The Basics of Tarantula Care
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- We discuss if tarantulas are easy to take care of if tarantulas make good pets and information for beginner tarantula keepers. We are joined by Ryan of Marshall Arachnids. Ryan and his partner Jess run Marshall Arachnids, and they are focused on promoting a natural history-based captive husbandry for tarantulas. Ryan and Jess are focused on adding the elements of husbandry back into tarantula care that we find in the wild, such as heating, lighting, photo periods, misting and rain cycles, and humidity/temperature drops. If you're somebody who either keeps tarantulas or wants to get into tarantula keeping, this will be a very powerful episode for you.
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0:00 Coming Up
2:36 Welcome Ryan & Background
14:36 How Did Frog Conservation Impact Your Tarantula Care?
23:35 Tarantula Care Myths
39:14 Quick Message from Dillon
42:45 Hierarchy of Needs
47:30 Caribena Versicolor Setup (Heat, Light, Substrate, Misting)
58:18 Heat Bulb for Tarantula to Bask
1:07:42 What Prey Items Do You Use?
1:09:13 Tell Us About Marshall Arachnids
1:12:44 Closing Thoughts
1:14:37 Outro
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I have relocated my enclosures to a spot in the room where the tarantulas I keep get morning sun. Right now they have no extra heating and I followed the roomtemp is fine rule. After observing the behaviour of my tarantulas it is very clear that they do come out to get closer to the hotter parts of the enclosure where the sun meets the glass. Basking seems to be definitely something they seek out when they have the opportunity. I have also observed over the years that their growth and activity goes up when the temperature in the room gets higher in summer. Whilst they get stunted when kept only at "room temperature "( in which I am comfortable ) I definitely will expand on my experimentation with heating and lighting ( obviously cautiously and monitored ) in order to find the optimum conditions within their enclosures. Thank you Ryan and Dylan for this episode. It really confirmed behavioural tendencies I observed myself. My motto coming from my education in animal care is : From acceptable care to admirable husbandry.
Thanks for watching the episode! Very interesting to hear your observations, nice to hear that your open minded to new methods of care 👌🏼
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Sidenote: for enrichment, which is something i havent really heard anyone talk about, Ive found my hamorii likes to move ping pong balls around. I figure in the wild they move small things around near their burrow. Mine likes to move them into corners, but i move them other places after a while, and she pushes the balls around again.
Not sure what kind of enrichment i can give to an arboreal though.
Its interesting and cute to watch her move them around
That is fascinating! When my hamorii is bigger, I’m definitely gonna try that!
Excellent! I loved when Ryan said he didn't show or tell anyone what he was doing. I totally get that. I've been keeping reptiles for 60 years but just got my first tarantula about 6 months ago. The typical "Arizona Blond". I watched all the "experts" videos...and decided none of what I heard made sense for this particular spider. I was not aware that most of these spiders are wild caught so when I got her the "2 to3 inch female" turned out to be what appears to be an adult female that was starving and dehydrated. (Deflated wrinkled abdomen). I live in Eastern Oregon where it is still below freezing with less than 10 hours a day of sunlight. Also several thousand feet higher in elevation than where this poor girl likely came from. So I gave her a 2ft long desert set up with loose dry substrate. I made her a cork cave positioned to shield her from seeing me moving around. I tiny 25 watt CHE at one end with a thermostat INSIDE her cave. At the other end a tiny halogen light on 12-14 hrs a day. She comes out every day and sits under the light, happily eats dead pinkies and displays zero defensive behavior. You experts can say what you like.....but she is thriving.
That is amazing! Thanks for listening to the episode and sharing your experience, Lorraine!
And she lets me know when she needs to eat. When I first brought her home she was eating daily. Now....I just rattle a paint brush in the substrate in front of her...if she needs to eat...she will react. If she doesn't need to eat...she turns around and walks away. Her abdomen is about the same size as her carapace and she hasn't asked to eat in weeks.
I wonder if the consensus to not use heating elements or lamps has to do with the fact that most tarantula enclosures are just tiny and don't allow for zones or gradients to form. If the whole enclosure gets heated up by the lamp because it is so small, that's probably bad for the animal. That would be another point for bigger enclosures. I know from keeping and breeding dart frogs and day geckos that there is nothing better than being able to provide the animal with different zones: light/shade, warm/cool, dry/moist UV/no UV. There is probably no other single thing you can do to drastically improve the animal's well being in captivity. And all my animals use it. Even the dart frogs happily sit on the higher perches under the light where it is completely dry for hours and bask.
That is exactly what I was thinking as well!
I've always wondered what more we could do for tarantulas in the hobby. It just seems so neglectful to keep in a small shoebox in a dark room. A lot of people are sticking to the old ways of doing it but I am excited to try out a new possibly more enriching way of keeping.
I was thinking the same thing!
Great content Dillon! 👍 Thanks for the time you put in.
Thank you very much, Ron!
I have a caribena vericolor and have heat Matt on the back and when it’s got cold it goes down to that area in winter interesting video
Maybe we need a video on anthrozoology? It's a fascinating and doesn't seem to have the biggest awareness. When mentioned people want to study it from both anthropology and zoology. I've always wanted to do a phylogeny of goldfish but the cost, I think they are the fish equivalent to dogs. I wonder about reptilian equivalents? Certainly with birds there are pigeons, chickens and such.
