Podcast - The Most Bizarre Things I've Heard from Tarantula Hobbyists
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One of the biggest takes I've seen from this is that anthropomorphism kills many animals.
Hey, Walt! It surely does.
@@TomsBigSpiders with the honest knowledge you are able to share with us, who need to learn proper tarantula care, I don't think you owe anyone an apology . You are the expert. Patricia Hurst with a Brazillian Blue
The craziest tarantula story I've heard from a keeper was several years ago. I was chatting with an acquaintance, and at some point I mentioned that I had pet tarantulas. The acquaintance had apparently killed her pet tarantula when she saw it molting and intervened because she thought that "another tarantula" had gotten into the enclosure and was eating her pet. 🤯
OH MY GOD...you've got to be kidding me! That's terrible!
Fair play to you Tom, I don't think i could be quite so polite with a lot of these people!
Hi, Helen...I have years of practice. haha
Thanks for sharing. Honestly, it’s so sad when you see incapable caretakers with pets of any kind, knowing their level of care being received is subpar. I volunteer at a vet clinic and there are two tarantula stories I have. One is from a couple that tried to put a love tarantula up her(the lady) behind hole for some kinky foreplay idea after some drinking. The second was a lady that had read about what temperature her specific tarantula needed in order to thrive. She didn’t know how to get the tarantula’s temperature to know if she had the set up for her accurate or not accurate. She used one of those like meat thermometers and inserted it inside the Tarantula’s butt end of the abdomen by the spinnerets, to get a temperature. In both instances, the Tarantula died. When I heard them speaking I was a mix of sad, angry, and disbelieving how stupid their decisions had actually been. That’s it though. They only two Tarantula weird stories I have. We did have a few Ts come in for normal things like lethargic and not eating.. but it was/is very uncommon! Mostly we just see cats and dogs.
Wow, Amanda...those are two of the most horrific stories I have ever heard! Wow. Human stupidity will never fail to amaze me.
Wow just when you thought you’d heard the most ignorant of the ignorance….
If someone wants a small animal to snuggle with i highly recommend rats. They're such sweet snuggle bugs if you put the time into them
We had a pet rat for years. She was absolutely adorable and quite affectionate.
You're correct. My son had one when he was young. It was an eye opener. And they're very smart. It's just a shame they have such a short life span.
@@rkhnd51 i agree, sometimes the sneaky little tinks were too clever lol
I might have to rescue a couple at the next reptile expo I go to. Mine last one just passed away a few months ago. He would sleep on my shoulder, or just hang out there while I walked around doing whatever. The only thing that really sucks about keeping rats, is their short life span. 3-5 years doesn’t seem fair for such a great little pet!!!
Some of these stories remind me of that person on Instagram who has a juvi OBT that they handle on a regular basis, and claim that regular socialization will make even old world spiders "tame-able", and even when they got bit, and posted the bite happening on IG, they claimed the reason the bite happened was because they had gone too long between handling sessions. Absolutely insane.
Wait...they even got bit and STILL held onto this theory? Seriously, people really scare me sometimes. Some are just smart enough to be totally idiots. haha
I can see a T getting used to handling, but I can’t see them ever enjoying handling.
Hearing someone say you care more about money than education is the most ridiculously hilarious thing that I've ever heard.
Anyway loved the podcast a few weeks ago of this, even though it also really irritated me at times. Hope they came to their senses before a poor tarantula had to die.
Hey, Zulema! Yeah, that one really set me off. Like, really? hahaha Thank you so much! We can only hope.
@@TomsBigSpiders I can see why, it set me off and I had to whine to my girlfriend about it. You're the least sensationalized on here and when it comes to education you're the best, with tarantula Haven or BirdspidersCh being the runner up. Appreciate the hell out of you guys.
I sold some baby OBT’s I had bred at home at my family’s local pet store. A young lady came in and bought one, and informed me she was going to “train” it from a young age to tolerate being handled and make it “tame”.
I informed her how ridiculous and dangerous that is considering the species, informed her there wasn’t a way or making it tame. She took my advice and told me, in my 10+ years experience, I didn’t know what I was talking about, and she had “tamed” all her tarantulas to enjoy being handled. Can’t fix stupid sometimes.
UGH! They just want so badly for them to be cuddly animals...and they are NOT. Nope, you definitely can't fix it. ugh
a tarantula is not a reptile or a bird. they dont have the brain power to get used to handling. unlike jumping spiders
I love the podcasts. It’s really strange but I find Tom’s voice so relaxing and when my insomnia is really bad I either go back to some of the old videos or the first or second series and let them run till they sooth me to sleep.
I’d have been furious about the money comment. They obviously don’t know you. Also, you are anything but boring, I find you have one of the most dynamic channels and certainly have tons of ethics and integrity.
My voice puts Billie to sleep, too, Bobbi... haha Seriously, I really appreciate that. I can't stand listening to myself, so comments like these make me feel better about it.
And that comment REALLY bothered me because it was so ridiculous. Thanks for agreeing. :)
I put in my ears buds and play some of his older stuff at work for hours. I really makes time fly when I hear Tom's voice. This wonderful man has brought so much to my job. People think I am listening to music when in fact I am learning about the wonders of the tarantula hobby.
I do the same to get to sleep. I always play the ones I've already seen a few times though so I won't be staying awake to learn. Lol. Only drawback is that occasionally I'll wake up when the video ends and it goes silent.
