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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quandry" data-source="post: 26655" data-attributes="member: 2592"><p>She's gorgeous! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Welcome to the forum and to the hobby. My husband (Foxface on here) was also very arachnophobic. He went through desensitization therapy, but he was still skittish around spiders. So when I got into an entomology graduate program, it was pretty much a given that he was going to have to learn to deal with spiders. I used some of the outreach tarantulas (very calm) to get him used to them. Then he decided it was time to let me get one. I picked out a curly hair, and I was looking at a second when he said he wanted a B. vagans spiderling. I figured if the formerly arachnophobic man wanted his own tarantula, he could get whatever kind he wanted. LOL! He's now thinking about what he wants for his second one. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>