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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 221771" data-attributes="member: 29323">Selenocosmia crassipes, also known as the Queensland whistling spider, or the barking spider, as they can stridate, that is, make a hissing sound. I have a few cressipies & they are very simple to keep T. Sometimes when I take the lid off to give them water, or feed them, they are around, but they soon move for cover. And normally they are more than happy with partial cover. So you do get to see them & they are a gorgeous velvet brown colour.I would not describe my crassipes as either defensive or fast. They seem comfortable just walking for cover.  But from what I have read about them, their venom is potent, especially with dogs. With even large dogs dying quickly after a bite. They are a burrowing species, but far from a pet hole. They web everything in site & have moved the substrate in their enclosures into a mound in the middle & webbed everything from water bowl to the substrate, to the walls of the enclosure. I have 2 dachshunds & as I have seen a report of crassipes killing an Austrailian Shepherd dog within 20 minutes of a bite. I am very cautious with my crassipes as my Dachshunds are a fraction of the size of an Austrailian Shepherd. But I have never been given any reason to be cautious of them, beyond bite reports on dogs.</blockquote>