So do I I love his podcasts
21:27 On people food: A couple of years ago, I put a baby carrot in the enclosure of my _Brachypelma emilia_ to lure out a dubia roach that was hiding. After my tarantula finished with the roach, I looked in the enclosure and noticed that she had the carrot in her mouth. I was sure she'd drop the carrot once she figured out it was not a bug, but she had it in her mouth for over two hours, and when she was done, the carrot was at least 50% smaller.
She has a full water dish and had already eaten at least one roach, so I am not sure what about the carrot made her want to eat it. It may have smelled like roaches, because I removed it from the roaches' feeding dish. If she touched the carrot and caused it to roll, that may have triggered an initial prey response.
Lol, I can imagine my A geniculata doing that.
She attacks anything, she has the best appetite & food response ever xx
Oh man...what a fascinating story! It almost makes you wonder at what point she thought, "Heeeyyyy...wait a minute here!" haha
@@TomsBigSpiders LOL, like, "whoah, smells like roach, tastes like a sweet rock!"
Yeah, Ts have been known to sometimes eat a little fruit and veggies. It’s free nutrients and they still need insects, but I like to give them a little fruit every 2 or 3 months as a treat, like just a small slice of banana or apple (make sure it is washed and peeled and organic)
the worst thing I ever heard like this was in youtube comments a year or so ago there was a person who wanted to cross breed different species and even cross old and new worlds from completely different genera and subfams and they just wouldnt listen to the ppl telling them it was impossible and the spiders would eat each other :(
on the other hand I use to make little origami crowns that said Clever Spider on them for spiders who moulted and also little dunce caps that said Naughty Spider for spiders who wouldnt eat but I never put them on the actual spiders ofc they just went on topve the enclosure
Hey, Super Loops! Oh, man...I've definitely received some of those over the years. Those type of comments REALLY get me upset, as you know that it ends in a dead spider. Awwwww...that actually sounds adorable! haha There is NOTHING wrong with that! :)
Definitely going to steal this idea and put a very tiny little Naughty Spider hat on top of the enclosure for this one itty bitty sling I have. It's the only one who almost always refuses food and just sits there all grumpy for weeks on end. 😂
T. albop to B. hamoriii in neighbouring tank (as small hat and sunglasses are placed on hamorii): "It's simpler if you just go with it. It'll be over soon once she's taken the pictures. Anyway, could be worse, at least she's not adding salt to our substrate...."
Bahahaha The salt one will always kill me...and probably a few spiders, too. ;)
Literally just had a nightmare my A. avicularia was swarmed up by crickets 😆
I'm only a few months into this, but it seems easy to understand that these animals are very different than mammals or birds. It's kind of disrespectful to the spider to apply human characteristics to a creature that does not have them, nor wants them.
No joke, I just had a cricket attack a juvenile. First time that's happened with a cricket since I've been keeping. Can you imagine leaving a couple dozen in with one? UGh. And that's the problem, Kenneth...you hit the nail on the head. When you try to treat them like our furry pets, it puts them in danger.
@@TomsBigSpiders It almost seems blasphemous for a lowly cricket to try and hurt a tarantula.
Tarantulas are fun BECAUSE they're not anything like mammals...even though mine are pretty furry looking. You get to experience life that is NOTHING like you or your dog and cat in a box you can look inside whenever you want
9:42 On unconventional substrates: two weeks ago, we had a new keeper (a troll?) on Arachnoboards who had decided to use "substrate with cannabis mixed in" and accused experienced keepers of being "close minded" and "negative" when they questioned how this would be beneficial to the tarantula.
Oh my God...that is the absolute worst. "I've come up with this ridiculous idea, and YOU are all the problem for not supporting it." People will people. haha
You have more patience than I do with people who become obnoxious, which is probably why you are a teacher and I am a truck driver lol.
It's years of being a teacher, Bill. Poor Billie gets to hear me vent about this stuff all of the time. haha
I cannot fathom people saying your not educational and that you're boring. You're probably my favorite youtuber. I honestly don't like people who are over the top. Just tell me what I want to know. Keep up with the great videos!
Hi, Amy! Yeah, that comment bothered me only because it was SO off base. That's all I do. Haha Thanks!
This video is so hilarious! Sleeping with a T...wow. I don't know if your meant this to be funny but I was surprised you didn't start laughing while telling these stories. Cheers!
Hi, Micheal! Yeah, some of these you kind of have to laugh at, they are so bad. haha Thanks!
Imagine this , hey, Juan, I brought you a jummy hot dog, now go take a nap with Jessica. Hey, Juan, what outfit you wanna wear today? Hahaha.
BAHAHAHAHAHA!
Damn^^ Never thought I could laugh that hard on a podcast about T's. The little Santa hat story and the hotdog guy killed me.
Hahaha I'm glad that you enjoyed it!
Hi Tom, newbie here! I have commented before recently & got a reply, thanks for that!😉 I just wanted to say I feel you, I'm new to spiders but I've been rescuing, trapping and neutering cats for a very long time, 120+ cats worth. (I've lost count) I run into the same thing. People who don't know better telling me that what I do is wrong and why, or people telling me their unrealistic ideals on curbing the stray cat population, such as ensuring NOBODY in any neighborhood ever pities them enough to feed them or making sure each and every neighbor keeps their garbage tighter than Fort Knox. Yes both of those have been suggested more than once! Let's just starve them out and hope for the worst!?
