"Go? I think not. My sons and daughters do not harm Hagrid on my command. But I cannot deny them fresh meat that wanders so willingly into our midst. Goodbye, friend of Hagrid" - Aragog, king of the arachnids.
@@kaanarslan9270 yep. We had a communal of metallicas but we have separated it. You can see them in this video at about 8 minutes in 🙂 th-cam.com/video/V83OAkz4NCI/w-d-xo.html
Wow so many beautiful colored tarantulas with the blues and then that gorgeous red one. You've have a wonderful collection of spiders. Thanks for the feeding show....
Awesome video Ian, you just made me add another T to my never ending want list. The Sabah Blue is absolutely stunning. And it’s always nice to see an update on that fantastic Balfouri communal. Thanks for sharing 😊
Very impressive. Just started watching tarantula videos and am considering starting a setup. I love the way your enclosure looks with all the webs. Your exotic tarantulas look really pretty too
Never seen anything like this before. Stunning set up and spiders. I am not a fan of spiders but i like to watch the takedowns. Liked and subbed. Want to see more.
Thanks to everyone who has so far watched, liked and subscribed. Once I hit 1000 subscribers it will enable me to live stream again amd when that happens we will do a special live feeding of this amazing communal. So please subscribe if you would love to see that happen 🙂
@@vincesimon1284 I personally wouldn't recommend it. Maybe add mature males to introduce new bloodlines but that would be about it. My personal communal I have has 5 and I also have a sling but I will keep that one separate to my communal.
Question 💭❓if there is left over dead crickets in the tank. Do you clean them out? Or if not will they cause any problems like magets, or mites, or bad smell? Thanks for your time ⏰
There isn't a massive amount of data researched on these. They come from Socotra Island in Yemen and it is quite remote. But where there have been sightings, there has been webbing like in the enclosure suggesting that they do live together in the wild. I would be my ultimate dream to go out and study them in their natural habitat. Maybe one day 🤞
How many tarantulas are in this enclosure . IT's very interesting with these communal enclosure, i want to have this too but i don't know how many t's i can handle in it . Now i have 7 tarantulas, 4 of These are adult but not for communal .
Thank you. Yes a P. metallica communal is one of my upcoming projects. My female has just moulted and I had 2 sud adult males so waiting for one of them to mature 🙂
They say that in the animal kingdom one of the first great steps in an animal's evolution is societal standards. (Humans having some of the most followed by ants and whales and etc) Makes me wonder just how smart these little devils really are.
Hey just wondering I tried a communal and first 2 days I lost 1 of 4 and I can't tell how many are left . At least one . If there are more they are in the ground
Despite how much I’ve loved spiders and have been fascinated by their existence for years to the point of researching them constantly.. I’m genuinely amazed that I never learned that sometimes spiders will live in colonies and form a “Social Spider” group. But now that I know this, I’m even more amazed at how intelligent and fascinating these 8 legged creatures can be.
swtg spiders are the biggest fuck you to anything alive and humans love it or hate it XD theres an reason we instinctually fear the fuckers and either learn to not fear them or we are less genetically scared of them
@@riderfkc2835 I have seen no aggression from them. I have seen a couple of little scuffles over food before. It is quite incredible. There does seem a bit of a hierarchy in the colony. I have seen one walk by and kind of tap another with its legs and it has moved out of its way. There is still soo much to learn from these guys.
@@NORTHERNEXOTICS that is an interesting question and one we hope to answer in the future. There is currently only 1 generation in there currently and the females are only just coming upto maturity. We can confirm that the mothers are very maternal and will share her food with her offspring.
Thanks for watching. It is amazing how many people I speak to who have started to keep tarantulas to try and help cure theor arachnophobia. These are one of a few unique species that can be kept together. It is still unknown why. But maybe something that has been imprinted on them for many generations. Their natural habitat is a very small island and maybe they jave learnt to live together in a group rather than in solitary burrows. More research needs to be done but due to their rarity in the wild, it is very difficult.
Hi, i just recently started getting interested in communal T's And hv a question. Did you just let the egg sac be and left the young's inside the enclosure? If so wont there be a risk of overpopulation or is there a way to control it?
