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<blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 120939" data-attributes="member: 4199"><p>you'll get yelled at from some people if you mention handling T's (not here on this forum thankfully) and some think it's good to handle them. I handle the more docile in my collection. G. rosea, B. albo, B. hamorii, mostly. My son will handle a few others. Last night his D. pentaloris came out to say Hi when he went to fill its water. It's in premolt, so rather than being the spaz it usually is it just crawled onto his palm and sat there. We used to hold both our GBB's, well my son did anyway. Now she's just a moody wench and neither of us trust her enough to try. I haven't tried for quite a while, she hates me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> My GBB will sometimes crawl out of hte enclosure during feeding or watering. Last time it did so it was chasing a roach and ran up the side and onto my hand before it realized the roach couldn't climb the acrylic wall <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>I won't try and hold the A. genic, she's just too moody and defensive, nor the B. sabulosom, she threat poses and strikes at everything. This past weekend i had the lid open to her enclosure and a house fly landed on the top edge of the hide and then took off, barely missed being splatted when she slapped at it. She sat there in threat pose and kept slapping the hide. after a few minutes it got annoying, i tapped her water dish with the tongs to distract her, then she sat in threat pose at the water dish for a few minutes before crawling back in her hide.</p><p></p><p>I won't handle the G. pulchra either, it's too unpredictable. One day it will be calm and watch you clean the bolus and fill the water, next day it grabs onto the water dish and won't let you remove it to clean and fill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kormath, post: 120939, member: 4199"] you'll get yelled at from some people if you mention handling T's (not here on this forum thankfully) and some think it's good to handle them. I handle the more docile in my collection. G. rosea, B. albo, B. hamorii, mostly. My son will handle a few others. Last night his D. pentaloris came out to say Hi when he went to fill its water. It's in premolt, so rather than being the spaz it usually is it just crawled onto his palm and sat there. We used to hold both our GBB's, well my son did anyway. Now she's just a moody wench and neither of us trust her enough to try. I haven't tried for quite a while, she hates me ;) My GBB will sometimes crawl out of hte enclosure during feeding or watering. Last time it did so it was chasing a roach and ran up the side and onto my hand before it realized the roach couldn't climb the acrylic wall ;) I won't try and hold the A. genic, she's just too moody and defensive, nor the B. sabulosom, she threat poses and strikes at everything. This past weekend i had the lid open to her enclosure and a house fly landed on the top edge of the hide and then took off, barely missed being splatted when she slapped at it. She sat there in threat pose and kept slapping the hide. after a few minutes it got annoying, i tapped her water dish with the tongs to distract her, then she sat in threat pose at the water dish for a few minutes before crawling back in her hide. I won't handle the G. pulchra either, it's too unpredictable. One day it will be calm and watch you clean the bolus and fill the water, next day it grabs onto the water dish and won't let you remove it to clean and fill. [/QUOTE]
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