Craziness. But it definitely can be extremely frustrating tryingto reason with some people!!!
You're most welcome! And good for you for taking care of the wild cats and making sure that they don't produce more. That was a problem where I used to live, and that had a program where they would capture and fix them.
I've had a very hard time naming spiders so I do it very sparingly too. My first T that molted out female was named Seven because when I got her she was missing a leg. (I know they grow legs back, my mom wanted me to name it that, it's still a bit silly). Now I'm not someone that believes in luck really, but when she got that leg back and I checked the molt to find out she was female her name stuck even harder lol.
I completely get it, Chelsea! And that's an awesome name...glad to hear that it's a lady!
I'm on my first T and I absolutely adore them. Theyre a sling. I dont handle them despite the fact that they seem to have no fear of me and tolerate me cleaning and watering the enclosure around them. I dont handle them because that's stressful, because it's dangerous, because I respect them. When they get older would I attempt to handle it, sure. Would I do it regularly, no, would I push it and make them let me handle them, no. My love for spiders is loving watching and caring for them. Do I wish to handle one of my spiders, yes. But I recognize it's completely selfish because I find them adorable. And I would only ever handle them when it's safe and if it doesn't seem to stress them out much. If that means never handling them outside of rehousing or having them touch me with a leg accidentally, id be perfectly happy.
Hello, Karayanna! That's awesome that you think that way. I DO get why people want to handle them, but I just don't think that the risk is really worth the reward. And, if you ever get into keeping old world species, it's good to practice hands-off technique with all of your spiders. Thanks for chiming in!
Beautiful pics Tom, really enjoyed them!
Thank you so much!
This was simultaneously hilarious to listen to and infuriating. You’re a good guy trying to help all the people and tarantulas, but you can’t save them all. Very nice video, I look forward to hopefully seeing more of these videos!
Oh, I know that I can't save them all. I usually give it a shot and give up if I realize that I'm dealing with crazy. haha Thank you!
🎉I’m delighted to learn you have a podcast.🎉 Top tens and faves are unending fun. Now that I’m deeper into the hobby, I’m ready to add more in depth info and topics alongside. This sounds like the perfect addition.
That's awesome! I've been doing the podcast for close to 5 years, so there are quite a few episodes for you to listen to!
So happy to receive this notification ❤️
Thank you so much, Paul!
Woot another Tom video. Nice break for the holiday
Thanks so much, bud!
We are so lucky to live in a time with this technology, You Tube and similar media’s. I say this because of you and, the other tarantula folk who make videos. I spent 3 years watching, learning and planning before I bought my first tarantula. I now have I’ve reached a number I can manage, 5. So my thanks to you all. Keep producing I’ll keep learning and enjoying.
Hey, James! I agree completely. When I got my first in the 90s, information was so much more difficult to come by. Thanks so much!
well done. keep up the outstanding work. You are well appreciated by a great many of us.
Thank you so much, Vladimir!
Massive credit for your responses, your ethics, and your tact! Sadly some of those people who reach out may have untreated or poorly treated mental health conditions, and it will be impossible for you to change their minds. At a certain point you just have to let go and walk away, as sad as it may be.
Thank you so much, Alyssa! I agree, which is why I try to be polite and not demaning. And, yes...there are times where I just have to step away. :)
Personally, I enjoy your videos and format as I do with other Tarantula channels I'm subbed to as well. Nothing wrong with different flavours (Canadian spelling of flavour lol).
Oh and absolutely beautiful pics along with the narration with this vid. Very nice.
Thank you so much! I'm comfortable in what I do and only speak out when well meaning folks try to encourage me to change it. :)
This was fantastic, good on you for staying positive! :)
Thank you so much!
Fascinating listen...as a new keeper I learned everything I could from reputable keeps with years and years of experience, and lots of them...not just one...I'm hoping that's the reason they are thriving (so far). I can see how frustrating the last one especially was. I do wonder in a big enough enclosure if you could possibly house a fossorial and an arboreal without much danger; I wouldn't do it (I know better) but it did make me think a bit as they would be unlikely to ever come across each other.
Hello! With housing an arboreal with a fossorial, I just don't see what the point would be I guess. Sure, they many not come in contact with each other if it was a huge enclosure. That said, fossorial species will come out and explore at night, and most arboreal species will come down to the ground. Eventually, they would encounter each other. Thanks for chiming in!
@@TomsBigSpiders It was just something that got me curious and thinking...not something I would even consider...just curious wonderment and left field thoughts
Ah, this kind of reminded me of the conversations I’ve had with people about dogs! I was brought up with lots of pets, dogs usually and I learned many things the hard way. Dogs are dogs and I’ve had absurd conversations with people who thought I was abusing my dog because I trained her and she was very disciplined. She’s a massive, massive dog and I know how dangerous she could be if she wasn’t well trained. Specifically with food aggression and possessiveness. “Would I do that to a child?” Excuse me? Because i train my dog and I wasn’t letting my dog go wild and eat human food I’m abusing my dog, who knew?
…. I was one of the people who had ping pong balls with my Acanthoscurria geniculata 😭I took it out after she molted and everything looked very cluttered in there.
Oh, don't even get me started on the dog thing. Hahaha I know so many people who should NEVER have dogs. What breed is yours?
