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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 132232" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>Nice tarantulas! </p><p>While I think it's good that your confidence is growing using tongs is a good habit to develop, I nag my wife about this all the time. It's all too easy to fall into the trap of using your fingers to move or grab things in an enclosure if you haven't developed the habit of using tongs.</p><p>Two examples, the very first tarantula sling I unpacked leaped out of the vial like a jack in a box onto my thumb as soon as I opened the lid. I doubt it was aggressive, but it freaked me out and I dropped/threw the vial instinctively. </p><p>A more relevant example perhaps is that I was wondering if the surface of the substrate was dry in an enclosure. I hadn't seen the spider for days and it wasn't visible in it's burrow so I almost poked the substrate with my finger but stopped myself and used a metal chopstick I keep as part of my invert keeping kit that was nearby. As soon as I poked the substrate the spider jumped "out of nowhere" and attacked the poker! If I hadn't kept scorpions for years and developed the habit of using implements I would have been bitten. I wish my wife had of seen it, she's very lax in that respect because she's always handled spiders around the house and has no fear of them at all.</p><p>I don't want to alarm you, but it is easy to think you'll just use your fingers and using tongs etc is a hard habit to develop, the more you use them the more it becomes instinctive to reach for them, I think it's wise to train yourself to use them in all situations. </p><p>Maybe I'm just paranoid but that's my take on things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Jay, post: 132232, member: 27677"] Nice tarantulas! While I think it's good that your confidence is growing using tongs is a good habit to develop, I nag my wife about this all the time. It's all too easy to fall into the trap of using your fingers to move or grab things in an enclosure if you haven't developed the habit of using tongs. Two examples, the very first tarantula sling I unpacked leaped out of the vial like a jack in a box onto my thumb as soon as I opened the lid. I doubt it was aggressive, but it freaked me out and I dropped/threw the vial instinctively. A more relevant example perhaps is that I was wondering if the surface of the substrate was dry in an enclosure. I hadn't seen the spider for days and it wasn't visible in it's burrow so I almost poked the substrate with my finger but stopped myself and used a metal chopstick I keep as part of my invert keeping kit that was nearby. As soon as I poked the substrate the spider jumped "out of nowhere" and attacked the poker! If I hadn't kept scorpions for years and developed the habit of using implements I would have been bitten. I wish my wife had of seen it, she's very lax in that respect because she's always handled spiders around the house and has no fear of them at all. I don't want to alarm you, but it is easy to think you'll just use your fingers and using tongs etc is a hard habit to develop, the more you use them the more it becomes instinctive to reach for them, I think it's wise to train yourself to use them in all situations. Maybe I'm just paranoid but that's my take on things. [/QUOTE]
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