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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lorienita" data-source="post: 219339" data-attributes="member: 39357">I don’t know if I am particularly qualified to answer this question, as I also am a first time tarantula owner and purchased D.diamantinensis.  I do have a unique perspective I suppose. I am not a first-time spider owner. I have several sub-adult jumping spiders. I don’t know that I would have felt comfortable getting the tarantula if I had not already handled and gotten comfortable handling the jumpers. (I don’t plan on handling the T.) I shrieked and jerked the first few times they jumped while I was handling them. It definitely took me a little before I could control my reaction.   The lack of jumper content on YouTube led me to tarantula collective and tarantula kat and tarantulas became my latest obsession.  I did a ton of research on New World species narrowing down to what I wanted. Because I have cats and live in a studio apartment, it was important to me to not have an aggressive species or one that regularly kicks hairs. I also wanted a pretty baby and one that would stay fairly small but not teensy.So far, and I have only had the D.d. sling for a month, I have a few observations. However small you think the sling will be, it is smaller than you could have imagined. That scares me more than the speed. But the speeeeed. So far it has lived only in the cholla branch I have in the enclosure. I have a very expensive pet branch. And will until it grows out of it. It had its legs poking out of the top and at first I thought it was a shed, I nudged it with a tweezer and that lil nugget moved so fast I shrieked and jumped. That’s the danger, is doing that and hurting it. Otherwise, opening its enclosure inside of a large lidded tub with a catch cup handy in case of escape is a good way to buy yourself reaction time. So far I don’t regret getting it, but I wish I would have gotten a much larger closer to 1” sling. Mine is closer to 1/2”. They are spindly and so tiny. I’m terrified of crushing it. Other than that it’s an excellent pet log.</blockquote>

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