A lot of people do the ping pong balls. haha
@@TomsBigSpiders her grandfather was a Sikkimese mastiff, her grandmother was a golden retriever. Her mum ran off and came back pregnant so we don’t know who or what the father is.😅 she’s an interesting mix. Fortunately it seems the retriever gene is the strongest. Even if she looks like a mastiff 😅. Sadly, I had to leave her back in india with my family when I left to work abroad 🥲.
Love the hilarious content, some of the questions are KRAZY!
Hahaha You can't make this stuff up. Thanks, Steve!
So far I've named all my T's but I only have 9, I've always been weird about naming things. I collect antique sewing machines and they all are named. LOL. I certainly don't think any of my tarantulas respond to their names though.
Great podcast, I enjoy your channel so much and it's a treat when I see a new video has been uploaded.
And, to be clear, there is NOTHING wrong with naming them. I just wouldn't expect them to come when you call them. haha Thank you so much!
GREAT PICS ! GREAT PODCAST. Yea, Ts are not scary but sometimes their humans are LOL!
Thank you so much! Humans TOTALLY are! Hahaha
I have always wondered when I have been sat in the park, watching a T. Blondi wander past wearing a sun hat and glasses, munching a hot dog, and whilst on its mobile phone to it's cardiologist, saying 'Hey doc! What can I say I can't resist the mustard!'
BAHAHAHAHAHA Perfectly explained!
Tom brilliant podcast, i think ive heard it all now, God help those spiders 🕷. As you said Tom some people won't listen to reason. At the end of the day, you have to do what's right for your spiders 🕷 and not for yourself. Thanks for sharing those situations with us and i hope that those people learned the error of their ways but i doubt it very much.
Thank you so much, George...this one was almost theraputic to make. Haha I try to reach the ones I can, but if they aren't listening, I have to move on. There are too many other people out there who WILL listen to reason.
Wow! Really surprising what misinformation is out there. I do name mine though, but realise that's purely for me and they do not know/care 😆Lovely photos of your tarantulas btw.
Hello, Alison! Yeah, it's kind of crazy. And thank you!
"Spiders don't enjoy movies."
Lol. Clearly. For one thing they can't see the screen. Though, I am curious just how sensitive their hairs are to air vibrations. I've heard it compared to "having your body covered in eardrums", which makes me wonder just how much information can they discern from airborne sounds.
Hey, Brian! I'm sure that they DO "hear" more than we give them credit for. I've heard some compelling annecdotal evidence that they respond to the bass in a human's voice. However, responding to a name? Nahhh...haha
Love your podcasts!!! Did the quiz, missed one #16.... forgot about the care sheets...., the last one I got 2 out of 3 right sort of. I filled it out at work. I will have to check but I am sure you will agree with my 3rd answer. Can't wait for the harder version! Let's see how bad I fail! LOL. With this "video" I can scroll through the comments! YAY!
Hey, Dusty! Thanks so much, bud. That was fun, so I will definitely be doing it again!
The most bizarre thing for me was someone dressing up their spider. In my experience with dogs (I had dogs for 50 years) they don't like to be dressed up neither even something like a raincoat. A lot of people humanise their animals and it's not fair to the animal. Thank you for educating people like me it's much appreciated. Greetings from the UK
Hello from the US, Bernadette! Yeah, that one blew my mind a bit. And I agree completely. Anthropomorphizing spiders is fine until it puts the keeper and spider in danger. Thank you!
Exactly I felt bad putting a sweater on my dog even though it was literally freezing. You can tell they are not feeling it!
THANKS TOM! Great topics. I used to work 8 years independant pet retail, and ran into so many similar moments. At the end of the day, the only comments I defend these days are that all pet shops are trash and do wrong. We, and 2 others here in Virginia (Inc FNT new storefront) did/do right, but I've seen endless sad enclosures at other shops. I hope the rhetoric of "all pet shops" are evil turns into "most don't do right" some day.
Thanks for the great podcast, perfect for my bike ride I just finished!
Hey, bud! Yeah, I try to refrain from saying that, as I DO know that there are some good ones out there. And, I do hear some great stories from people who have found the good ones. I'm not into absolute statements, as that is unfair to the folks who ARE doing it right. Hope the bike ride went well!
It seems like specialty stores generally do better in terms of information and husbandry. Not all, for example, I have been to some fantastic bird stores and have been to a couple awful ones. However, generalist stores like Pet____, are definitely not the way to go.
The one that said that her Ts responded to their name calls killed me, hahaha. And the Hot Dogs one. Take them to McDonald's.
Yeah, that was a "fun" conversation. hahaha And why a hotdog? They are terrible for US!
I hate when people say "they wouldn't let me if they didn't like it" oh I didn't realize abuse must not exist at all then. Glad she cleared that up for us!
Voice thing could absolutely be true. Just like how I always say my bunnies names when I feed them so they know their names mean food. It's definitely not the same as a dog and I don't NEED to be able to call my rabbits either lol really only animals that go outside in some capacity actually need a name so you can call them back
Maybe I'll start trying to condition them like that lol you never know
I didn't really think their hearing was that good honestly lol I figured they perceived the world more through touch and vibration
Sorry to hear about the negativity having looked at many tarantula channels yours is at the top lots of information, you don't push merchandise thanks for all you do
Key, Kevin! No worries...I honestly do very well with not getting a lot of negativity. I just think that, for some people, I don't "fit" what they think the average UA-camr should be. :)
Wow !! Poor you. Tom you do know that you have a lot of patience. Five minutes after listening to these bizarre things, I am thinking these people shoulnt even be called tarantula hobbyists. anyway keep up the good work Tom
I've been teaching for 19 years, so it comes with the territory. haha Thank you so much!
