about 60% better than last Monday. The first few days the pain got worse. Then by Wed it was getting better except in the mornings. Morning is still the worst with aches and stiffness. There was no reason to be admitted to the hospital since I can rest better at home. The worst things are what we take for granted. You drink that big glass of water and an hour later you need to get rid of it. When it is hard to walk... think about it. Aging is not for faint hearted.
@@JJDigitalartStudio Ugh...that sounds terrible. Well, I hope that you are 100% very soon...and be careful, will ya? ;)
A superb collection of tarantulas Tom, and everyone of them featured in superb condition, your a credit to tarantula keeping, and there's alot to be learned from watching your videos, I personally have learned an awful lot, so well done to you Tom.
Wow, thank you so much, George!
@@TomsBigSpiders Your very welcome Tom.
Lots that I own, lots that are on my wishlist, and lots that ive never seen or heard of that are now on my wishlist! Such a gorgeous display of the diversity of tarantulas! Well done, and great video as always.
Thank you so much, Ivy! I'm so glad that you enjoyed it!
Awesome! Thanks for putting this together.
Thank YOU for watching!
Very peaceful to watch. Thank you for putting this together.
Thank you so much for watching, Liz!
You really have some gorgeous animals Tom.
Thank you so much, Bobbie!
Ooooohhh I’m far too excited for this!!! Eeehhh 😁😁😁
Hi, Sian! Hahaha I hope that it doesn't disappoint!
@@TomsBigSpiders You never could! 😊
Amazing vid!! I’ve seen many cool species I haven’t seen before & the music is so chill I love it
Thank you very much, Krishen!
Reminder set
Thanks, Sam!
Tom, don't get it wrong. We come for the "blab".
That said, you've achieved something unique here.
Hey, Kyle! Thanks so much, bud!
Wow just wow 🤩 well done and thank you for the effort in this one! Fantastic collection and beautiful specimens Tom. Can’t wait to see some of the youngsters grow and get their adult colours.
Thank you so much for watching! Yeah, we'll have to update it in a couple years when those little guys get bigger. I also have about 15 slings that I couldn't get shots of that I'll have to add in the update. :)
@@TomsBigSpiders aw I love a sling update so I’m looking forward to that in the future 😁
Your videos are awesome. Always great quality and very informative. Thanks for taking the time and care to ensure the viewers get top notch videos!!!!
Thank you so much for the kind words...and for watching!
That was awesome! Lots of favorites and a few I’ve never seen in person (looking at you araño pollo and P vitatta). Thanks for taking the time to pull this all together.
Thank you so much, J! I wish I could have gotten some shots of the arano after it molted...it's jet black now.
Reminder set!!!!
Thank you!
Astonishingly beautiful interesting spiders. Thank you.
Thank you, Michaelnancy!
What a collection, Tom ! Lots of beautiful spiders, plenty of them being Hobby Classics.
Stay safe and thanks for sharing :)
Thanks so much, Luc! I'm glad that I was finally able to pull this off.
Hi Tom! How are you? Wow! That video was fantastic! I can't imagine the amount of time to put all of that together. Thanks for the reply earlier about the leaf litter. Down here in the South Appalachian's I have to pick up the leaves practically one by one since we have way tons of stupid pine needles everywhere. But when Autumn arrives its better. We have oak, elm, popular, sycamore, maple, etc.
Oh, btw, I have the "oh, cool, nice T, let's buy it!" disease! And I learned there is NO CURE!!
Side affects are: uncontrollable urges to buy every kind of feeder insects; waking up in the middle of the night to check your T's; your storage areas are full of used and new enclosures, various substrates, bags of soda pop bottle lids, stacks of new and used deli cups of various sizes, boxes of cork bark and spider wood plus interesting tree branches you found on a walk; more boxes of rocks for decor and of plastic plants; you are awake all night watching and waiting for one of your T's to molt or worrying why your A. chalcodes hasnt eaten for months; checking various breeder sites online for sales, new species availability and prices; you cannot walk through a Wal-Mart or Target without looking at a Sterilite or Rubbermaid container and thinking, "oh, this would be perfect for...", and heaven forbid you see a Container Store!; cannot look at a wall and think where to put shelves to display your various T's; squirreling money away to buy a new species you've seen (even if you have no more room for it!) 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂
I'm being verbose since I just bought two more T's. A Tliltcotl vagans and a Grammastola porteri from Tyler at the west coast Spider Shoppe in Tacoma, WA. (I had a $30 discount and just had to use it) So, yes Tom, I may have survived the Covid pandemic but not the "I need more T's disease." 😆
Hello, Linda! I certainly can't complain...how are you? :) No, there is certainly no cure; and IF you find one, please let me know. haha I've also been in the hobby for quite a while, and I'm STILL on the hunt for cool things that would make good tarantula enclosures. haha I'm always in the container section of Walmart. Thanks again!
