Today I’m going to use my own personal experience to tell you about one of the worst things you can put in tarantula enclosures. I am going to be honest, when I first got into the tarantula keeping hobby I made a LOT of embarrassing mistakes. And mistakes are SO easy to make! Tarantulas are unlike so many of our […]

As the creator of several tarantula blogs and groups, I get asked some pretty interesting questions about tarantulas and spiders. One that came up quite recently was this: Do spider poop? Do they pee? That’s a REALLY great question – and one that many people wouldn’t know unless they’d had firsthand experience owning a tarantula or other arachnid. Unfortunately, very […]

How To Care For A Tarantula Sling Vs. An Adult Tarantula As some of you may have already heard, I recently acquired a new addition to my home – an Arizona Blonde (Aphonopelma chalcodes) tarantula sling named Blinky! It’s funny that I have two spiders that are quite the opposite now – Spidey, my Grammostola rosea, is well into her […]

As some of you may already know, I run a few different blogs, groups, and Facebook pages about tarantulas. One of the most common questions I get asked on these platforms are about the elusive appetite of the rose hair tarantula. I’ve had my grammostola rosea, Spidey, for several years and I have come to accept that this species of […]

Common name: Arizona Blonde, Desert Blonde Scientific name: Aphonopelma chalcodes Experience level: Beginner. They are certainly easy to care for and quite hardy. Appearance: Aphonopelma chalcodes tarantulas are known for their “blonde” hairs. The female is usually a uniform tan color. The males tend to have black legs, a copper-colored cephalothorax and a reddish abdomen. Origin: Southwestern states, especially Arizona, California, and […]

I got a really interesting question a few weeks ago on my tarantula blog – do spiders sleep? I actually did not know the answer! In fact, does anyone know?! I had to find out and do some research. Now, I will say that in my time with Spidey, I have seen her do some crazy stuff that LOOKS like […]

As you may know, I recently got Spidey a baby sister/brother and acquired a captive bred Arizona blonde (Aphonopelma chalcodes) sling from Ill Exotics! And now that I’m raising my first sling, I’m finally going to focus on a question I get a lot: How to feed a baby tarantula? From what I’ve been learning so far, there are some […]

The Legend of the Christmas Spider (a German legend) Many years ago, so long ago that nobody quite remembers exactly when it was, there stood in the middle of a thick forest in Germany a big, beautiful stone house. A family lived in the house, and everyone who visited fell in love with the place. The visitors included the children’s […]

*This piece was written and submitted by Madeline Colli* Tarantula fangs are a crucial piece of spider anatomy, but there are very often questions from beginners about whether or not tarantula fangs can be removed. While it may be a comforting hope for a wannabe tarantula owner or someone who is scared of spiders, the idea that a tarantula’s fangs […]