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QotW: Skittish?

timc

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So, I got a new puppy 2 weeks ago and that thing is a lot of work. But, he’s asleep right now so I finally have the time/energy for a Question of the Week!

This week I want to talk about what the most skittish tarantula in your collection is.

Mine, bizarrely, would be my two Aphonopelma chalchodes slings. Every time I open the lid they’re doing laps like usain bolt. It’s interesting because in researching them I understood them to be a “calm” spider, and i’ve had a hentzi in the past that was basically a weird shaped rock lol. But these two are seriously nervous spiders and the larger one is the only spider i’ve had bolt all the way to the carpet in over 2 years. So feeding these two today is what inspired this question.

So, who is your most skittish tarantula?
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(Had to include a picture because despite them being total spazzes, they’re otherwise wonderful spiders)
 

PanzoN88

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It's definitely my Aphonopelma gabeli. A close second/third would be both of my female Aphonopelma hentzi.

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Rs50matt

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AF GBB. No questions asked. Juvenile gbb is fine but the adult, you touch the enclosure she’s running back and forth, put a cricket in she goes mental.
Second would be Nhandus. Especially the Chromatus.
 

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