It is a good question. This was all from the same sac and rehoused them into this enclosure in about March this year. They have been digging out the enclosure over the last 9 months and there are a number of tunnels. So space is aplenty. We are debating reducing the number down to about 30 but still deciding what to do with it. As they were all sac mates the chances of them breeding is fairly slim (although not impossible) once we find a mature male we remove them (we have taken about 10 out so far) One thing we would like to study is breeding behaviours in communals. But where this is the 1st generation, we haven't got that far yet. One for the future 🙂
@@IanTarrantula If I get balfouris from the same sac, that are of opposite sex, is it unlikely that they will mate? I'm looking to have a communal of just two, but I don't want to have babies if I happen to get two of the opposite sex. I have heard the males mature, and die, much faster than females, so the male might be gone by the time the female is mature.
My first spider was a GBB. I only have the 1 but man I love these spiders and love the fact that they can be kept communally only makes them cooler. How often do you change the enclosure? When you do change it is it just a lot of catch-cups and time getting all the animas out safely?
I wanna start one of these. Then put cool movie references in their tank. First 2 I can think of is Frodo & Sam. & A guy on a dirt bike like the end of “Eight Legged Freaks”
A really good friend of mine has three and if possible I will stand there for hours and watch them. I mean I could throw a whatever size tv out the window and sit a couch in front of something like that.
They are called Monocentropus balfouri. Common name is Socotra Island blue leg baboon tarantula. Yes these are one of very few that can live together peacefully. Pretty cool 🙂
I would love to have an M. Balfouri communal, but alas I only have a singular A.Seemani. I don’t belive I have the experience to do so. Rehousing could be a nightmare for me.
The idea of a communal enclosure is so interesting to me! I am very impressed with your set up. Have you lost some tarantulas with this type of set up? Just curious.
I know. It was only a few years ago I thought exactly that! To be honest, we are not sure. When we housed them there were 65. I would like to think that there are 65 still in there but it would be impossible to tell without getting them all out and doing a head count.
Hi Ian Great "but extremely squirmy" video. I love this type of video. I watched a clip a while ago and it showed a keeper collecting Balfour for a communal box counted them and individually boxed them. I could be wrong but I think he got passed 20 in the total amount, I cannot find it anywhere does it ring any bells with you? Was it you? Thanks again xxxx
I love what your doing and your footage of your amazing communal!! One question?? How do you clean out all of the bolus's and old molts to prevent a mold problem?
Thank you. They do tend to have a bit of a clean up every now and then. They throw old moulta out and tend to have a small area where waste is dumped. It is actually really fascinating.
so much crickets? arent they danger in this amount? cricket can bite tarantulas and small reptails to death during night.... feel free to correct me if im wrong, im not expert
Most of the time you are correct. But there are a very small amount that can be kept communally. These guy being the best communal tarantulas in the hobby. They will share food.
Nice video: you ever think of feeding them a big locusts or horn worm so you don't have to do multiple little hoppers,,? Just curious no critic at all.
Thanks. I think it is easier to use crickets for these. Because ofnthe amount that is in there and the amount of other tarantulas Graeme has, crickets are the best option for him. We have used dubias before but where they play dead, they don't atteact the balfouris attention easily.
@@IanTarrantula oh I understand that completely, between them playing dead and burrowing under its hard for the T's to find them. Makes total sense and its cool seeing them gather all of them up.
This enclosure and webbing reminds me so much of that one scene in Hobbit
It reminds me of that scene from King Kong when the photographers fall in that cavern full fo bugs
It reminds me of harry potter spider scene.
I was also thinking Harry Potter chamber of secrets too Aaragog if you know you know 😆
@@chillout8320 same exact scene I was thinking of too
"Go? I think not. My sons and daughters do not harm Hagrid on my command. But I cannot deny them fresh meat that wanders so willingly into our midst. Goodbye, friend of Hagrid"
- Aragog, king of the arachnids.
Never thought tarantulas could live communally. Thanks for the video!
The other crickets would be like...
“NOBODY FUCKING MOVES”
Right it's like they are in squid games red light green light lol
Communal tarantulas, that's a new one for me!.
