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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deemar" data-source="post: 43881" data-attributes="member: 2905">I handle based on the individual personality. Any time I go near the cages, remove tops or stick my hand in to remove something, the tarantulas hardly even move, they don't even hide. I can tell my particular spiders aren't bothered by human intervention so I handle them regularly when cleaning the tanks, I even let my Pink Toe ride around on me while I'm washing his cage.There was a short period where it was very dry here and all of my spiders were kicking hair because they were very stressed out and during this period I wouldn't go near them with my hands, I knew they would likely bite. Once that passed, I started handling again and it was fine.</blockquote>