I know a guy who dose the cricket thing and puts them in with enclosure and told me “they will eat when they want” I talked to them about molting and was told “they can’t hurt them” 🙄 everything about the husbandry is wrong enclosure and all … but they have been keeping longer then me so they know better 🙄 … I have to keep to my self when I hear them talking about differences in new world and old world and the information is completely wrong … I keep both they have only ever kept brachypelma from petco 🙄… ugh so frustrating… thanks for what you do
I don't get why folks can't understand that. It's happened to me! It IS incredibly frustrating when keepers remain purposely ignorant. UGH. Thanks for chiming in!
Hello great video information Tom
Thank you so much, Moon!
These stories are sad for those tarantulas
That's the thing...as funny as they seem at first, they are actually quite sad.
I love you Tom don’t ever stop
Thanks so much, Jake...I truly appreciate that!
Yo siempre disfruto mucho ver sus videos...
Muchas gracias, Gustavo! :)
omg lol sunglasses...my sider feels very uncomfortable when i rehouse them, i have a curly that is very comfortable if i handle her, but i don't handler her every month or so
Yup, just when you think that you've heard everything. haha
I think the sleeping with the tarantula one is funny because I’m kinda guilty of this. I didn’t have a bare tarantula on my chest but back from around 2014-2016 I did keep my g porteri’s enclosure on the massive futon I slept on. She was my only T at the time and I guess I enjoyed the company since those were really tough times. I knew she had no attachment or enjoyment out of it, but still. Pretty dumb looking back on it but it’s funny how she really helped me by just sitting there. I didn’t have anyone. Just had this little rose hair that felt nothing for me. I had her from 2012-2020, she was old when I got her. I miss her every day. I don’t think I’d ever do it again, but I like to laugh at my naive 14 year old self.
Hey, Lexi! I think that we've all done our fair share of suspect things when we were younger. It sounds like your G. porteri was quite a sweatheart! :)
Tarantulas do live "communally"..... different species even. The "enclosure" is called the rainforest/jungle/desert....of course it would be hard to recreate this. I don't have 10,000s of square miles to build one.... not to mention the amount of glass you'd need for it😂😂
I don't know if my wife would appreciate me turning my house into a giant spider commune. ;)
@@TomsBigSpiders Well, luckily.. I'm a bachelor.... guess I know what to do with this spare bedroom 😂😂
This is great Tom! Haha
Hahaha Thank you so much!
Awesome!!! Can we get a update on your Chaetopelma olivaceum
I'm working on it, Juan!
@@TomsBigSpiders so I wanted to do a community of them like in the video of them in that rock wall
Not gonna lie sometimes I do get the urge to put funny hats on my Ts 😂
Hahaha
Tom the last time I replied to you I'd said I'd bought a number of exo terras enclosure's and I was changing the mesh for perspex which I did just got a quick question unrelated but you have covered the topic my pokies all mess over the glass except my female Poecolitheria metallica she's mollted six weeks ago she's taken crickets since molting but she has not made any mess I'm worried about impaction she is OK now but have I got anything to be concerned about? Thanks Tom from Wales accross the pond
Hey, Paul! I wouldn't worry quite yet. It can take them a bit to poop and, believe it or not, sometimes they don't even do it on the glass!
@@TomsBigSpiders Tom Thanks for replying so promptly been a bit of a worry Daves little Beasties said pretty much what you said so I can relax and stop worrying now Thanks for reassuring me Tom you're awesome
yeah... the channel is soooo boring i cant wait for another Tom notification. people need to get real. i think some people are here solely for entertainment (feeding videos handeling videos or suspense.) this channel is EDUCATIONAL as hell. i come here to hear this knowledge and learn some rehousing techniques from you. which i have already and put to use with my crazy H. Pulchripes. So for the folks who wont say it I will, THANK YOU for taking the time to teach me.
Hahaha Thanks, Jason. Some folks just want more flash and angry spiders. That's not what I'm doing this for. Thank YOU for the very kind words and for commenting!
@@TomsBigSpiders no doubt. i freakin love this channel. and yeah the channels that show flashy mean spiders for views arent really helping the hobby grow it runs people away. and the people that thats all they want probably arent even keepers if were being honest. this channel is for the real keepers and your time and effort is appreciated
Only one of my tarantulas has a name,and it is Possum so called because it plays dead when you try to rehouse or clean its enclosure,the first time it did it was as a sling i found it lying limp and prodding produced no response so assuming it had died started clearing out its enclosure ,it suddenly jumped up bolted out the enclosure off the table and behind a bookcase.I caught it and thought it was a one off but it keeps trying the same trick.None of my other Trinidad Olives exibit this behaviour so i dont think it is a species related ability to use Tonic Immobility.
Awwww...that sounds awesome! Most folks don't realize that some will do that. I've had a couple pull that trick on me, and it always freaks me out. Great name!
When you started saying about the person who kept the feeders and the tarantula together… I just started laughing even though that’s really not funny… Just some people’s thought process really amuses me lol
Hi, Jose! Yeah, it was amusing to me at first until he actually argued with me about it. haha
I read somewhere on somebody's channel comments this guy saying he kept a light on for his scorpions at night so they weren't left in the dark!!!
