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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 58345" data-attributes="member: 4199">It's not nearly the largest but my son's GBB is quite docile and he handles it often.  I've only seen it flick hairs once, and that was at me this weekend.  I was cleaning it's water dish and it was crawling up the side of the enclosure to escape so i put a tupperware container we keep him in when we clean the enclosure to the edge and coaxed him over and in by gently touching his abdomen above the spinnerets with my fingernail.  Guess he didn't want to be rushed and flicked me a few times.  Luckily it was on my finger and just itched for a few minutes with a slight burn.Now anytime i get near his cage it's like he knows me lol  "oh it's that guy that touched my butt!  Flick him again!" I'm still a bit skittish around these T's and probably that won't change so I won't be handling any of my own.</blockquote>