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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 162345" data-attributes="member: 29323">I have never been afraid of spiders. But a UK household spider did bite me when I was a teenager & I will not now handle household spiders, as that bitr hurt.  Had this guy in the video been using his hands, rather than the tweezers, it would have made sense to wear glove, or at least a glove. But why keep old worlds if you are so afraid of them you cannot care for them without feeling real fear? There is a big difference between not wanting to be bitten, which is most of us, I would imagine & someone who has so much fear of his T that he cannot care for it without feeling so much fear he needs thick gloves & long tweezers. My daughter hated it when we got our first T. She even threatened to never come into the living room again. Now she has her own Tliltocatl vegans & often checks round our other T's & changes water etc Out T's are mostly new world, but we do have some OW's too.</blockquote>