We had a Pokie that we thought escaped from it’s enclosure. I mean, we searched and searched the entire enclosure. We even dug through all the substrates and looked inside the log we had in there. The spider was nowhere to be found. So we disassembled the enclosure and put the log into a ziplock bag. Fast forward about a month and a half, we got another tarantula, and decided to use the same log for the new T. Come to find out, the pokie was hiding VERY WELL inside that log. It was still alive… barely. It was super dehydrated. You can’t even imagine how bad we felt! So we set up an enclosure for it and put it in there, gave it some water, and waited. That thing came right back to life within a couple of days! It is doing very well now! And we have named it Ziplock!
So far the only T that has escaped was my H. mac. The lid was loose and she found it. We didn't know she was out until my brother-in-law was getting ready for work and found her in his pants. The loudest screams are the funniest really.
I had my brachypelma hamorii escape while I was on a trip to Indiana (I’m from New Jersey) and my mom was watching over her while I was gone and she told me the lid wasn’t latched on and she got out. I was so worried, and she looked everywhere and finally found her sitting underneath my crocheted tarantula plushie. Props to my mom for noticing her missing and getting a container and scooping her back into the enclosure.
Hey sweetie. My husband and i have been watching the channel since we got our first tarantula about 5 years ago. Now we've got 5 of them and we still watch. You're a reliable source of info. We appreciate what you do and we are very happy you do what you do. Thank you so much. We really appreciate you. We havent had any escape yet thankfully enough.
Once my Amazonicus germani teleported on me and I chased her 3 hours straight. Everytime I moved piece of furniture she teleported behind another piece. When I was sitting and crying in the center of room that looks like after heavy bombing, stealthy bastard was sitting under the ceiling. I swear she laughted at me. 🤣
I would love to share the story of how my cobalt blue escaped and was loose in my Hollywood apartment for a month before I found him again I was a novice keeper, back when they were still haplopelma. I was used to my pink toes, grammastolas... and I had an OBT as well (who was really mellow). One night during feeding, the Cobalt bolted and ran up out of his container, out of the secondary container that I always put my tarantulas containers in when I open them, across the kitchen stove, hopped down onto the floor and promptly vanished. Yes that's right, Richard's rated number one most dangerous, medically significant Venom psycho tarantula is loose in my apartment. We trying to find him and he was as good as gone. We tore the kitchen apart that night. After a couple days of not seeing him, we had given up on the search, but I did leave a little water bowl near the stove and I let a couple of crickets loose on the floor so he wouldn't starve. My house was a zoo LOL Queue to a month later, I'm at my desk at the computer and the landline phone rings. (This was back in the late 90s.) Normally I would have just grabbed the phone, but this time for some weird reason I looked first. And wouldn't you know it, that cobalt blue was up on my phone giving me a threat posture. If I had reached out for the phone I would have been tagged for sure. I grabbed the catch cup, and very very slowly... very very gingerly... placed it over his outstretched arms without incident. We had been incredibly lucky that he didn't crawl across somebody's face in the night or get stepped on with the daily comings and goings of the house, and we were able to safely recapture him. As soon as I put him back in his enclosure, he ran over to his bowl and took a big drink and then barricaded himself into his cave for another couple of weeks and then molted. He went on to live a long boring life. But it was quite an adventure while it happened😅😅
Hello there and friendly greetings! I lost my G. pulchra sling, last August, because I forgot to safely close its enclosure. I woke up one morning and I saw the lid pushed away and never saw my little one ever again.😪 What really made me sad is that it was my fault AND the fact I was not able to bring it back. It is painful when you lose one of your pets but it is a lot worst when you know that it was your mistake. Anyway, lesson learnt. Now all my enclosures got a neodymium magnets lock system that I made for all of them: if the lock do not click I know I need to check the lock. And I am confident no tarantula is able to open it. You know... Neodymium magnets... 😉
I had my chromatopelma cyanopubescens bolt out of its terrarium like a speed demon when I was removing its molt. It just disappeared and I couldn't find it anywhere. Then I had an idea and checked the mirror: it was chilling on my back!