I think learning about selective breeding teaches a lot. I always find it difficult the big argument of breeding vs upbringing yet the same people will say don't get a small dog they are nasty or don't get a collie they need a lot of space for their mind.
The balance of inbreeding and outbreeding always needs discussing.
That is a fascinating idea! I will look into that
I personally do provide my Tarantulas and jumping spiders with the small dimmable halogen lights. I point them just off to the side of their enclosures so it warms the area without being directly on any of them. We keep our house between 65 and 68 and that feels way too cold to keep them in my opinion. They stay between 74-80. I personally have seen my jumping spider and larger Brazilian black bask by the lights. I’m interested to hear this and learn more!
I would also like to add that the reason I decided to keep them with a light is because I heard Marshall in The Exotic Pet Collective podcast. It gave me the confidence to start keeping them in a way that isn’t generally accepted and to confidently stand by my decision.
I don't use a heat light mainly due to the type of enclosure I have mine in, but a heat pad on the side of the enclosures because of temp changes that happen in summer with AC. I have my regular light to cycle day and night for my Ts.
Even my Metallica comes out when there's some light. They don't seem to mind light just not SUDDEN light blasting on them
When i upgrade my enclosures i want to mount a heat light above the enclosures to warm the ambient temp around them.
I mist my Metallica enclosure more than my Hamorii since theyre from different biomes. But i do monitor the humidity levels. Typically my metallica is slightly more humid than my Hamorii but i dont mist every day.
Im all for trying to replicate environments my animals would be from in the wild. I think thats super important.
Much appreciated ,,,, well done ,,,, keep it up '
Many thanks
This is funny, I just held my first actual tarantula at an expo last week (curly hair tarantula) and It literally opened my mind on how peaceful and docile these inverts can be! I want one but my wife is still trying to get over the fact of owning a massive arachnid in the house 😂 I’ve owned a tailless whip scorpion in the past and although they are wild looking, they are not as nearly intimidating as a tarantula.
Yeah, it’s amazing how much a positive experience can change your perspective! It’s funny, I’m total opposite. I think the tailless whip scorpions look very creepy! 😆
@@AnimalsatHomePodcast They definitely loon like nightmare fuel but they’re really cool! Their pedipalps are like claws and they’re chelicerae grind up their food, at most they may pinch you! The original Resident Evil games and Resident Evil 0 really sparked my fear of spiders at a young age 😂
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Thank you! 😎
both excessive heat and humidity will kill them, different species do differ in how rapidly they die from it.
Well yeah, any animal on a heat source without a thermostat can get hurt.
Light misting of enclosure once a week is fine. Heat mats, lamps NO.
Thanks for your input!
As we mentioned toward the end of the conversation, I would like to reiterate how important it might be in some scenarios for some species to consider using heating elements. Not every situation calls for such, but when applied correctly it can absolutely be a life saver. Marshall Arachnids has found success keeping close to one hundred species utilizing various heating elements with a mortality rate of less than 1% of the thousands of animals we have have produced and cared for.
It is important for the hobby to move away from this rigid, black and white approach to keeping. We ask that you please keep an open mind, and strongly consider the possibility that others find success with husbandry doing things different :)
As someone who owns hundreds of tarantulas they dont need a heat lamp or mat and they could actaully cause death to the tarantula. So long as you find the temp comfortable in a tshirt then the temp is fine for tarantulas. Tarantulas dont need light, some actaully hide from light and light will cause unnecessary stress. Tarantulas dont need a lot of room, they can get stressed in a large open enclosure, also makes them finding their prey harder, also you will find they will build burrow in 1 corner and stay pretty much there as they feel safe and secure. Last point quite a few different species of tarantula are either endangered or critically endangered, these tarantulas are now thriving in the tarantula keeping community through breeding and unlike the reptile keeping community, we keep our tarantula bloodlines pure, no mutant hybrids you wouldnt find in the wild.
I'm willing to bet you have things in your life you do not /need/, but that improve your overall welfare or quality of life. Something not being necessary to survival isn't a good enough reason not to provide it. Without a doubt an unregulated heating element in an enclosed space can lead to death, but that's true regardless of species. Also lmao at "pure bloodlines" in tarantula keeping - why is there a hobby form of T. albopilosus then? What about things like G. quirogai and pulchra just recently being differentiated, having both been in the hobby for decades most likely? Not even touching on how newly discovered or protected species just magically appear within the hobby... But getting back to the point, having hundreds of spiders that you can keep alive is not a feat worthy of admiration. Actually observing their behavior when offering them different stimuli and then adjusting care based on those observations will always be better than relying solely on the regurgitated information of others. I'd encourage you to actually listen to the information provided here (as well as the previous ep. with Marshall Arachnids) and try things out for yourself with your own tarantulas before writing it off. Why wouldn't you want to make improvements to their quality of life if you have the opportunity? I'm not sure how long you've been in the hobby but folks used to keep their spiders on vermiculite with sponges in their water dishes - I for one am very grateful for the continual improvements to husbandry!