introducing my 30 year old tarantula! Miss Fatty the Chilean Rose Hair. Grammostola rosea/porteri.
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2020
- hi guys, did something a bit different for this Friday's video, this one is an introduction to my 30 year old Grammostola rosea/porteri tarantula Miss Fatty. she's the one who got me started in the hobby in the mid 90s and still after all the Ts I've had is my very favorite. this vid just goes over a bit of how to care for them and my personal story about her. we hope you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe if you enjoye the video to help others find us, and definitely let us know how we did in the comments below we really love to hear from you guys!
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Just by portraying your first tarantula having lived to the ripe old age of 30 years old, with most in the hobby only living to the age of 25 means that you are not only an exceptional keeper but a leader, a role model to us all! By giving her the nickname "Miss Fatty" means that you might have spoiled her and over fed her a little. To me this reflects not only a genuine love and appreciation for your animals but a profound respect for the sanctity of nature as well! You deserve only our greatest admiration and respect, a true example to us all not merely as hobbiests but to keepers as well!
@travisberthold9659 thank you so much for the kind words! She's still with us and doing well too.
SHES A VERY OLD TARANTULA AND SHE DESERVED TO LIVE A VERY LONG LIFE BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE 16 YEARS OLD EVER SINCE YOU HADE HER BUT NOW YOUR VERY OLD YOURSELF AND THAT VERY AMAZING YOU STILL GOT THIS BEAUTIFUL SPIDER WITHYOU NOW.
Wife and I met after she saw me handling our old science teachers tarantula after school. After getting married we decided to buy a couple slings to represent the first time we met to stay with us througout our marriage 💛
What an awesome story, man! Thanks for watching!
You and Miss Fatty make a great duo! Lots of love from Chile. 💓💓
Thank you! Appreciate the kind words.
Mine is 12 years old and I didnt know they live that long. Wow
great , she soothes my fear
Awesome vid man! My first T was also a Grammostola Rosea I got her when i was 10 years old. Named her Taranchi, she was with me for 15 years before she passed. I miss that spider. She started my love for the hobby and now I have about 6 different ones. Taranchi will always live in my heart. The only T I regularly handled, oddly enough she enjoyed being handled. I say this because I could place my hand on the bottom of her enclosure and she'd walk up and on my hand for me to hold her. You Miss Fatty is a beautiful girl. Fingersc crossed for ya you have many more years with her
Congrats. 33yrs is incredible. She's a special girl. I reeeally want to get a female T, but not one that slow growing and long lived. I might not even be here 30+ years from now lol. Thanks for sharing
Thanks! She's still doing great and we absolutely spoil her rotten, we'll as much as a T can be spoiled anyhow haha
How wonderful she's still alive and kicking!! I'm so happy for you, and send you so much love and care for the day she does decide to leave Earth!! at least you know you've given her such a long, lovely, safe, happy life! You ought to be really proud of that. @@HDArachnids
my grandma is 33
my gf hates spiders, i love them, miss fatty seems like a great chilled spider i can ween her onto (i wont just get one) but if i did what would be the best one as far as biggest/easy to keep
This is amazing, I hope she keeps going on strong
Thank you! She is still with us and doing fine!
Can’t wait until my Rose Hair gets as big as yours, they are pretty tarantulas regardless if you get a G. porteri or G. rosea.
They are definitely slow growers lol I hope you get many years with her tho. Thanks for the view!
She is beautiful, I love how slowly she moves. Great vid. 👍
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 😀
She’s beautiful. 30? Impressive
Thanks! She is still doing well so far. I know it'll probably happen sooner rather than later but I am gonna be absolutely gutted when she does pass.
I just started keeping a porteri, I'm kinda new in the hobby and I hope I can be with my porteri for years like you and that sweetheart.
We hope so too! They are an amazing species, congrats on your new addition! Thanks for watching and for the kind words!
