Absolutely hillarious. Stephen Colbert (one of my favorite comedians) had 3 Tarantulas on his body - 1 on his wrist (flicking hair like crap) 1 on his shoulder and 1 on his head! I think all 3 are Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (Grammostola rosea). Let's hope Tarantulas will get more popular, just like the politicians who appeared on the Colbert Report.

Watch it on Comedy Central. Skip to 4:20 onwards. :D

I was typing in a post that Ceratogyrus darlingi (African Back Horn Tarantula) is a burrowing specie - with her in a tank right next to me. I thought nothing was wrong.

Right the next routine handling, that same Ceratogyrus darlingi shot out of the tank screaming "What burrowing?!?!?! I'm arboreal!". She then ran towards the ceiling of my room. I had to step on the table to cup her and get her down. She kept on mumbling "I'm arboreal!" all the way back into the tank.

I aint typing anything about T with them near me anymore. They can read!

I just realized the 2 most beautiful of my T's - the GBB and the P. regalis are soooo posh! This is not another - my T is not eating food story! ^_^

GBB:
I tried feeding her with nymph/MM/MF dubia and she said no no no to all 3! This was her reaction:

• Drop the roach
  
• "Food!" Baam! [try to bite]
  
• "Yak! What is this crappy tasting food! You terrible owner!"
  
• Do a 180 and walk away slowly, leaving the roach pooping its pants.

And she is not fat at all - rather very thin. Today, I threw in a freshly molted male dubia. This was her reactions:

• Drop the roach
  
• "Food!" Baam! [try to bite]
  
• "Uhm! Tastes good! You are still a terrible owner!"
  
• Do a 180 and dance with the roach
  
• [after about 10 minutes] "Uhm! This thing dirties my toes!" Lick her toes like she is grooming.
  
• Resume eating

P. regalis:
There was a dubia that was in her enclosure since yesterday night. So I prod it out in a last-ditch effort to see if she was interested. This was her reactions:

• [the roach runs near]
  
• "Uhm! What is this?" [touch the roach]
  
• [the roach poops in its pants]
  
• "Eww! Leftover! Nah nah nah! You are a terrible owner!"
  
• [the roach poops in its pants again]
  

It's quite common for us to find it amusing for a T to try to take us on mano-a-mano. But how about a T trying to challenge a... fake leaf mano-a-leafo?

I was trying to take a feeding vid for my H. gigas so I got the camera ready and turned around to pick up a meal worm. I accidentally knocked the fake plant with the feeding tongs and my H. gigas seriously thought the fake leaf is a predator. So I knocked on the plant a few more times and it indeed thought the plant is a predator. Only after the 3rd times that it finally figured out that if you try to bite something 3 times and the thing doesn't move away, it is probably a plant.

I was unpacking the 2 H. gigas today. I saw one of the label saying "H. gigas aka LP eater" so I was like "Hey this is cool!". I read that they can be quite fast so I was very careful opening the deli cup in side the tank and carefully lure the T out. Below is the sequences:

• Poke poke.
• Blink
• Where is it? Oh on the side of the tank.
• Blink
• Crap! Where is it?
• Looking... Oh, on the carpet...
• Blink
• Crap!Grab the big deli cup.

I saw it scurrying into the underneath of my desk. So imagine a 180 pounds Asian man (btw, that's big for Asian) launching himself toward the T with arm outreached trying to cup the T.

And my head hit the desk.

The T was safe and I think I saw Master Jackie Chan laughing at me.

Something is wrong with pokies today!
I found poop in the my P. regalis water bowl. [Hate it when they do that] So I use the feeding tongs to grab some pieces of toilet paper to clean the water bowl - the usual method. I don't know why she teleported onto my hand.
She literally was hanging on the hand with her front 4 legs and the back 4 wriggling to grip on to something. I was so scared but was calm enough to put her back down and she teleported into the back of the tank. So I finished up the routine and closed the tank.
A few minutes later, I felt itchy on the side of my palm. Found 2 red dots and the area is a bit swollen. I think she "kissed" me while hanging and trying to hold on to something. Don't think it's a bite. Pokie bites are supposed to be very bad and this one doesn't even hurt, just itchy. And if it were a real bite, the 2 holes would be wider and deeper. This is a 6" pokie we are talking about.
So I'm convinced my pokie loves me so much, she gave me a kiss! ^_^

Notice the left hole is deeper than the right hole? I think it suits the way the T was hanging on to my hand.




Update: a day later, the left hole showed more damage but no pain.