So interesting seeing their giant hive with entrances etc.
what's the name of the specie?.
Yeah they are really cool. The scientific name is Monocentropus balfouri. They are commonly known as Socotra Island Blue leg baboon tarantulas.
They’re not the only tarantulas known to be kept in communals. Poecilotheria Metallica for example.
@@kaanarslan9270 yep. We had a communal of metallicas but we have separated it. You can see them in this video at about 8 minutes in 🙂 th-cam.com/video/V83OAkz4NCI/w-d-xo.html
Ian Tarrantula can metallic pink toes stay together
@@chillout8320 sorry I didn't see this sooner. I don't believe Avicularia are communal.
Wow so many beautiful colored tarantulas with the blues and then that gorgeous red one. You've have a wonderful collection of spiders. Thanks for the feeding show....
How did I not know this channel existed before now!? At least I have some more videos to binge watch and keep me up at night!
Haha. Thanks for watching
Ah! A tarantula channel that I've never seen before?! Subbed!
Edit: loved your communal! Nicely done
Thank you! 🙂
Love your communal, it looks epic, fantastic feeding session with them! Great news on the egg sac, what an amazing mama T she is 💜
Fingers crossed it is a good sac 🤞🤞🤞
Song of mirrors... what a beautiful track to add to this vid. These Balfouris are so gorgeous, wish I had this setup. Great vid, bud!
Great video. Balfouri communal looks awesome.
Awesome video Ian, you just made me add another T to my never ending want list. The Sabah Blue is absolutely stunning.
And it’s always nice to see an update on that fantastic Balfouri communal.
Thanks for sharing 😊
Hehe Sowwy 😁😁😁 my list is probably just as long hehe.
That’s a beautiful Balfouri community 🥰 Still on my list to get 🤣
Great take downs! Your Versicolor is sooo cute 😊
Thanks 😊 yep they are stunning
That’s really nice video! I love being able to see a really clear view of the tarantulas. And there are a bunch of them 😯!
Very impressive. Just started watching tarantula videos and am considering starting a setup. I love the way your enclosure looks with all the webs. Your exotic tarantulas look really pretty too
Thank you. It is really something special
There is a website I found that sells exotic Ts from all over the world
Amazing video dude! And looks like it was an amazing success too! Check out your growth and views! Proud of you my man!
Thanks buddy. Absolutely blown away by this 🙂
Ive never seen a type of Tarantula that lives in social numbers until now.
😱😵🌋🌋🌋
Now I've seen EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
Never seen anything like this before. Stunning set up and spiders. I am not a fan of spiders but i like to watch the takedowns.
Liked and subbed. Want to see more.
Thanks for watching 🙂
That Balfouri communal is insane, love it.
I know. It really is unbelievable
@@IanTarrantula Is that the only species of T that forms communals?
That’s so cool I always that Tarantulas liked living alone
Such beautiful T's!
That spider is very cute! :-)
I'm always amazed at how fast they move when they attack
Wow, beautiful communal! Awesome footage 😊👍
Thank you 😊
That setup is insane! Congratulations on the 600 subs mate
Thanks buddy 👍
Thanks to everyone who has so far watched, liked and subscribed.
Once I hit 1000 subscribers it will enable me to live stream again amd when that happens we will do a special live feeding of this amazing communal. So please subscribe if you would love to see that happen 🙂
Ian Tarrantula + Wao!! First time I see a colony like that!! They can be kept together. I wanna know more about this species. Thanks!!
@@negronjr7853 I shall be doing a complete guide on these soon. Just gathering up information and footage 🙂
@@negronjr7853 is it possible to put another Balfouri ts in that kind of set. Up which come from another egg sac?
@@vincesimon1284 I personally wouldn't recommend it. Maybe add mature males to introduce new bloodlines but that would be about it. My personal communal I have has 5 and I also have a sling but I will keep that one separate to my communal.
Question 💭❓if there is left over dead crickets in the tank. Do you clean them out? Or if not will they cause any problems like magets, or mites, or bad smell? Thanks for your time ⏰
those crickets act like an npcs.