You wld love Aus & NZ. Aus has many venemous creatures-the Syd. Fun. Web & several venemous snakes + crocodiles, cassowaries & great big sharks! But it has lots of beautiful, cute & strange creatures as well. Koala bears are adorable, kangaroos & wallabies fascinating + tasmanian devils, echidnas & platypuses. Scenery is stunning. Australia Zoo is fantastic-founded by Steve Irwin. We dont have any dangerous creatures in NZ cept for the Katipo which you wld probably never see anyway. We have beautiful birds lot of which are threatened species & huge efforts are being made to save them.We have an ancient lizard said to date from the dinasour age-the tuatara-but its quite small & an ancient insect called a Weta-looks like an oversized grasshopper. Our scenery is to die for: mountains, rivers, lakes, forests & beaches + good cities & towns. Hope you make it here sometime. 😊
30 years old. That's like a person of 90 years!😮😊
She's still alive and well yet! Actually just molted again over the summer. Shows no signs of slowing down though I would imagine that will probs be her last molt.
@@HDArachnids that is insane. Subbed. Your husbandry is awesome.
These are my favourite tarantulas!
wow amazin thanks for sharing you are doing an amazing job taking care of her.
WOW!!!!!!!! Incredible. I can't believe you've had her all these years!! Go you :) that's so awesome!!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that was scare about the wild hunger strikes these guys do. I've had my ol girl for 16 years, she's went on a couple hunger strikes lasting over a year I swear it was close to 2 years once I was so scared.
It can definitely be quite concerning haha. She is still doing great thankfully
I literally didn't even know spiders lived for years!!
Its pretty amazing for sure, there are many tarantula species where the females will live 15 years or more. This particular species is known for having a very long lifespan. Thanks for watching we hope you enjoyed the video!
Great story glad she is still doing well
Thanks man, she's still going strong and doing great I really hope she goes another 5 or 6 years. Not ready for this girl to go by any means.
Hi HD. The fact that you’ve had this girl so ling is testament not only to the perseverance of this species but also how masterfully you care for her. I am writing this three years after you posted this video. Is she still with you?
She is indeed still alive and well! Im extremely thankful ive been lucky enough to have her this long. Thank you so much for the kind words.
Wow! Is this kind of longevity unique to the two rose hair species? How long can these fabulous creatures actually live?!?!
@BigJFindAWay it is rare but not unheard of, I've seen 35 years several times in the groups on Facebook. Generally, it is the rose hairs you see hitting that 30ish year mark, though some of the brachypelma species are also incredibly long-lived as well. Several Aphonopelma species also exceed 20 years fairly regularly from what I've seen.
@@HDArachnids Its just amazing to me that spiders can live that long though as we known tarantulas aren't considered true spiders though they are arachnids to be sure.
Very cool old spider, I liked the video bro ,hope very She is still around
Great😊
Wow! Im so impressed. Says a lot for your standard of care. Thanks a lot for replying so quickly. Do you have a lot of Ts plus other creatures? I came across T breeders on line like Dark Den, Dave's Little Beasties, Tarantula Kat & Exotics Lair. Find them fascinating. Has helped me overcome fear of spiders-I dont kill them now but pick them up in a dustpan & take them outside-huge progress for me!
That's awesome! Those are all great channels too. I also really enjoy the tarantula collective. We currently have about 400 or so counting slings from a couple recent sacs. About 150 adults of 75 ish different species.
That's great. The care you all take with your Ts is amazing: housing, re-housing, feeding, rescuing eggs, hatching out slings......Do you have a regular job as well? I live in New Zealand-we only have one venemous spider called a Katipo. They live in sand dunes & they're hardly ever seen. We have the Avondale spider-biggish but harmless. Apparently they used that one in the movie Arachnaphobia. We also have a Tunnel Web-not to be confused with Sydney's Funnel Web which ate deadly. The T Ws can get quite big but they too are harmless. I was gar dening once & disturbed one: it was almost 2" long with a big fat black abdomen. The grass actually rustled as it ran away! Gave me a fright.
@noradinneen1 that is really awesome, i would love to visit nz and australia at some point. we live in North dakota usa. Unfortunately, we only have a couple of spider species that get any size to them in our area. I do have a normal job haha this is just a hobby for my wife and I.
I’ve had my rose hair for (16 years), she has never burrowed. She sometimes does move dirt but not much, rarely goes into her hide but definitely not a terrestrial burrowing spider. Man I’m gonna be so torn up when I lost my girl too. I had a pink toe names boots that lasted for 5 years from a baby. But this girl I bought as an adult and 16 years later lol I will be heart broken it’s why I don’t do pets
That is awesome you have had her so long though, it is tough to lose any pet but you just have to enjoy the time you do have, and hopefully you get many more years to come with her 😀
She is a big beauty!