Oh my Lord...that is SCARY. haha
I named my Davus Pentaloris, but she is my first T….and…I have two potbellied pigs that live in my house, so guess what my T’s name is? Lol. I don’t think…no, I know she doesn’t care about a name. She actually doesn’t care about my human world at all….but I love her little spider world and trying to learn all I can so she can live a healthy long life. Naming is more for human comfort. I agree with you the spider cares not about us, other than after awhile associating their keeper with food….and too much light, vibration, etc…so we are more of an annoyance with an occasional benefit….lol. Thank you for your vids. Between you and 2 other main T UA-camrs I am learning so much.
Some of the email stories you shared, I can’t help but think they were written by those with mental health issues. The guy with the temp fixation sounds like severe OCD, whereby everything must be controlled…..dressing up the spiders….depression? Major personality disorder? Same with the person who sleeps with her T. I am so happy that your responses were kind whilst trying to teach.
Thank you so much, Lesley! I have some named ones as well, and I will continue to name them as things come to me. :) And you may very well be correct about the mental health issues, which is why I always try to be polite when addressing such things. Thank you so much for your comment and for the kind words.
Where do we listen to the podcasts, I'd love to start listening.
Damn I guess I better not send pics of my A Seemanni dressed up as an E murinus 😂 xx
Hey, Laura! I think that I put a bunch of links in the description for interested folks! Thank you! and...BAHAHAHAHA
When I was a kid maybe like 9/10 I did exactly what one them did. I’d keep the crickets with the spider because I thought it was natural.. but a week or so later I saw and immediately removed them.. and I still have the spider to this day😂
I think that we've all done stuff like this early on. hahaha It's just scary when people KEEP doing it even after being told that it's flat our wrong.
Have to ask….what T is at 3:24?? I’ve never seen a carapace like that!!!!
Hi, Tina! That's a G. rosea sling.
Every time i call my tarantula by her name she kick hairs to me in response.
Sounds about right. haha
Hearing some of these stories, I think some people should't breed and have forbidden to own Tees. Holy shit!
Love your vids.
Bahahahahahaha Amen, Paddy!
How do you even "spice up" a feeding video, do you need to force feed your tarantulas 4 roaches, and make them bolt everytime? Some people just dont think that much
I agree!
unrelated. for my feeder crickets i set up a little maze with lots of entrances to see if they are smart enough to find the ways to get past the objects. to me crickets,grasshoppers and mantids seem smarter than other insects
Very interesting!
craziest thing ive done (im a beginner btw) is use the hamster tunnels as a premade burrow for my G.Pulchra since i read they are opportunistic burrowers
That's a pretty cool idea? How did it go?
@@TomsBigSpiders She used it alot, so i take it she liked it..it was interesting to watch...im planning a rehouse soon with her i may try get the same effect with cork tubes
Wow ! Those are some really odd things. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. The one playing dress up with her Ts is hard to top. Adding salt to make brighter tarantulas ? Yikes ! Feeding hot dogs to them ? Double Yikes !
The rest I'll just put an imaginary face palm. I commend you on your control for not going all offensive on those people. But wow ! Some of those ideas....
Stay safe and thanks for sharing :)
Some of them are funny until you really think about them...then they are just sad. It sometimes takes me a lot not to lose it. haha Hope all is well!
No worries, we'll sit in our armchairs and make fun of them from here!
Hey, Violet Lily! Hahah Fair enough!
That's funny -- I briefly had the glove box idea too at one point. Pondering your first old-world arboreal will put strange ideas in your head.
My grandmother used to say that "there are some people who, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em." I particularly enjoyed the "they live in the same area, so they must get along" line of reasoning. Yeah, so do cobras and mongooses.
The horrifying thing is that the people who play dress-up and sleep with their spiders have the same vote that you do.
I did, too! hahah Waaayyyyy back when I first started. I abandoned it rather quickly, though.
And that is so true!
Off topic question have ever kept fishes in the past or currently?
We have a fishtank that the old owners left in our new house, but that's about it.
Hello, Mr. Moran!
So, my tarantula (Tliltocatl albopilosus) laid a sac this year, and I thought it was a phantom sac...turns out, it wasn't. Now I have 80 little T albo slings and I need someone to sell/trade them to. I was wondering if you knew a dealer/hobbyist that would like to buy them. I have tried selling them locally, and people contact me saying they want them...then stop responding.
Thank you!
Hello, Vmax! You're best bet may be to wholesale them to a vendor. They tend to be readily available, so you might not get a whole heck of a lot for them, but you could trade for credit as well. That way, you could get rid of them all at once and not be stuck caring for them all.
Loved pictures of your babies! Enjoyed listening to this again. Forgot about the hot dog. Made me laugh out loud. And then they wonder why their T has fecal impaction. I don't know if that will happen. Just saying. Wouldn't take the chance. Its fatal.
Thank you very much! As for the hotdog, they're not even good for humans! Why would you feed them to your spider? haha
Was the woman's bed spider a rosie? And did she say that she would only put her down when she was showering? Because I remember having read that in some forum (arachnoboards?) about 20 years ago and I doubt that there are many more cases like this.
