Moving on from beginner species?

[Tnoob]

The hardest part of keeping any spider is when they don't eat.

 

[Avicularia Kael]

I started with a curly sling. I then got a Avic avic at a monthly reptile show. At the next show I got a Ceratogyrus darlingi, which I would recommend as a starter old world. She can be very skittish and defensive but she is calmer than some other old worlds. After I got her, I got an adult curly (the sling died). Then a Chilobrachys huahini juvenile. My avic died so I got a new one.

 

[martiannova]

Its all fun and games until an obt is racing in circles in your bathtub, nascar style, gaining centripital force and getting closer and closer to the top..
Good times! Anyone seen any big females for sale anywhere?

How is this simultaneously the funniest and most terrifying thing Ive ever read?

 

[Tnoob]

How is this simultaneously the funniest and most terrifying thing Ive ever read?

Because an obt will **** your **** up.

 

[smallbike]

Psalmopoeus irminia is my favorite to recommend to people that want to work their way up to a ornamental. View attachment 38469 View attachment 38470 View attachment 38471

Wow, what a pretty spider!

I doubt I'll ever get into old world spiders - I really have very little interest in keeping something that could send me to the hospital. But man, some of them are truly beautiful creatures.

 

[spodermin]

Wow, what a pretty spider!

I doubt I'll ever get into old world spiders - I really have very little interest in keeping something that could send me to the hospital. But man, some of them are truly beautiful creatures.

A dog could send you to the hospital

 

[smallbike]

A dog could send you to the hospital

I actually had a story about my cat sending me to the hospital, but deleted it because I figured it was a bit of a tangent.

 

[martiannova]

I have a heart condition, so I may hold off on OW for now until I’m more experienced. I didn’t realize their venom was so potent !!

 

[spodermin]

I have a heart condition, so I may hold off on OW for now until I’m more experienced. I didn’t realize their venom was so potent !!

Heart condition is an exception, although there are still more dangerous things in life. When you feel you're ready and want to enough to endure the risk, do it. Old worlds are seriously half the fun of owning T's imo.

New worlds still have some honorable mentions tho, namely the giants like Theraphosa and Lasiodora or the classics like Brachypelma and Grammostola

If you can raise a Phormictopus from sling to adult you're more than ready for old world. That is a great litmus test

 

[Avicularia Kael]

Wow, what a pretty spider!

I doubt I'll ever get into old world spiders - I really have very little interest in keeping something that could send me to the hospital. But man, some of them are truly beautiful creatures.

P. irminia are new world. They just act like old worlds.

 

[nedaK]

I actually had a story about my cat sending me to the hospital, but deleted it because I figured it was a bit of a tangent.

Is your cat a fricken tiger!?

 

[smallbike]

Is your cat a fricken tiger!?

He was a big orange cat, so kinda

He and his nemesis were trying to fight through a sliding glass door, and they woke me up yowling and hissing. In my half asleep state I thought it was a good idea to move my cat away from the door, and he went bobcat-wild on me. No stitches, just an extremely painful “irrigation” of the wound which filled my hand with water like a balloon in the ER. He was normally a super sweet cat, and he knew he messed up - he didn’t even beg for food for almost a month!

Another time I ended up in the ER from a pet was in middle school when we took in a stray dog (it was snowing) and it attacked my normally badass MF cat (a cow cat named Onion, lol). She jumped on my head to get away, and the dog grabbed her by the tail, causing her to dig her claws into my scalp, hanging on for dear life. I got the dog off of us, she jumped straight from my head to the curtains, and I threw the dog out the front door like he was getting kicked out of a bar. That one was 3 stitches in my scalp, but the cat lived til I was in grad school, so I’d say it was worth it.