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<blockquote data-quote="Grandsouls" data-source="post: 168252" data-attributes="member: 32091"><p>Well I was a massive reptile man for a while, so I know what you mean by addictive for sure haha.. </p><p></p><p>And that's bull****. I do agree G. Rosea's are really easy to deal with even when aggressive. I have a pink toe, although really quick and bolty, is not aggressive one bit though., FAR less intimidating then my G. Rosea.</p><p>But there are some, like my girl, if given the chance will try to slaughter you, shoot hairs and do everything and anything to make your life miserable as possible. After further research I found this can be pretty common with this species. </p><p>If I get within 5 inches of her she will quite literally jump and try to bite/ tag me ( Not sure of tagging is a term in tarantula realm but since you kept snakes you know what I am saying ) And for a beginner that could be pretty intimidating. I dealt with many snakes that have a 5 foot strike range and a 8 inch mouth length when open so for me its kinda cute lol.</p><p></p><p>But still.. Someone that has no experience with exotics and gets a rosea that jumps 5 inches to sink its fangs into you.....Yah not cool. </p><p></p><p>You can see the picture of first post, I quite literally dropped a worm for her ( She hardly ever eats) and she went straight to threat posture, I wasn't even in the cage I just dropped the worm. I took a photo, .2 seconds after the photo she was jumping at my phone. To get the worm out of there I had to tickle the corner of the cage to get her to charge to the other side of the cage so I could quickly snatch it out of there.</p><p></p><p>Regardless. Just like snakes (I assume from my experience at lease), It is not ALWAYS species dependent can be sweet hearts some can be evil ****s. There are lemons in all species just like humans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grandsouls, post: 168252, member: 32091"] Well I was a massive reptile man for a while, so I know what you mean by addictive for sure haha.. And that's bull****. I do agree G. Rosea's are really easy to deal with even when aggressive. I have a pink toe, although really quick and bolty, is not aggressive one bit though., FAR less intimidating then my G. Rosea. But there are some, like my girl, if given the chance will try to slaughter you, shoot hairs and do everything and anything to make your life miserable as possible. After further research I found this can be pretty common with this species. If I get within 5 inches of her she will quite literally jump and try to bite/ tag me ( Not sure of tagging is a term in tarantula realm but since you kept snakes you know what I am saying ) And for a beginner that could be pretty intimidating. I dealt with many snakes that have a 5 foot strike range and a 8 inch mouth length when open so for me its kinda cute lol. But still.. Someone that has no experience with exotics and gets a rosea that jumps 5 inches to sink its fangs into you.....Yah not cool. You can see the picture of first post, I quite literally dropped a worm for her ( She hardly ever eats) and she went straight to threat posture, I wasn't even in the cage I just dropped the worm. I took a photo, .2 seconds after the photo she was jumping at my phone. To get the worm out of there I had to tickle the corner of the cage to get her to charge to the other side of the cage so I could quickly snatch it out of there. Regardless. Just like snakes (I assume from my experience at lease), It is not ALWAYS species dependent can be sweet hearts some can be evil ****s. There are lemons in all species just like humans. [/QUOTE]
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