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<blockquote data-quote="Volkswachter" data-source="post: 188224" data-attributes="member: 34028"><p>Yeah, just piling on to what everyone else has already said. Tarantulas are fascinating creatures which are wonderful to observe, to study, and to raise but they are not for handling. A fall from even a few feet can seriously injure or even fatally injure a tarantula. My solution to this "problem" was to also get into the reptile hobby, so I have two beardies, 3 leopard geckos, and a gargoyle gecko, all of whom are happy to be handled and benefit from the enrichment of being out of their enclosures and free to roam for 20-30 minutes a day.</p><p></p><p>The fun of tarantulas is watching their feeding response, watching them rearrange their enclosure (my A. Hentzi are little bulldozers and rearrange their houses all the time) and raising them from slings and going through the whole process with them, even docile species should not be handled, if you're really interested in something similar, I've found that "free feeding" my calmer tarantulas is a good experience, but just remember it's a good experience for YOU, the tarantula is indifferent completely, but if you want to let a slow, non-bolty specimen out and plop a worm somewhere on the floor for him to blunder into, that's something you can do, but again, this is for your enjoyment, not the T, they're ambush hunters, not active hunters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Volkswachter, post: 188224, member: 34028"] Yeah, just piling on to what everyone else has already said. Tarantulas are fascinating creatures which are wonderful to observe, to study, and to raise but they are not for handling. A fall from even a few feet can seriously injure or even fatally injure a tarantula. My solution to this "problem" was to also get into the reptile hobby, so I have two beardies, 3 leopard geckos, and a gargoyle gecko, all of whom are happy to be handled and benefit from the enrichment of being out of their enclosures and free to roam for 20-30 minutes a day. The fun of tarantulas is watching their feeding response, watching them rearrange their enclosure (my A. Hentzi are little bulldozers and rearrange their houses all the time) and raising them from slings and going through the whole process with them, even docile species should not be handled, if you're really interested in something similar, I've found that "free feeding" my calmer tarantulas is a good experience, but just remember it's a good experience for YOU, the tarantula is indifferent completely, but if you want to let a slow, non-bolty specimen out and plop a worm somewhere on the floor for him to blunder into, that's something you can do, but again, this is for your enjoyment, not the T, they're ambush hunters, not active hunters. [/QUOTE]
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