Never seen communal turantulas before. Do any live in the wild like this? Looks amazing 👍
There isn't a massive amount of data researched on these. They come from Socotra Island in Yemen and it is quite remote. But where there have been sightings, there has been webbing like in the enclosure suggesting that they do live together in the wild. I would be my ultimate dream to go out and study them in their natural habitat. Maybe one day 🤞
@@IanTarrantula very fascinating, like something out of a movie. Great video 👍
My little girl loves tarantulas and loves the M Balfouri communal x
That is awesome that she is showing an interest in them. Balfouri communals are one of the best 😃
Very cool set up dude really enjoy the vid!
Thank you 😊
How many tarantulas are in this enclosure . IT's very interesting with these communal enclosure, i want to have this too but i don't know how many t's i can handle in it . Now i have 7 tarantulas, 4 of These are adult but not for communal .
Nice. There were 65 when we housed them in here. I have a communal of 5 myself and they are very easy to keep.
Stunning communal this and a P. Metallica communal are on my dream list.
Thank you. Yes a P. metallica communal is one of my upcoming projects. My female has just moulted and I had 2 sud adult males so waiting for one of them to mature 🙂
Ian Tarrantula Nice best of luck on that project. I subbed keep up the good work.
@@oldpop788 thank you. Really appreciate it 🙂
cockroaches: just freeze they wont find us. minutes later....
How big is that set up?
Congratulations on your 100k views my friend 😊
They say that in the animal kingdom one of the first great steps in an animal's evolution is societal standards. (Humans having some of the most followed by ants and whales and etc)
Makes me wonder just how smart these little devils really are.
I’ll have heart attack if I saw that
Tarantulas are very nice in my opinion
6:14 woah I've never seen a blue tarantula before those colours look amazing :o
These are the most beautiful of Blue Tarantulas. Check this one out:
th-cam.com/video/rh7NVG_87fA/w-d-xo.html
Love the spider house with lot of doors or windows. don't they fight against each other?
No real fighting
Hey just wondering I tried a communal and first 2 days I lost 1 of 4 and I can't tell how many are left . At least one . If there are more they are in the ground
Dont they fight ??? Really cool tho i love my spider 🕷 😍
Not really. They may squabble over food but no aggression towards one another
Despite how much I’ve loved spiders and have been fascinated by their existence for years to the point of researching them constantly.. I’m genuinely amazed that I never learned that sometimes spiders will live in colonies and form a “Social Spider” group. But now that I know this, I’m even more amazed at how intelligent and fascinating these 8 legged creatures can be.
swtg spiders are the biggest fuck you to anything alive and humans love it or hate it XD theres an reason we instinctually fear the fuckers and either learn to not fear them or we are less genetically scared of them
this is why im glad to live in the northern hemisphere
Awesome videos and Music
Love how you close up on them very good
5:40 i know its from jumping, but it looks like the one on the right just football punted a cricket
are they the only terrestrial tarantulas that can live like that, I mean in group? I believe most of them are solitaries unlike arboreals
There seem to be a few others that people have experimented with. N. incei being one of those. But balfouri are definitely the most successful
@@IanTarrantula so what if they come across each other, do they try to fight and kill or eat each other?
@@riderfkc2835 I have seen no aggression from them. I have seen a couple of little scuffles over food before. It is quite incredible. There does seem a bit of a hierarchy in the colony. I have seen one walk by and kind of tap another with its legs and it has moved out of its way. There is still soo much to learn from these guys.
@@IanTarrantula ah you mean like an alpha male of the group, that's fascinating
So awesome i never seen so many adult t's together
Amazing setup mate . It's dead cool to see this. I've been wanting to do a similar thing since seeing this. Do you keep males and females together?
A few mature males have been taken out.
Do the females lay egg sacs in the enclosure and the babies hatch and raise up inside it?
@@NORTHERNEXOTICS that is an interesting question and one we hope to answer in the future. There is currently only 1 generation in there currently and the females are only just coming upto maturity. We can confirm that the mothers are very maternal and will share her food with her offspring.
