Are you a Tarantula hobbyist? If so, we invite you to join our community! Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your pets and enclosures and chat with other Tarantula enthusiasts. Sign up today!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arachnoclown" data-source="post: 191493" data-attributes="member: 27444">I have become extremely sensitive to their urticating Bristols over the years. Breeding these beasts probably doesn't help either. Honestly if you have sensitive skin already your probably making a bad decision if not already done so. With geneticulata your going to find out is horrible in the near future. I find that just feeding and watering mine i break out.  Adding another extremely horrible bristle flicker (apophysis) is going to be a challenge for you. Theraphosa distribute the urticating hairs around their environment. Not because they were bothered, to ward off all intruders.  Little to  any breeze or movement kicks them up off the floor of the enclosure. Theres nothing you can do to catch all the urticating hairs. Lots of vacuuming with a good filter will help outside the enclosure but I find that the vacuum causes them to flick more while I'm using it. Gloves help but its just above the gloves that seam I always break out at. Wearing long sleeve shirts dont really work...either they travel through it or I get contaminated  somewhere else removing them afterwards. My wife has also got haired just doing the laundry. Your sniffing dogs/cats are susceptible to taking them in the nose or face. I try to keep my dogs away from them as much as possible...especially if I see them sniffing around. Plan on itching for up to a week after contact with the bristles. I try to spray down the enclosure to keep the hairs down but I think it doesn't really work too well since tarantulas are pretty much waterproof. Many people with sensitive skin end up getting rid of there Theraphosa after a while. Not trying to detour you just letting you know that the hairs are no joke. Ive been keeping Theraphosa since 1982.[ATTACH=full]54708[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

Verification