So well done as usual Tom and Hey I added my first Old World Tarantula to my Home A Vietnam blue, a teenager and such a little cutie pie comes out at night when its all dark and quiet and enjoys his new surroundings. Thanks for helping give me the confidence to take the plunge brother God bless.
Congrats on adding your first Old World...that's awesome! Thank YOU for taking the time to comment!
@@TomsBigSpiders Thanks Tom I'm picking up a Zebra today turns out she's a 7 year old but was surrenderd and needs a loving home so I'm taking her. I haven't met her yet but they say she's extremely calm well manored and a charmer can't wait to meet her lol 😂
Really enjoyed this video Tom!
Thank you, Patty!
@@TomsBigSpiders You're welcome.
Hello Tom my Daughter told me about your channel. I love it! You sure have a lot of Tarantulas! As far as I'm concerned you can never have enough. Lol. My daughter and I are fairly new to the hobby. About a couple years. We are both in live with Tarantulas! We both used to be scared of spiders but, learning about them was the best thing. I now love them and think they are badass!. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!
Hi, Melanie! Well, please thank your daughter for me. :) Yes, I currently have about 200 (with many doubles and triples of some species). And that is absolutely fantastic! I love hearing when parents are enjoying the hobby with their children. Thank you for chiming in!
Were you trying to put us to sleep with that background music? 😴💤 ASMR for the win! 🤣
Pretty much, yes. ;) Goodnight and sweet spider dreams!
Awesome collection
I miss the Stromatopelma :) would love a video on those
Cheers
I still have to get one, Miguel! I definitely have to get on that!
I can't wait!!
Thank you! Honestly, neither can I. I usually post these up as soon as I'm finished with them. haha
Great video Tom 💥💯
Unfortunately I didn't have much time,so forwarded to the poecilotheria ...
They are just so magical to watch 🥰 the colours and patterns and behaviour of the poecilotheria morph,just blows most other tarantulas out the water "in my opinion"
I only have 4 poecilotheria in my collection and I'm happy 😊
Thanks Tom 👌
Thanks, James! Yup, I can't get enough of the pokies!
Thanks for going through the effort of making this video! Beautiful collection; I'm jealous you guys in the States have such a wider variety of T's then us up north.
Thank YOU for taking the time to watch it, Paul!
Love how you did this video!!
Thank you so much, Chrissy!
Awesome collection Tom and thank you for sharing. I am fairly new to the hobby but slowly building up my own collection. I have 23 species so far and excited to be getting my P. Auratus very soon. All of your husbandry videos have been very helpful to me and my dad who is also a keeper. Looking forward to all your future work. -your fan from the Philippines
Thank YOU for taking the time to watch! It took me quite a while to amass this group. I'm so glad that these videos are helpful to you and your dad...that's awesome! Greetings from the US!
Great video Tom, thank you
Thank you, Troy!
Love this 🤗 found it very therapeutic :D
My list is a bit bigger now lol
Hahaha I'm so glad! Well, not about the list getting longer. haha
As much as I love all your educational content, especially the podcast (highlight of my week if I’m being honest lol). I enjoy almost as equally the fun ones like this. Beautiful collection! Thank for sharing and you have definitely cost me a lot of money. Now to get online and see where I can purchase a few of these beauties 😂
Well, thank you so much, BJ! Hahaha Sorry for probably costing you a lot of money. ;)
What an amazing collection you have! Great video! I was surprised that you don't have some "common" species like the Lasiodora klugi or the G grossa. I'm sorry for the D diamantinensis loss, she was a stunning looking spider. It would have been great to hear some comments during the video and to see your feeder insects and rest of your animal family! I've been always intrigued about your farty dog haha. Keep it up!
