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<blockquote data-quote="Edmund Hanna" data-source="post: 54880" data-attributes="member: 4159"><p>Hello,</p><p>I didn't have an interest in spiders before a year ago. If anything, I was just another arachnophobe... It all started with reading some stuff online and watching videos of spiders, because they're scary and deadly, right? right?</p><p></p><p>Well, I was terribly afraid of them. Would have kept my distance and tried to kill it with anything I could find back then. Luckily (for me and the spideys), big ones are a rare sight in Lebanon. But after learning that they're almost harmless, and as a Psychology student, I'd hoped I could find some one day, you could say it's as a form of exposure to my object of fear. Never seen one bigger than my nail, until I moved to this apartment two months ago...</p><p></p><p>But by then I'd already cleared most misconceptions about them, and was very eager to confront the first spider I found here. I was on my toes until I put a tupperware over it! It was a Huntsman Heteropoda. Since then all the hardcore research started. Two weeks later I let the spider go, after attempting to handle it, but was too anxious seeing how fast it was...</p><p></p><p>Not two days later I found a Chaetopelma Ovilaceum in my living room. I trapped it, and am keeping it as a pet now. It's quite pretty, but a little too eager to be defensive/aggressive.<img src="https://mmi243.whatsapp.net/d/hcfJWiwEpUCQypLNYgsRn1Y7q2E/AtXxjkrEnkyZ06CcJYEKgOi2yVDyzsXhjO-7-HGKSBDO.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>Some week later, I found a Heteropoda Variegata tangled in web.<img src="https://mmi421.whatsapp.net/d/KxdV01gf_mr9As2yWsRgOFYygdw/AtDXcjloFljNeqjZagHWBM4HUR2gXmdthlk7QkWXDALg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p>He lost a limb in it... :C</p><p></p><p>So, I helped him out, then put him back on the balcony (where I found him)...</p><p>Few days later, I woke up at 3 AM for a cup of water when I noticed he was on the side of my bed, just next to my head.</p><p>I'm very comfortable handling him now, though. I think I went a long way in this venture against Arachnophobia<img src="https://mmi445.whatsapp.net/d/KTM8EgZk8kb5h1JPgXQeHFZBBkw/AnxU9UHF4afeGPJ_bTMccqU4zTH0fhY2rlZFkI2F2ro2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>And that's about my story for now. It's a bit long, and being the only person in the country that is keeping a tarantula, I got a bit talkative here <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>What's your story?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Edmund Hanna, post: 54880, member: 4159"] Hello, I didn't have an interest in spiders before a year ago. If anything, I was just another arachnophobe... It all started with reading some stuff online and watching videos of spiders, because they're scary and deadly, right? right? Well, I was terribly afraid of them. Would have kept my distance and tried to kill it with anything I could find back then. Luckily (for me and the spideys), big ones are a rare sight in Lebanon. But after learning that they're almost harmless, and as a Psychology student, I'd hoped I could find some one day, you could say it's as a form of exposure to my object of fear. Never seen one bigger than my nail, until I moved to this apartment two months ago... But by then I'd already cleared most misconceptions about them, and was very eager to confront the first spider I found here. I was on my toes until I put a tupperware over it! It was a Huntsman Heteropoda. Since then all the hardcore research started. Two weeks later I let the spider go, after attempting to handle it, but was too anxious seeing how fast it was... Not two days later I found a Chaetopelma Ovilaceum in my living room. I trapped it, and am keeping it as a pet now. It's quite pretty, but a little too eager to be defensive/aggressive.[IMG]https://mmi243.whatsapp.net/d/hcfJWiwEpUCQypLNYgsRn1Y7q2E/AtXxjkrEnkyZ06CcJYEKgOi2yVDyzsXhjO-7-HGKSBDO.jpg[/IMG] Some week later, I found a Heteropoda Variegata tangled in web.[IMG]https://mmi421.whatsapp.net/d/KxdV01gf_mr9As2yWsRgOFYygdw/AtDXcjloFljNeqjZagHWBM4HUR2gXmdthlk7QkWXDALg.jpg[/IMG] He lost a limb in it... :C So, I helped him out, then put him back on the balcony (where I found him)... Few days later, I woke up at 3 AM for a cup of water when I noticed he was on the side of my bed, just next to my head. I'm very comfortable handling him now, though. I think I went a long way in this venture against Arachnophobia[IMG]https://mmi445.whatsapp.net/d/KTM8EgZk8kb5h1JPgXQeHFZBBkw/AnxU9UHF4afeGPJ_bTMccqU4zTH0fhY2rlZFkI2F2ro2.jpg[/IMG] And that's about my story for now. It's a bit long, and being the only person in the country that is keeping a tarantula, I got a bit talkative here :p What's your story? [/QUOTE]
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