Had a 1" P. regalis escape through a vent that I mistakenly left open right after a rehousing. T's were all kept in the basement and I did'nt realize it was missing until days later, I felt so terrible and I puposefully neglected to tell my wife about the incident. 6 weeks after it went missing I was informed by my wife who was standing right beside me that her mother was coming to visit. I took what money I had on me and jokingly hid it from my mother in-law behind a speaker bar that was on a tall dresser. As I was opening my hand to drop the cash I felt a creature jump onto my hand and at the same instant with lightening reflexes was the wife screaming bloody murder. I have kept T's for a very long time and I knew just by the feeling, before I could even see it, that it was my tarantula. I think anyone that has handled a T before can attest that has a distinct, unique feel. I had some explaining to do to the wife because in my excitement I let it slip that it had been missing for 6 weeks. It looked healthy, the basement was very humid but it was far from being the largest critter in the house. It survived my cat who loved to hunt little critters. Fast forward 6 years and The P. regalis is doing great. I consider myself fortunate in the extreme.
I just want to say that your channel was what made me finally work up the courage to get my first ever sling (a Caribena versicolor). You just make all these pretty scary topics seem so approachable and non-threatening. Today my sling tried to make a run for it and I was able to not panic and get it back safely, and I think your channel and this video played a huge part in that.
Definitely one of the best & most useful podcasts that I've listened to in a long while! You are very well -spoken & thoroughly knowledgable in the subject matter. I have a small wild Jumping Spider that is wintering with me after I found it on my porch almost frozen. There's a lot of hype about spiders on the internet, but little usable advice. Your videos are the best I've found on any app. Thank you for help in setting up a habitat, feeding, watering, & being responsible for my 8-legged guest.
I don’t keep any inverts (yet 😂) but came across your channel a while back and continue to binge it as I can. I just want to say how much I enjoy watching your videos and really appreciate the thought you put into them. You are a really genuine, talented, and hard working guy. You’ve earned every bit of your success and then some. Thanks for keeping it real.
RICHARD this is such a helpful topic, thank you for going over this. One of the main reason I love your content, we talk about the embarrassing topics. Thank you for another great episode
I had a juvenile Chaco golden knee that played hoodinie.i found it six months later. I looked all over for it. How it escaped is I used a sliding lid. Apparently the lid didn't get pushed in all the way. In my case, the tarantula was deceased. I found it in the plastic shelving . It apparently made it to the top of the shelf. It molted and fell too it's death. Since then, I put another tarantula in the same tank. It has not escaped. The error was definitely mine. I've also had a salmon pink bird eater sling that escaped. Never saw it again. It escaped from the vent hole.
Great topic to bring up! I've lost a G. Rosea for a couple days then found it roaming on the floor of the warmest room in the house. It had been living without a lid for a while and hadn't tried leaving before, until I soaked the substrate a bit too much. Also had a L. sazimai sling escape the sling nursery through the exo terra enclosure wire holes, I had left the sling enclosure itself open to air out and wasn't aware it could get out of the nursery set up. Found it on the ceiling the next morning before I realized it had escaped. All ended well so far but I need to have a plan of action for my sling feather leg baboon and P. Regalis so that never happens with them. This video helped me get some ideas. For podcast guests, I'd like to see Clint's Reptiles and Snake Discovery, more Vet content, loved Marshall Arachnid podcast. Good luck going full time on YT!
i've been enjoying the changes you've been making on the channel like focusing on improving the quality of life of the inverts with their enclosure set ups. i've had one escapee, a tapenacious sp tena. i was So scared that she could have been injured. so we went "make it dark come back in an hour" and found her across the room in the corner over my desk. i know How she escaped, and its kinda embarrassing. she hid in the substrate i scooped out during a rehouse. dismantled the entire new enclosure. no spider. went through the dirt. no spider. i was so embarrassed and so relieved when my spouse was able to cup her.
Rehousing tip if youre worried that they could escape or youre a bit of a beginner. Put your spiders enclosure inside a larger enclosure, if need be or possible put the two enclosures in another enclosure or bigger plastic tub with lids. If it escapes the first enclosure you have time to react to grab the lid or close the other enclosure to prevent it from getting loose in the house. Multiple catch cups in different sizes. Tongs and paint brushes near by.