Is this a species that eat the males after intercourse
What was the last spider you fed?
beautiful set up 🕸 😍
This is really cool especially since I have a little arachnophobia how do the tarantulas know not to kill each other
Thanks for watching. It is amazing how many people I speak to who have started to keep tarantulas to try and help cure theor arachnophobia. These are one of a few unique species that can be kept together. It is still unknown why. But maybe something that has been imprinted on them for many generations. Their natural habitat is a very small island and maybe they jave learnt to live together in a group rather than in solitary burrows. More research needs to be done but due to their rarity in the wild, it is very difficult.
Wow, how many are in there?
Great video. Please do more so I can distract myself from life by watching Tarantula feeding videos 😂 🕸🕸🕸🕷🕷🕷
Haha. Thanks! Well it is feeding time tonight so if I get any decent clips then I may put a few together 🙂
Simply amazing
Hi, i just recently started getting interested in communal T's And hv a question.
Did you just let the egg sac be and left the young's inside the enclosure?
If so wont there be a risk of overpopulation or is there a way to control it?
It is a good question. This was all from the same sac and rehoused them into this enclosure in about March this year. They have been digging out the enclosure over the last 9 months and there are a number of tunnels. So space is aplenty. We are debating reducing the number down to about 30 but still deciding what to do with it. As they were all sac mates the chances of them breeding is fairly slim (although not impossible) once we find a mature male we remove them (we have taken about 10 out so far) One thing we would like to study is breeding behaviours in communals. But where this is the 1st generation, we haven't got that far yet. One for the future 🙂
@@IanTarrantula If I get balfouris from the same sac, that are of opposite sex, is it unlikely that they will mate? I'm looking to have a communal of just two, but I don't want to have babies if I happen to get two of the opposite sex. I have heard the males mature, and die, much faster than females, so the male might be gone by the time the female is mature.
This was interesting in a beautiful way. Woooow
That's incredible mate,😎👍
Here from Bug Realms' live ahah x
Oh my god i love Balfouries. I hope some day i'll have my own too!
You won't regret it when you do 😁
Really awesome feeding video on your m Balfouri communal mate and how many is in communal :)
Thank you 😊
There was 65 when we put them in there
My first spider was a GBB. I only have the 1 but man I love these spiders and love the fact that they can be kept communally only makes them cooler. How often do you change the enclosure? When you do change it is it just a lot of catch-cups and time getting all the animas out safely?
We changed it once. They are generally very clean and tidy so no need for substrate changes ect.
Look at that beauty wow
How do they get along so well? :)
Great video mate, about to change my Balfouri communal to a better set up.
Nice mate. Look forward to seeing it
Love the Vids mate!
Will you be attending the Eastern Invert show?
Thanks mate!
Unfortunately I won't be going 😕
I will be in Brighton for the Southern Invert show however.
I wanna start one of these. Then put cool movie references in their tank. First 2 I can think of is Frodo & Sam. & A guy on a dirt bike like the end of “Eight Legged Freaks”
How many tarantulas live in the nest 20 or so or more than that ?
We have 4 tarantulas I love them!❤🕷
That is awesome 🙂 which ones do you have?
A really good friend of mine has three and if possible I will stand there for hours and watch them. I mean I could throw a whatever size tv out the window and sit a couch in front of something like that.
I lvoe the communal videos. Hopefully the mum's sac will do well
Fingers crossed 🤞🤞🤞
Wonder what it’d be like to get like a like long tube camera and go down into the holes and see what it’s really like in there
I will be looking into getting some sort of endoscope so we can see 🙂
@@IanTarrantula omg that would be awesome!! Thank you for replying!! That’s so awesome too!!
@@chandaphillips1337 no problem. Sorry it took so long to reply.
Very good
And from this video it looks like an alien landscape.
If we use macro cameras then it gonna be a totally different perspective.
Good video,what kind of spiders are they ?That they can all live together like that?
They are called Monocentropus balfouri. Common name is Socotra Island blue leg baboon tarantula. Yes these are one of very few that can live together peacefully. Pretty cool 🙂
Hi, tell me please, and if a pregnant female appears in the colony, she also gives birth there, or do you follow this and try to plant her separately?
We are hoping to breed them in there.
Tnx for the vids bro. It really help me how to set-up and know what is communal.