But I too had the idea that Habitrails could make perfect enclosures (just haven't tried it yet) after reading a study about the metabolism of P. canderides where they connected their container to an exploration area like this (which the majority of them readily used). That most T's DO feel a strong need to explore unfamiliar environment (collecting important information about their environment is not necessarily a waste of energy) can be easily proven: leave their enclosures open over night and look how many of them are still in there next morning. :D
But I was disappointed by the dressed-up spiders: I had to press on pause because I laughed so hard for minutes, imagining T's with eight-legged jeans and cute little boots, and then it was just hats and sunglasses, how boring! :D
I thought it was a curly hair, but it could have been. Maybe she had two? haha Dear lord, that's insane! If you try it, let me know!
Tom, I can’t BELIEVE that you don’t dress your tarantulas up in costumes, or sleep with them. Don’t you love them??? Mine all have their Halloween costumes early this year, and I’ll be shopping for some Christmas ones soon. I only sleep with my 3 Aphonopelma Chalcodes, because there’re the most docile ones. My Ball Python sleeps with me to, but he’s usually wrapped around my neck. I think he may get chilly at night. Oh and high temperatures DO in fact promote growth rate. I keep mine under heat lamps, and the temperature stays around 95 degrees. My Brachypelma hamorii has grown from a quarter size sling, to now about 4” in just 8 months. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. In all seriousness, great video as usual, and you must have the patience of a saint!!! Hope you got a little laugh, and to others who might read this, IT WAS ONLY A JOKE!!! As a long time follower of Tom, his videos are EXACTLY the way I keep mine. I’ll usually look up his videos of a species I’m interested in, or just bought, so I know I’m keeping them RIGHT!!! PS, I’m lucky that my tarantulas prefer the cheep $1.00 Walmart hotdogs!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I mean, I do...but ONLY one the weekends. Hahaha Sadly, there is probably someone out there who actually does all this. Wouldn't shock me in the least anymore! Bahah
@@TomsBigSpiders - Me either!!! 😂😂😂
dont forget about letting them also free roam the house since in the wild they arent caged. but only do that with old worlds.
@@jasongonzales5563 - You mean EVERYONE doesn’t let them roam free? My Golden Baboon roams free, and sometimes sleeps with me when it gets cold!!! 😂😂😂
@@chesterswingjr9796 yeah man baboons make the BEST free roamers
My boy good video
Thank you!
I've been keeping for 7 years and breeding for 5. A person I knew personally came up to me for advice on how to care for tarantulas so I gave him some of the things I would do. Everything that I say, he immediately follows up with "oh that's not how google says it should be done" or "the care sheets online says this". He was keeping tarantulas for 2 weeks and he came to me for help knowing I had experience but he didn't listened to a word I said. I immediately blocked him on social media. I was pissed 😂
THAT is the most frustrating thing ever. I will have people ask me advice, and then tell me that I'm wrong. Not to be a jerk, but who contacted who? Which of us has the experience? That woman's poor tarantulas....
@@TomsBigSpiders VERY frustrating. Like I've literally been caring for and breeding tarantulas for years and you've done it for 2 weeks at least consider that 🤦♂️
Those people are beyond helping!!!
I am a total plant freak, i grow plants for 40 years now. How often people asked me for advice only for them telling me that they know better. Unbelievable!!
I don't name ANY of my Ts(100+). Maybe one some may get a name, buy not yet in the 3 years I've been keeping
Hey, Roxy! I have about 200, and four have names. haha
Your channel is for people who want to enter the hobby and true hobbyist.
Thanks so much, bud. That is EXACTLY what I'm going for. :)
Also, what is the species shown @30:59
Pterinopelma sazimai!
@@TomsBigSpiders thank you that was a Hella fast response
10:10 LOL !! Along with the salt, why not add some of those small packets of silica gel to help the desiccation of her tarantulas along... As Ron White said.. "You can't fix stupid" Thumbs WAY up for "hanky-panky" at 43:23, lol... been a while since I heard that phrase... OMG, I've LOVE it if my G. pulchra would come when called ! "Hey, Nyx ! Nyxie, come.. om nom time".... and she'd come trundling over, front legs waving happily... hahaha
Hahaha No kidding, right? And hanky-panky is such an old term that it's funny to me. haha Thanks!
I had a balfouri commune that escaped as soon as I aquired. took it a whole week to round them up
Oh man...what a pain!
the one with the women putting hats on spiders should be taken as animal abuse
I'm telling you...some people!
My tarantula, reptile tip is feeding crickets and meal worms on tropical fish flakes because fish flakes is very high in vitamin D3 which is something the crickets lack of and I also feed crickets on home grown fruit and vegetables that I wash...
Spiders should be treated like fish human does awesome set up and human put spider in the enclosure and human(s) look
I got my first jumping spider November October 2021 and I called my little friend Chance and he/she is alive and eats out of my hand and he lives in a 2 foot high plastic vivarium that is a foot wide and plastic plants is in the enclosure with thin fake vines and I stuck a foot high piece of slate to the inside of the enclosure and spider likes to explore, ok the spider goes to top at the night but at daytime when am reading a book or on my phone in my bedroom Chance is always watching me....
I got him a friend called Hope but don't think it's wise to introduce Chance to Hope, Hope is a year old aswell and in similar enclosure as Chance so I can another jumping spider and coz the jumping spider is black n white I named the spider Ying Yang and with Put in being 69 and China's leader 69 and President Moon 69 and Queen Elizabeth died at 96 and David Attenbourough is 96 it definately year of Ying Yang...
I then got a Velvet spider to look after I named Chubby he/she not eaten for a whole year but earlier this month the spider had 3 bluebottle flies, 2 large crickets and 2 standard size meal worms and the spider not molted at all yet...