Thank you! We absolutely love her!
i'm getting one of these next week & this video really helped for advice!
They are an amazing species, and she is still doing well thankfully. I am really glad we could help you out, hope you have just as many years with yours!
wow shes awesome!
thanks, she really has a special place in our hearts for sure!
Awesome video! She's beautiful!
Thank you! We love our girl miss fatty! Easily my favorite T ever.
Another amazing video mate.
thanks Jo!!!
Amazing
Thank you! She's still doing great 👍
Great content Dave!
Thanks man! Appreciate it
Have only just come across this & realised its 3 yrs old. Is she still alive? That must be a record for a T in captivity. Congratulations!
She is still alive and well yes! I'm honestly dreading the day she does pass but hopefully that won't be for a while yet.
@@HDArachnidsbro I love your videos please make more
@camerondalton I do hope to get back into making vids sooner or later here. Ty for the love man!
What a beauty
Thank you 😀 She is still doing great too!
Great video
Thank you! She is still doing great too
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Its still alive until now?
Yes, she is! Still doing very well
Def a porteri buddy
Yea im fairly certain she is what is called porteri, now the question thst lies tho is will genetic analysis show they are different species or location variants of the same species which is actually being worked on currently. Either we we sure love this old girl tho. She's still with us today and going strong
Yeah I think over time 2 color morphs of same specie. I have actually bred a porteri with the rosea reddish morph. And had successful eggsac. Half were brown and pink carapace and other half was red and pink colors. Not sure truly if same specie with different morphs. I'm pretty sure thats all that happened in the wild. Two of the same specie from different locations found eachother. Its alot like the king baboon color by region and the color region difference with the obt.
I have also had some luck with the different color morphs of the OBT. It was very difficult and went through about 10 or 15 different males of each color strain before I actually had successful pairing. But eventually got the two different colors to accept eachother.
she is beautiful
Thanks man! She is pretty special to us for sure
@@HDArachnids I bet she is 30 years old wow that is a testament to your husbandry skills they must be impeccable..
well i wouldnt say impeccable lol i make plenty of mistakes.. like I said for the first 10 years or so she wasn't kept in the best conditions but as the hobby evolves I try to as well
@@HDArachnids yeah but she is thriving now
Great video man, loved it, really chilled guy, good vibes!
With you having experience such as yours I was hoping you could take a min to possible help me.
My Chilean Rose only eats about 2-3 times per year. She has a tank slightly bigger than yours & two hides. One is a fake rock type that double up as a hide and a bowl and the other is a slate hide. There's also fake leave inside to hide the entrances. She's also on a shelf in my room that doesn't receive much light, even during the day when my window is open, is this important? Should she receive more light?
I feed her mainly large adult locusts but she doesn't eat and I never know when to feed her. I buy her locusts periodically but they go to waste:/
Tried the adult nymph green ones and small cockroaches, same thing. I also use specific substrate for a Chilean rose.
She's pretty docile and doesn't seem stressed. I also use s heat mat, would a lamp be better to use during day and mat at night or would that make no difference?
Sorry for long comment, I don't expect you to read all of it. If you do, thanks, I appreciate it!
Just want to see my T eat more. Idk if something is wrong with her or not but she's been going this way for years. The only think that gets me is when I first bought her, the pet shop owner said "feeding her once a week would be fine." She initially had a slightly smaller tank about your size and I upgraded it a bit to see if it made a difference (it didn't). It's not huge either, just a bit bigger.
If you're willing to share any tips at all that would be great!
