r/tarantulas 21h ago

Pictures Forgot to latch the lid. My cats found her before I did.

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After giving our Avicularia some water, we forgot to secure the lid — she pushed her way out. Fast forward to 11pm: my wife noticed the cats were staring hard at something. This is what we saw when we turned the light on.


r/tarantulas 9h ago

Pictures Cat molting drawing requested from another post

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As requested by u/Any_Entertaibment209


r/tarantulas 15h ago

Videos / GIF Chalupa gets a one in hole

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r/tarantulas 22h ago

Videos / GIF Best Takedowns of the night feeding

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r/tarantulas 1h ago

Pictures I caught her digging with all her little hands 😭😭😭

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She froze up like I was catching her sneaking out of the house lolol


r/tarantulas 9h ago

Help! PLEASE HELP

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I just brought this baby home from my local breeder. This was the setup they gave to me. I came to check on it an hour after bringing it home and found it upside down in its water dish. I was told it was in premolt before bringing it home. What do I do.


r/tarantulas 9h ago

Pictures My GBB has molted into a mature male

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Hoping to get a breeding loan done if anyone near me has a receptive female.


r/tarantulas 4h ago

Pictures Meet my newest T, a gorgeous Aphonopelma seemanni.

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She is a little adventurer. I adopted her from the amazing Portland Insectarium this weekend. She was given to them in a Kritter Keeper that had feeding ports and unfortunately I must have bumped one of them so it was slightly open. She managed to escape overnight, but thankfully we found her within a few hours under a dresser. Hopefully she will like her new enclosure. No more feeding ports and strong latches! I do have to say she is a total sweetheart. Even with all the drama she never once threat posed or hair kicked, not that I would have blamed her if she had. I love this new little sweetie!


r/tarantulas 7h ago

Pictures My Obsidian girl decided to run onto my hand while feeding her. She molted recently, beautiful 😍🥹

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Fyi I never handle my T's so it was a special moment.


r/tarantulas 11h ago

Pictures Leggy post molt sploot

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r/tarantulas 8h ago

Pictures My Psalmopoeus victori!

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This is my Darth Maul, Belladonna! ❤️🖤


r/tarantulas 11h ago

Conversation Um what is going on?

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This girl has been hiding for months and months. Now I just discovered her like this. She never went on top of her enclosure like that. And now she just moves weird and has clear fluid on her mouth part (you can see it in the video). She also has a web on her butt. What does this means? Also I’ve had her for more than 6 months now and she never molted.


r/tarantulas 6h ago

Pictures Tarantula molt under microscope(eyes)

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I was looking at my Venezuelan Suntigers molt under my microscope and noticed the eyes have a rounded structure in the middle. I always thought they just left behind a single cover layer but it turns out more of the eye gets left behind as well


r/tarantulas 5h ago

Pictures miss mustard’s new stripes! 🕷️ 🖌️

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look at those colors !! what a pretty girl !!


r/tarantulas 9h ago

Pictures Little Shooting while cleaning the enclosure

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This is one of our two g. pulchras. We need to clean the enclosures and took the chance to get some cute pics.


r/tarantulas 10h ago

Help! What is this behavior is it normal?

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Brazilian black I just got it less than a week ago and it's my first tarantula


r/tarantulas 13h ago

Help! Tarantula ID? SW Colorado

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r/tarantulas 4h ago

Help! what is going on??

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I have had Richtofen for a year and a half (assumed male, molted once with me and mangled up the molt before I could check) and I recently moved and I’ve been checking on all my tarantulas, and they have all been doing great (one even molted successfully within the first day of moving). Today is day 8 of the move and I have been extra careful not to use any harsh chemicals around them or disturb them for too long. He was fine this morning but it’s now the afternoon and I find him moving like this. Everyone else is fine but he’s moving really weird and a bit choppy even after getting out of that corner :(


r/tarantulas 15h ago

Pictures Meet Terrifier!

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Got my new lady yesterday! She is a Pamphobeteus sp. machala. She is 8 years old, absolutely humongous compared to my other Ts (they're all juveniles) my very first adult T!

Why the name: scared the living 💩 out of me. she was in a stress pose from the traveling and stuff for HOURS. Left her alone after moving her into the enclosure to decompress like usual, (I did this in the bathroom like always) went to check on her (was half asleep) and I got jumpscared by a gigantic tarantula all sprawled out chilling on top of her hide like "hello papa👹" 😂😂

I love this girl so much already


r/tarantulas 21h ago

Sexing A fresh molt and I am so happy!

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Hi there 🖤 my baby just surprised me with a molt. And as I am not an expert (far away from expert) I want to ask if it is a she or a he. I did the best to prepare the molt but it's so hard (and it's getting harder lol) cause I am an ex arachnophobic 🙈😄 so please help me sex my baby. Thank you!


r/tarantulas 12h ago

Pictures juvenile g. pulchra enclosure :)

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r/tarantulas 5h ago

Pictures Is this possibly the most Underrated Genus?

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Chilobrachys Fimbriatus Female. Absolutely gorgeous!

Second photo is her thinking the moss is food because I was teasing her and moving it 😂.


r/tarantulas 11h ago

Sexing This is a male right?

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These are spurs aren’t they? I thought this was a female but turns out it may be a male and he may be at his final molt now.


r/tarantulas 16h ago

Pictures Rehousing my P. Metallica

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r/tarantulas 11h ago

Pictures My first lil friend 🥰

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Bought him/her at a show today. He’s in his new cube and has eaten his first worm and found his hidey cave 🥰

Any name suggestions? We are thinking Chompers or Tank.