I Love Tarantulas

I bought a chilean rose hair tarantula about two months ago.  I couldn't make up my mind as to what to name him.  He has a hollowed out log with a water and a dish of green gut-load for crickets.  I finally named him...

I belonged to a Tarantula (Support) group for years and they were kind enough to advise me on the care of OPIE, Unfortunately my computer crashed along with the web site I used, so I googled Support Groups and here I am.
Opie started...

About a month ago, Shadow started acting funny and would not eat. He disappeared in his log for days and would not come out.  One friday night b4 i went to work, I looked inside his log and was shocked to see two spiders which...

I used to fear spiders. It got so bad that my mom decided to do something about it. Eventually she got me over my fear of spiders. She always tells me that she did too good of a job.

My first tarantula was a male named Boy George. Til...

Fortula is a character played by Nia Vardaros in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I love this actress and so used her characters name for my baby. Instar refers to the amount of times a tarantula has molted. The drive to own a tarantula hit...

I've been raising tarantulas and several other kinds of invertebrates, including centipedes, scorpions, millipedes, and others, in captivity for many years. My favourite tarantulas are in the genus Haplopelma but I like all tarantulas...

I love EVERYTHING blue, and when I found out about these, OMG I almost had a fit :)

I TOTALLY wanna get one :)

This guy showed me his tarantula and he was petting it and since I'm not a spider fanatic, I was like, yeah okay!!!  Not for me. 

I was scared of creepy spiders until about 5 years ago, I was 25 and watched a 5 year old hold a tarantula, This made me feel bad about myself. I then decided to get one and get over it. Rick (my husband) threw a fit, he did not think...

I first met tarantulas at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources program for children. When I took my kid to the Scales and Tails programs for the Junior Rangers a frequent guest might be a tarantula. And these "oh so scary...