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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adraps11" data-source="post: 58909" data-attributes="member: 4220"><p>Hi, I thought it was about time I connected with other arachnid owners. I had a chilean Rosehair as my first tarantula and the two species couldn't be more different in their appetite levels! The Rosehair would go months and months without eating, and would frighten easily. This Texas brown will devour anything it can overpower, even though she's just 2.5 inches in legspan, she's taken down fully grown american Cockroaches and various non-toxic beetles. I've kept bugs and spiders since I was 5 years old. When I was ten, I had three pet Eastern Black Widows, and a black and yellow Agriope that I let make an orb web, in my room behind my television (much to my mother's surprise) She went in cleaning one day, and I was toast when I got home from school. As a defense mechanism the black and yellow agriope will vibrate it's web violently to throw off predators like birds, and in this case my mother. It never did that around me because I fed it. lol I haven't changed much. It's a passion, and always has been.</p></blockquote><p></p>