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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndrewClayton" data-source="post: 241567" data-attributes="member: 28745">Sorry [USER=49683]@Eighth Eye Blind[/USER]  but there is no such thing as one of the lucky ones, you just haven't been keeping them long enough.I used to think the exact same, I had been keeping T's for around 10 years before I started getting affected by the setae.They eventually get everyone, and some are much worse than others, I won't keep Theraphosa again because of this and I have a female Nhandu Coloratovillosus just now and it will be the last of them I keep too.Doesn't help that I handle all my inverts so I am in contact with them quite a lot.</blockquote>