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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DalilahBlue" data-source="post: 8379" data-attributes="member: 375">He's behaving so far.  It's that dang M. robustum that I am worried about.  Although I think it was just stress.  She's not done anything crazy since the initial rehoming.  Going to be watching these arboreal guys closely.  Speedy little things. I have always loved all critters, especially inverts.  My mother was terrified of spiders, so I only kept things like Mantids and Stickbugs til college when a friend had me watch his Rosie for almost a year.  I loved her.  Fast forward nearly a decade and out of the blue my hubby suggests we get something like a tarantula or such as, with my biologist background, I love observing the critters we find while hiking.  Four months later we are up to 13 tarantulas.  And since he hates the number 13 I must soon acquire at least one more. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>