Sign up to get a free chapter of my tarantula guide![yikes-mailchimp form=”1″] There’s a lot we do not know about the tarantula and spiders, and one of those things is the mysteries about how they mother their young. To delve into this, I decided to round up some of the most interesting facts I’ve found about tarantulas and spiders, and […]

Sign up to get a free chapter of my tarantula guide![yikes-mailchimp form=”1″] If you’re a new tarantula owner, it’s absolutely normal to be freaked out and nervous the first time you see your tarantula flip over on its back and shed its exoskeleton – a completely normal and routine part of a tarantulas’ life cycle called molting. I think one […]

Sign up to get a free chapter of my tarantula guide![yikes-mailchimp form=”1″] Spidey, my chilean rose hair, was my first tarantula. I got her in 2013 and she won a big spot in my heart right away. But despite all the research I did, nothing could prepare me for how weird and challenging adjusting to her weird feeding quirks would […]

Sign up to get a free chapter of my tarantula guide![yikes-mailchimp form=”1″] If you’re a tarantula owner, I’m going to assume that one of the things you fret the most about is trying to make your tarantulas’ enclosures as beautiful, cozy, and exciting as possible for your spiders. From being in tarantula Facebook groups myself, I am constantly in awe […]

Sign up to get a free chapter of my tarantula guide![yikes-mailchimp form=”1″] If you’re a new tarantula owner, learning how to clean a tarantula cage might be incredibly stressful – at least it was for me the first time or two I did it! So I decided to make things easier for you by recording my process as well as […]

Sign up to get a free chapter of my tarantula guide![yikes-mailchimp form=”1″] One thing I often get asked about is what new tarantula owners should feed their new spiders. It’s also the most common question that I get asked by non-tarantula owners – the general public just LOVES to ask what tarantulas eat! First I’ll answer this in a basic […]

Sign up to get a free chapter of my tarantula guide![yikes-mailchimp form=”1″] Tarantula mating is a crazy thing. I’ve written about the strange courtship and actual step by step mating rituals here, however I want to talk a little bit more about the pre-mating behavior and migration routines of tarantulas in this post. We know that many animals migrate as […]

Sign up to get a free chapter of my tarantula guide![yikes-mailchimp form=”1″] Tarantula owners put A LOT of effort in their enclosures. Some will even custom build their tarantula tanks or create intricate bioactive enclosures, spending tons of time carefully designing and choosing decor. Tarantula owners take their pets’ homes to an entirely different level than other pet owners, so […]