My Pet Tarantulas

My cobalt blue spider decided to come out of her burrow today so I was able to get a few shots of her.

I took a couple shots of her with the flash.

Very cobalt blue looking.

In normal light she looks more purple and gray.

My other tarantula was also out climbing around on the glass of her enclosure. You can really see her fangs here.

Here is a skeleton knee tarantula that I saw at the pet store while buying crickets for my two tarantulas at home. These extra hairy tarantulas can be trained to be handled because they use their hairs to detect what is prey and what is food so they don't bite you. Back home I can handle my Chilean Rose Hair but not my Cobalt Blue because the Cobalt has shorter hairs. She will bite anything that gets near her lol.

Here is another tarantula at the pet store. I think this is also a Chilean Rose with more of a red variation compared to mine. Tarantula breeders actually can create unique color variations but it is a tricky process because the females often eat the males, so if you have a nicely colored male and female there is a chance they will kill each other and you will need to wait until a different batch of spiderlings grow up to repeat the process again.

Here is an Arizona Blonde tarantula. As these are so hairy they are also able to be trained for handling. I actually grew up in Arizona and used to catch these guys after the monsoon rains would flood them out of their burrows. Now over here they are for sale for a good $60.

I used to also see these giant desert scorpions aka Hadrurus arizonensis in Arizona all the time. In college I even had an apartment infested with them lol. Now here in the pet store you can get them for $15, if only back then I had known I could sell them for $15 a piece I would have been able to pay for a few classes in college.

Here is a usual sight at pet stores the emperor scorpion. These are huge land lobster looking scorpions and they are generally pretty docile and their poison is weak. They usually just take down their prey with their claws. One of these days I might get one to keep company with my fat whip scorpion Carl the Vinegaroon.

Carl the vinegaroon is pretty shy. He just ate a ton of crickets and is super fat. These guys were also common in Arizona and I had to plunk down $20 bucks for him over here lol. You can handle these guys but they do sometimes squirt you with acetic acid (vinegar) to deter you from handling them. Carl is used to being handled and never sprays. In general these spider and scorpion pets are very easy to keep and like to just sit in their burrows conserving energy. They only need to be fed around twice a month and spray misted with water once a week. Super easy pets.