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Message: <blockquote data-quote="loe-kee" data-source="post: 26710" data-attributes="member: 2921">Hello,Im new to the Tarantula hobby.  I was looking to purchase a few simple ones to begin with, I hear they are addicting.At my local reptile shop they have a wide variety of tarantulas I was looking at the Female G. rosea and baby C. cyaneopubescens.I like the rosea because it is already big and the cyaneopubescens I liked because of the color it turns into.The guy working there showed me a cool baby G. pulchra, that one was a little out of my price range though.I know tarantulas are supposed to be specimens with more looking and less touching, but how do the two mentioned above do with occasional handling?I have a few ideas about enclosures in mind but had a few questions about them.When making holes for ventilation how do I know how big/small to make them?What is the recommended depth of substrate for the species mentioned above?Thanks for any help</blockquote>