Thanks I appreciate the kind words and no problem at all helping you out. Unfortunately with this species long periods of not eating are very common, mine has gone a year and a half without eating more than once. I offer her food every 2 or 3 weeks generally and if she doesn't eat it within 24 hours I remove it and try again next time. We have a roach colony so we always have feeders on hand. The waste thing is tough, if you have a local pet shop thst will sell judt one feeder at a time thst would be an option or you could simply add more tarantulas to your family 😀. The heat matt is actually not good for tarantulas of any species, same with a heat lamp. Any species in the hobby will thrive just fine at normal room temps anywhere from 65 F on up is perfectly safe. A heat matt can actually cook your T if it gets hot enough. They generally burrow to escape heat and don't have the capacity to realize the source is underneath them and as far as lamps go a quick search will bring up just as many horror stories. Pet shops tell you that you need them to sell product basically. As long as your room isn't dipping into the 50s regularly I would absolutely remove any direct heat source and adjust the room temp instead. As far as light or a photo period goes, they will be just fine in basically any setting as long as it is not in direct sunlight which can quickly overheat an enclosure. Dark all the time is fine, some light during the day is fine, lights on at night are fine. None of these will adversely affect a T other than it maybe staying hidden during the brighter periods. I hope this has been helpful and I suggest checking out a few groups on Facebook to learn more and see what is out there. There are several great groups, The Tarantula Life is one I highly recommend and actually admin for. The Tarantula Collective is another great group as well.
Hi. Loved this video. This was my first T back in 1991! A £30 un-sexed adult from my local pet shop. Unfortunately sold it in 1994.. Yours looks huge! What's her diagonal leg span now that she's about thirty years old? I just have a 3cm sling now...
Hi, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. She's right around five and a half to six inches dls currently. Still doing great 😀
Does anyone know how old they live? I have one that I have had for 25* years.
That's awesome man, im really glad you still have an old girl like that, I hope you get many more years with her! I dont think an upper age limit has been scientifically established to be honest, most of the reports are anecdotal by hobbyists to my knowledge but the oldest one I've seen someone post about that I believed was aprox 34 when she passed. I would imagine that 35 ish is around the max but I'm not an arachnologist thats just my best guess from what I've seen and read. Thanks so much for watching and supporting the channel we really appreciate it!
I read they're for beginners cause of less agression . Is that true?
They do make a great beginner species. They are very hardy and forgiving of husbandry mistakes and tend to be pretty mellow, although temperment definitelyvaries between individuals of any species. No tarantula is really aggressive persay, they just get defensive when disturbed. As long as you respect the animal and interact properly in a given situation, you don't really need to worry too much about that too much.
how do you care for the pink rose ?
Just make sure you have an appropriately set up and sized enclosure, water always available in a dish, offer food weekly and you will be good to go. Thry do not need lights or any heat source. Room temperature will be just fine.
@@HDArachnids it seems your enclosure is wider than ussual, I try replicate your ways
Hey bud, love the fatty you got there. Lol. I have a rosea and shes awesome 👌. Besides from the hunger strikes shes very easy to maintain and take care of my question for you is what is the best way to sex tranchulas😅 curious to know because I believe my tarantula is a female but just not certain
The best way is to check the molt for female organs, you can find numerous vids on how here on the tube, alex at tarantula haven has the best one I have seen personally. they can also be sexed ventrally by someone who knows what to look for. There is a group on Facebook called "flap or no flap" you can get a pic of her underside and post there and get some help with it. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend!!
@@HDArachnids awesome 👌 thanks man
Can you please post a new video
i did :)
What's her size?
She's approximately 5 inches dls
Ah si, el bosque de placilla esta lleno de ellas xd y son incluso mas grandes que esa ajjsjsjs
How is she now? Any updates?
She is doing great still. Been on a hunger strike the last couple months as usual lol but she looks great and is showing no signs of aging really.
@@HDArachnids Thanks for the reply. Appreciated. Good to know that hope she lives 10 years more. Btw what is the key to have that lifespan?
@@Alone-go2is i really have done nothing special. Just keep them in an appropriate enclosure and feed em and keep water in the dish and its about that simple lol. Honestly for the first 10 years or so my husbandry was horrid as I listened to the pet shop employees. She made it through like a trooper though
What’s up Dave
Not much just getting set to record an interview my buddys son wants to do with me about tarantulas for a school project actually
@@HDArachnids awesome
@@HDArachnids keep telling my son would be a good senior project to doing a breeding project and record it all
That would be a great idea for a senior science project for sure. Just finished the interview gonna edit it and throw in some feeding clips and pics of various spiders and post it and he is gonna use the video for his project.
Bye bye butterscotch
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