More vids about this. 😁😁✌🏼
Thanks for watching. There is plenty of updates on my channel to keep you going for a while 🙂
I would love to have an M. Balfouri communal, but alas I only have a singular A.Seemani. I don’t belive I have the experience to do so. Rehousing could be a nightmare for me.
if you put the fresh slings in the old communal will the bigger ts eat the smaller ones
Possibly. I wouldn't recommend doing it.
The idea of a communal enclosure is so interesting to me! I am very impressed with your set up. Have you lost some tarantulas with this type of set up? Just curious.
I know. It was only a few years ago I thought exactly that! To be honest, we are not sure. When we housed them there were 65. I would like to think that there are 65 still in there but it would be impossible to tell without getting them all out and doing a head count.
@@IanTarrantula holy shit that's crazy! Are these the only communal tarantulas?
Omg. Omg... You have such a cute family of spiders in one terrarium...
I can't wait for mine too get that size
Hi Ian Great "but extremely squirmy" video. I love this type of video.
I watched a clip a while ago and it showed a keeper collecting Balfour for a communal box counted them and individually boxed them. I could be wrong but I think he got passed 20 in the total amount, I cannot find it anywhere does it ring any bells with you? Was it you?
Thanks again xxxx
Thanks 😊
I think it possibly could have been one of mine when we rearranged this enclosure possibly 🤔
I love what your doing and your footage of your amazing communal!! One question?? How do you clean out all of the bolus's and old molts to prevent a mold problem?
Thank you. They do tend to have a bit of a clean up every now and then. They throw old moulta out and tend to have a small area where waste is dumped. It is actually really fascinating.
@@IanTarrantula Very fascinating indeed! That makes cleanup a bit easier on you guys I would imagine. Thanks for the info :) Cheers!
So want something like this in my classroom.
That would be awesome thing to do and to be able to show your students 🙂
Wow those cute tarantulas don't fight? Only those species?
how many tarantulas are in there?
What is the song [music] because it's good in the ears.
It is called:
"Song of mirrors"
It is on the TH-cam audio library.
Have they killed each other being in the same enclosure?
No. These guys seem to live happily as a communal. There is obviously some risk with it but it is slim.
You could tell exact moment the other bugs noticed this aint right lol
beautiful😍
I hate spiders but this looks amazing seeing them get there food.
so much crickets? arent they danger in this amount? cricket can bite tarantulas and small reptails to death during night.... feel free to correct me if im wrong, im not expert
There were 65 tarantulas in there. They all get eaten after a day or 2 🙂
I was thinking about them being fed before you trew that carton full of roaches in😂😂😂
Holy shit. I thought a scene like this was only in movies. Im not scared im fascinated by that habitat u made for them.
Should the tarantulas be housed together like that? Or while feeding? I'm a newbie to Ts and I'm genuinely curious.
Most of the time you are correct. But there are a very small amount that can be kept communally. These guy being the best communal tarantulas in the hobby. They will share food.
Why are they all together?
That a special social Tarantula or something?
Thanks for the quick ptsd 👍🏻
You're welcome. 🤣
@ian tarantula what if it sneaks out of its cage and crawls on your face at night
Nice video: you ever think of feeding them a big locusts or horn worm so you don't have to do multiple little hoppers,,? Just curious no critic at all.
Thanks. I think it is easier to use crickets for these. Because ofnthe amount that is in there and the amount of other tarantulas Graeme has, crickets are the best option for him. We have used dubias before but where they play dead, they don't atteact the balfouris attention easily.
@@IanTarrantula oh I understand that completely, between them playing dead and burrowing under its hard for the T's to find them. Makes total sense and its cool seeing them gather all of them up.
very cool, would love to visit Socotra and see them in the wild one day.
That would be my ultimate dream. I have looked into it and it is very expensive 😲
What happen to the crickets uneaten / alive
They all get eaten after a day or 2 🙂
There is 65 Ts in there. I bet it dont take them long
Imagine this lot escaping. My worse nightmare as 65 Ts in there. Lol
Surprised this is the first comment about there being 65 in there.
Awesome video mate. How many Balfouri do you have in there?
There were 65 in here at the time of filming.