Hello everyone.
I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. I am a 43 year old male living in Idaho in the northwest Rocky mountain region of the United States.
While I have always been creeped out by ordinary spiders, I have also found them fascinating and held a dim desire to perhaps one day get a pet tarantula. I finally did a little research online and decided to go with a supposedly very docile Mexican Red Knee as I wanted something that would likely not run too fast up my arm or bite me if I ever gain enough courage to try and hold it, lol.
No pet stores in my area had any of the Mexican Red Knee, so I finally decided to order one from a local reptile shop and decided to go with the mom&pop kinda reptile shop over some big national chain to help support them. They wanted $110 to order me a 2" Mexican Red Knee. I talked them down to $100 and got it in about a week later. I made this video a day or so after getting him to my home and putting him/her into his new 10 gallon terrarium I had set up.
Here is that video:
It took me a few days to come up with a name for him, but finally decided to go with "Soda" as that will work well if this spider turns out to be a male or female and Soda was the name of a nearby Oregon/Idaho open range fire that burned about 300,000 acres and smoked out this entire valley at the time I got my first new spider as a pet. ...Seemed like a fitting name. The red markings on the adult Mexican Red Knee and a wildfire are the same color and tarantulas seem like they could be wild and unpredictable just like our recent local Soda fire.
Anyhow, after a week, I decided to try feeding him a dubia roach that I have been breeding now for about two years to feed our bearded dragon. Even though I selected a pretty big dubia roach compared the my spider's size, I was pretty surprised at how hard that roach fought and how long it lasted. I have over 36 minutes of footage from Soda's first feeding from me here:
Anyhow, I hope you all enjoy the videos I have linked you to, and I plan on posting more videos in the future including when I first attempt to hold him (if ever) lol.
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated and a warm "hello" to everyone again!
I would love feedback on how much I "overpaid" for this Spider as well, hehe.
- Zaxx
I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. I am a 43 year old male living in Idaho in the northwest Rocky mountain region of the United States.
While I have always been creeped out by ordinary spiders, I have also found them fascinating and held a dim desire to perhaps one day get a pet tarantula. I finally did a little research online and decided to go with a supposedly very docile Mexican Red Knee as I wanted something that would likely not run too fast up my arm or bite me if I ever gain enough courage to try and hold it, lol.
No pet stores in my area had any of the Mexican Red Knee, so I finally decided to order one from a local reptile shop and decided to go with the mom&pop kinda reptile shop over some big national chain to help support them. They wanted $110 to order me a 2" Mexican Red Knee. I talked them down to $100 and got it in about a week later. I made this video a day or so after getting him to my home and putting him/her into his new 10 gallon terrarium I had set up.
Here is that video:
It took me a few days to come up with a name for him, but finally decided to go with "Soda" as that will work well if this spider turns out to be a male or female and Soda was the name of a nearby Oregon/Idaho open range fire that burned about 300,000 acres and smoked out this entire valley at the time I got my first new spider as a pet. ...Seemed like a fitting name. The red markings on the adult Mexican Red Knee and a wildfire are the same color and tarantulas seem like they could be wild and unpredictable just like our recent local Soda fire.
Anyhow, after a week, I decided to try feeding him a dubia roach that I have been breeding now for about two years to feed our bearded dragon. Even though I selected a pretty big dubia roach compared the my spider's size, I was pretty surprised at how hard that roach fought and how long it lasted. I have over 36 minutes of footage from Soda's first feeding from me here:
Anyhow, I hope you all enjoy the videos I have linked you to, and I plan on posting more videos in the future including when I first attempt to hold him (if ever) lol.
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated and a warm "hello" to everyone again!
I would love feedback on how much I "overpaid" for this Spider as well, hehe.
- Zaxx
