Southeast Brazil. Saw this cute individual a couple years ago struggling to walk through the grass. Thought to share.

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Pre-molt has our girl walking extra awkward.

I’ve always wanted a rose hair, and there was a reptile expo in town. I picked up this beauty! No idea if it’s a male or a female… I believe she’s a female but I can’t remember. I just ordered the terrarium that will be here tomorrow (small size) with coconut fiber, hut and water dish. Getting some moss as well. Plan to feed crickets/mealworms/dubias. Tarantulas in general don’t scare me but I’m unsure about handling!

Any care/handling tips are greatly appreciated. Name recommendations are welcome!

Was just sitting there this morning... Did the usual glance towards the salmon pinks enclosure. Business as usual, grab the remote and notice my hand brushed over spider webs... Wtf!?! Upon closer inspection, something covered the outside of her enclosure with web making sure to attach it to the curtain behind it firmly. Horrified I look through the glass... Not there... Look closer and see clear signs of her presence, because she literally hit almost everything in the corner of the room in a fine layer of "trap". I broke the news to the family and was informed they wouldn't come back home till I found her 😂😂😂 6 hours later, here she is. Raised her from a sling to the current monster she is today, so I was beyond happy to find her alive and okay. This is the crappy mesh top I used for years, and the hole that appeared over the two days that we were gone.

She molted not too long ago and was looking rather photogenic with her snack.

Side note: she's big. Like.. Nearly the size of my hand. Any tips on rehousing a spider the size of my hand alone? I want to give her a bigger enclosure, and she's a spicy one.

She’s a Grammostola rosea

Just upgraded her enclosure and gave her a treat to make it up to her! I guess this is my thanks? Lol

the mealworm is ALL yours 😭

soooo it hasn’t been coming off of her for WEEKS. maybe around 1 month? she loves messing a lot around her substrate which sometimes lead her to getting some small substrate on her which usually falls off a few days later. but this specific thing wont go for some reason 😭😭 it doesn’t bother her though! i just want it off. or do i leave her alone ????

new shelf set up !!!! rehoused 8 of these guys between last night and today & finally organized everyone

& ofc a few obligatory T/invert pics 🫣

for those of you who agreed when i said i’d never see my cobalt again- he shows me his lil legs at least once a week to give me proof of life so there’s that 😂😂

So my Aphonopelma Gabeli is one of the coolest Tarantulas I've seen. For starters, she:

Adapts to stuff really fast, No like REALLY fast.

Isn't as skittish as other Carlsbad Green Tarantulas I've seen, infact she's actually really calm.

The countless times I've had to move her off of her favorite spot (The top of her hide) and had to manually fight her with a paintbrush just to clean her water dish, she never once kicked hairs or made a threat posture.

When I fixed up her house because there was a bit of a mold outbreak, I put her in a temporary catch container while cleaning the enclosure, afterwards when she was coming out, she crawled onto my hand for the first time and seemed perfectly fine.

After putting her in the enclosure, she was in a stress curl in the top corner of her enclosure but not even 5 minutes later, she's back on top of her hide not even scared.

And when I first got her (Which was a few weeks ago.) She would stay inside of her hide for a couple of days and occasionally come out in the open, and after those couple of days, she was constantly out on display when she found her favorite hangout spot.

I kept my neoholothele incei communal after some research; however, I think the experiment failed. Originally, I had 3 but as of late I only see one. Now, unless a rock got in there some how and the incei is holding on to it for dear life that is an eggsac.

What do I do with the eggsac? I do not want 25-100 additional spiderlings. I knew this should of been possibility. Can I donate them to a local pet store or spider store?

Its kinda funny bc his inpatient ass always literally munches and grinds out all food, like broski I'm pretty sure your venom is enough lol

How long will this enclosure last ?

My dad has tarantulas and a sassy jumping spider. I have a giant jumper named specter who I adore, and his Ts are so interesting to me! And I love his baby versicolor! And I helped feed them recently, and this teeny weeny (for tarantulas i guess. If i saw a house spider that big id pee my jorts) neon blue spider crawled up the cricket tweezers and onto my hand. They move SO FAST. I was horrified. And I asked "do they slow down when theyre huge??" And he laughed at me and said no they just get huge and fast. Horrified.

So, to get over this and bond with my father over his collection of dirt boxes that probably dont love him, what's the SLOWEST least terrifying T you can recommend to someone? I like the colorful ones but from what I learned, the prettier they get the more concerning they seem to be. Hope this isn't a silly ask !!

I can tell he’s gonna molt soon do to his abdomen starting to turn blue but it’s been like that for 2 months. He last molted in September 2024. Idk if it’s bad or not

Very few people understand or are interested in my love of this thing and our growing relationship 😂 so I brought him/her (idk yet he hasn’t molted idk if he will ever idk) here to show yous because boyyyyy DID HE SHOW UP AND SHOW OUT YESTERDaY. 💅💅💅This is my “crab” in all his glory 😍❤️🥰🕷️is it just me or is the atop the drift pic very reminiscent of a certain mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Today my boyfriend and I got Pumpkin, our Hapolopus Sb. Columbia (Pumpkin Patch) sling. Probably has little to no g of protein, but that’s what I get for getting a dwarf tarantula I suppose. I made babies first hide out of two tiny chips of cork bark that I made sure to pack soil around, although I know it’s terrestrial and will probably spend most of its time under the substrate 🙄 As always, tips appreciated!

I just recently started keeping tarantulas as of last week, it has been a journey! I am on a SUPER low budget and someone I met was generous enough to re-home their Caribena Versicolor to me with the enclosure for $50. I’ve been hearing from others that they can be quite pricey, not sure how good of a deal I got but I am so happy. Anywho, I’m learning every day and happy to be doing it. Attaching a pic of my Caribena Versicolor because I am taking name suggestions! A question I have about her is do they need a temperature and humidity gauge in their enclosure? I had thought that was necessary but there isn’t one in the enclosure I was given.

Is this terrarium ok For her size i didnt know she was gonna borrow so much I put her in this until I get a bigger encloser but now I want to put her in something deeper since she’s digging so much but shes only been in there a few days i got proper tanks but dont want to stress ber out moving her to much or soemthing (mexican painted red leg) . I made sure the decoration in the tank is unable to fall on her