I got a fire leg and spider growing really fast coz within a year I have had to upgrade enclosures 3 times all ready and I got the spider from spiderling...
The fire leg is in a 20×20×21 enclosure and outgrown the bark the spider was hiding under...
Coz of ordering too many fruit flies and small crickets and meal worms from internet I have waay too much insects I am a God for coz can't neglect em and crickets are more demanding and more active than any spider or reptile and take up 80 percent time looking after spiders n reptiles...
I have all my tarantulas on a made shelf all in same size enclosures put heat mats outside vivarium starting from left side then a vivarium next to the other one as a heat mat then the next one as a heat mat and so on and so on so that there is heat and the left to the right in the enclosure...
I have never intended to look after spiders in my life but I find myself having 16 of em and I been through hell since 2018 to 2021 and coz I had to have two dogs put sleep at 18 year old in human years I needed something to look after coz all my 42 years of being on this earth i have always looked after something whether its cats, dogs, rats, mice, ferrets, birds, rabbits, lizards, fish, terrapins but didn't want a massive responsibility that hurts the wallet or go prison for neglect...
If I told anybody my story from 2018 to 2021 you'd think how on earth am I still alive but we can grow weaker or we can grow stronger and with many distractions I have the better for me and to see every spider alive every day it makes me feel proud and I do weight lifting and am a vegetarian and I like to walk for miles with my shadow and only thing I drink is water, yeah I smoke weed and my local authority hates my guts for everything I do coz they was hoping I'd go depressed or angry but it never happened, Master Lee gets stronger and today I am stronger than yesterday and tomorrow I will be stronger than what I am today
The roach and cricket food we make is made with fish flakes, oats, and corn meal blended.
I'm so glad to hear that you're doing well, Master Lee! I can totally get how rewarding taking care of animals can be!
p.s. at 22:14 in the video what T is that?
Orphnaecus sp. blue Panay. :)
@@TomsBigSpiders i gotta have it. gonna find me one
The great wall of spiders.
Hi, Diego. haha Yes!
I rarely name animals, I am the type that wouldnt name a dog. Any animal that I own that does have a name earned it somehow, like my Arizona blonde named Gertrude because she gives off sweet old lady vibes and I had her for over a year before she got a name.
Love the name Gertrude! hahaha that's awesome!
Unfortunately there are some delusional ideas and practices floating around. I have had experiences where two of these “ideal” scenarios took place, but they were by accident and not design. One time I had my B. smithi/hammorii/anitha, on my lap at the computer and I dozed off briefly. Luckily she was still on my lap in the same spot when I woke up. I didn’t think of making a practice out of taking a nap with a spider out of containment. Second instance was two different species (Haplopelma/Cyriopogopus) in an enclosure with a makeshift divider between them. Inevitably, one of them breached the divider and ripped a leg off the other, then either crawled back over to her side or took up residence in the other spider’s burrow. Both instances occurred over a decade ago, and I haven’t tried them out again since. Perhaps the inter species residency has been taken after photos in books or scenes in movies or on talk shows where different types of inverts are mingling like the red knee tarantulas and emperor scorpions in “The Mummy Returns” or on those fear factor shows where a heap of tarantulas are dumped on contestants, which is super cruel to start, let alone them not being communal and cannibalistic. At least in the movies, they are wrangled by trained animal handlers, we hope, and are not harmed in real life. I can deal with the feeder roaches and locusts or whatever else they are using these days in contender face offs. Just no more pet inverts or other pets on the chopping block.
First off, thank you for mentioning the divider one. I've had a lot of people come to me with ideas about dividing up cages, and I always try to warn them from doing so. I almost did it myself years ago. And I think that we ALL do things early on that we learn from (and sometimes dodge catastrophe in the process). There's a big difference between that and the folks that try to convince others that it's right. Thanks for chiming in!
Hat and glasses??!!!! Omg, hahahaha
That was one of the worst.
Sometimes you just gotta let stupid people be stupid, and let mad people be mad
And sometimes you have to do a podcast about it to clear your head. :)
Sometimes you wonder about some people geeezuz sleeping with your spider 😱😳. 😂 They need to get themselves a doll 😂
Yeah, or a mate! haha Thanks, Sandra!
The salt thing does make sense in a roundabout sideways logic way. Our desert soil here in AZ does contain salt (its the bane of we gardeners) and we have a. Chalcodes here that do just fine. That said, the salt in the sand here is not the same as cooking salts and to add salt to substrate is courting disaster. Smh.
I definitely got where this person was coming from, but I think that this is a case of someone trying to replicate the natural habitat to an obessive (and potentially dangerous level). And then there was the part about them having brighter colors...: )
Only thing that really irritates me is the elitism in certain hobbiest community's when people feel entitled to tell others in the case of tarantulas and with people jumping into OW Ts, I see alot of experienced owners talking down on people decisions to keep a certain OW and then be very condenseding to the OP. Imo if someone feels that they are ready for OWs, give them the pros and cons of the genus/species give them the husbandry of said T and any other things you might think is important to be aware of. But I take huge issue when I see people trying to talk down on others because they might not be "experienced" ect ect. Its annoying 😒
Yup, I completely agree. That type of behavior just turns people off from reaching out for help. I've seen it on some boards that I've been on and in FB groups.
Omg some of these ..... who dresses up a spider .... I'm weak 🤣🤣🤣🤣
There are some STRANGE people out there, Hayley. haha