Hello, Braulio! Thank you so much, bud! I can only keep so many, so I try to mix up the common ones with the more obscure ones. I'll likely have them some day. haha And I tried a version with me talking, but some of the clips were quite short and didn't leave me a lot of time to talk. I'll definitely get my dogs in there soon! Thanks again!
Beautifull, hard to collect all that footage 👌👏👏✔️💞💗💖😍🔥🤤
Thank you so much! Yeah, it took a LOT of time...and luck!
The greats thing I ever seen I fell asleep watching it love it so much bad ass man for real I now have it on my favorite playlist yup I love when the Poecilotheria regalia comes in f yeah so far I watch the three times four times to help me sleep 🕷️💕💖❤️🥰💗🇺🇲🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️💗😍🤩
Awwww...thank you so much, Marie! And that's awesome! Yeah, I was unsure about the music, but I ended up really liking it. :)
Hey Tom, I was listening to your latest podcasts on a long car ride, and I thought I'd share some tips I learned from being in the houseplant hobby that you might find useful. You were talking about having holes in the bottom of an enclosure to rehydrate peat. One way to limit the amount of substrate that would fall out of holes like that is to cover them with a little piece of carbon fiber window screen. Another thing that might be useful is misting down dustier substrates with water to stop particles from flying off in the air as much. I haven't tried with peat, but a little bit of spraying has been really helpful for keeping perlite dust out of my lungs. As for additives, I like fine sand a lot. I also have some imagitarium sphagnum moss from petco that I like to throw into mixes to maintain moisture if appropriate. It isn't as effective at holding moisture as the New Zealand sphagnum, but it's smaller and it comes in shades of green that I think looks much nicer
I'm inclined to agree with you that Avicularias (and C. versicolor) aren't the most appropriate spiders to be your first ever tarantula. I've had a crazy hard time getting them to consistently eat live prey, and I also had a lot of trouble setting up my slings correctly in a way that wouldn't allow them to run out of the enclosure onto my arm. I gave my Avic avic to my professor as a class pet since he had a hisser colony, and unfortunately he never got it to eat and it starved :(
Hello! Thank so much for chiming it! Using screen sounds like a good idea to me. As for the peat, I DO try to moisten it a bit, but it comes so dry and dusty that it doesn't do all that much. Haha I do have to try to find some finer sand. And I'm so sorry to hear about your Avic. :(
Ooooo this gonna be exciting 🤩
Thanks, Krishen!
Omg BIG TOM U REALLY
OUT DID YOURSELF IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING SPECTACULAR CAPTIVATING PHOTOS AND REALLY REALLY REALLY ENJOYED THE MUSIC VERY VERY CALMING I NEED TO KNOW PLEASE WHO IS IT THE MUSIC
Hey, Tim...thank you so much, bud! I have the artist and music in the description. It is all ambient music by Jesse Gallagher.
@@TomsBigSpiders thanks BIG TOM
Should have it titled "The real reason we bought a new house"
Hahaha It's so true!
This will be fun
Man, I hope so. It's a long one. haha
Another kick ass video man. What a collection! Couple of things. I am now in search of a Psalmopeous victori. Lastly; is your Poecilotheria subfusca the highland or the lowland variety?. Thanks for sharing!
Hey, bud! Great to hear from you! I'll keep a lookout for P. victori for you! As for the P. subfusca, both the highland and lowland were featured in this video. I just forgot to label them! haha
Very nice video and music
Hey, bud...thanks so much!
Love them all too. Wish I had that variety!
Hi, Derek! Give it time. :) It took me YEARS to get all of these.
Nice, a feature-lenght Movie!
Yeah, this one came out quite long!
My god, that's the cutest B. emilia sling I've ever seen 😍. It already has the markings and all!
Fantastic video, Tom! Did you catch the new Elden Ring trailer? 😉
Wasn't she just adorable? And I sure did! Man, I can't WAIT!
phormictopus sp. Dominican purple is gorgeous. I would love to see more of these available in the hobby because that is one of the prettiest tarantulas in my opinion
My two females both just molted, and they look amazing. I've been seeing slings offered more often, but they are super expensive now.
I'll see you on 6/11 !
See you then, Dan!
Tom, I really liked your OBT! What a stunning beauty and you really got some good footage of it. Is it a female?
She's one of my all time favorites. Yes, that's a girl. :)