It has been decided. Thou shalt adhere

[spodermin]

OBT now officially means "Orange bolty thing" says me.

I just chased an OBT around my kitchen for 10 or 15 minutes and didn't get a threat posture once, just bolt, bolt, bolt. Frantic, leg flailing orange bolty thing!

 

[Enn49]

They're certainly fast

 

[Tortoise Tom]

So that we all may learn, what mistake of yours led to this 15 minute game of chase the spider around the kitchen? Were you working in a tall sided tub? Re-homing? Just opening the enclosure for feeding and maintenance?

 

[Tnoob]

I'm suggesting that you roll up a towel, put it under the door, and smoke your bowl in the bathroom. I mean, change your substrate in the tub...

 

[Arachnoclown]

I find working obts on carpet...not the bathtub is best. They cant run fast on the Carpet , their hooks slow them down. Sounds like velcro when they run.

 

[GermanGamer7]

Orange Bitey Bolty Angery Things
OBBATs

 

[Tnoob]

I find working obts on carpet...not the bathtub is best. They cant run fast on the Carpet , their hooks slow them down. Sounds like velcro when they run.

That's something I gotta see.

 

[GermanGamer7]

I can only imagine as they run it just sounding like this
rrrriiiipppp

 

[Arachnoclown]

Pokies too...I do all my pokie rehousing on the carpet. They are much slower.

 

[spodermin]

Pokies too...I do all my pokie rehousing on the carpet. They are much slower.

Very interesting. I don't have carpet in my apartment to test but it makes sense.

@Tnoob your comment has me 100% dead bro

 

[GermanGamer7]

RIP @spodermin 1997-2019

 

[Tnoob]

Very interesting. I don't have carpet in my apartment to test but it makes sense.

@Tnoob your comment has me 100% dead bro

I sometimes have a sense of humour.

 

[GermanGamer7]

Pokies too...I do all my pokie rehousing on the carpet. They are much slower.

What is a pokie

 

[Enn49]

What is a pokie

It's a Poecilotheria

 

[GermanGamer7]

*cuteness flashbacks to when I searched up what they looked like and nearly died*

 

[spodermin]

*cuteness flashbacks to when I searched up what they looked like and nearly died*

This is a pokie

 

[Tnoob]

This is a pokie

Ornamental, correct?

 

[spodermin]

Ornamental, correct?

Hanumavilasumica

 

[GermanGamer7]

This is a pokie

*Dies*

 

[spodermin]

So that we all may learn, what mistake of yours led to this 15 minute game of chase the spider around the kitchen? Were you working in a tall sided tub? Re-homing? Just opening the enclosure for feeding and maintenance?

When I read this comment I got fixated on the "what mistake of yours" rather than the "so we all may learn" so I didn't reply, but to answer your question: I don't go overboard with precautions in most cases because I am familiar with the movements of spiders and their temprements, behaviours, etc. but I was just rehousing it. I am also hyperbolizing in the original post, it did try to bolt once but that's why we have catch cups. It was more or less just hard having it stay in the enclosure long enough to put the lid on. Here's what I mean lmao

Most spiders won't just randomly bolt out of their enclosures in my experience. I take the lid completely off to feed any one of my spiders and have never had one bolt. They feel safe in that space, they usually only go into bolty panic mode when you are rehousing them or prodding at them/disturbing them excessively.