Have had 2 escapes over the years. One was a plastic Amac box that the lid got pushed up on, and the other was a sliding plastic closet organizer that the drawer either accidentally slid open on, or the T itself managed to slide it open just a crack. In both cases we found the Ts in the exact same spot; on the other side of the room above a bookshelf that has stuffed animals laid out on top of the bookshelf, we found each of the Ts snuggled up in the stuffed animals. Separate incidents mind you, but they both went for the stuffed animals.
What a great video. I picked up a Ornithoctoninae Sp Phan Cay Red (Purple Blaze Tree Spider yesterday. It's a small sling and loves to climb. Had my home made pre drilled enclosure ready. Holes where drilled just a little to big. He never got out, I caught it in time. But this pod cast you just did. Really hit home. Great content like always Richard and keep them coming.
I am definitely OCD. Every night weather it is feeding time or not, I check my locks at least 3 times. I will grab my flashlight and go over every cage. I am kinda happy I am OCD. When feeding. I grab my cages one at a time, feed then water then lock. It is a habit I will not brak.
A month late but I always rehouse my Ts in the tub. I just put a plug in for the drain and a sock cover over the spout. Never had an issue, but I also just have slings.
I unfortunately lost my very first tarantula got it as a tiny little spec and got to the size of about a half dollar and unfortunately our cat knocked over the enclosure I searched for about a day and a half couldn't find it in one morning I woke up to get ready for work and I seen the cat go running across the living room and sure enough it had got a hold of the tarantula. So now I have made special shelves that the cat can't knock over the enclosures
I've only had one spider escape and it was 100% on me lol. When I first got Peaches, my Cheiracanthium inclusum, I put her in an enclosure with ventilation holes that she managed to squeeze out of. I was definitely pretty upset at myself as it's such a rookie mistake. Luckily the next day I looked up and she was chilling on the ceiling above my desk 😂. She was easily apprehended and now lives in an enclosure with much smaller ventilation holes.
I've only had a tarantula escape once. It was P. murinus (surprise, surprise). She just bolted and went inside my sofa. It took me a few hours to get her out.
Putting corn starch across the floor in strategic areas to see if the spider leaves the area or is moving around . I have about 55 T's. I've had 2 escapes. Both times it was the same spider. My sweetheart T. albo mature female (Glinda.) Both times was fully my fault. I forgot to latch the lid back on her enclosure. Luckily, I have my T room completely sealed off, so she wasn't getting out of that room. Both times I found her under my snake's enclosure. She had kicked off all the hair on her butt and was looking bald, but she was ok. I double check everything now.
My cat was the culprit in my case too 🥲 I was so lucky to only have one spider go missing. I’m so glad my OBT didn’t get out because his case was knocked over and open from my cat knocking their whole shelf over. My P. tigrinawesseli is still on the loose this morning.
Oh yes. I've had my fair share of escapes. My tip: always know where your spider is before you open the enclosure. And also know what is around you and nearby you if the spider were to escape. I bought a small flashlight for the sole purpose of looking for tiny spiders to ensure I know where they are before I open.
Thank you for making this pod cast. I'm new to the hobby and have been concerned about how to find my spiders if they were to escape. Lol knowing me it will eventually happen.
So far ive had 2 escapes lol the first one wasnt so much as an escape but it got away from me when rehousing and i havent the slightest clue how i found it bec it was a freaking Hapolopous sp columbia but to make it worse it was like 1 mm sling that was like the size of a tiny tick it was so crazy how small it was and i havent the slightest clue how i managed to find it thankfully from watching plenty of videos and doing my research i knew the first places to check and thankfully it was right under my table i honestly dont know how i spotted it but the second was a mistake i didnt properly close my enclosure and when i came down the next day to check on everyone she wasnt in her enclosure she is an avic avic and thankfully she was the bestest of girls and just hung out near thw warmth of a heat pad ontop of another enclosure just chillen she is such a good girl she just came right onto my hand and went rifht back home i got lucky bec i was actually ready to rehouse her and the enclosure was already set up and i was letting the plants get going and so she went right into her new home and settled right in
Hi all,I once come home from work and one of my adult female red knee was missing.i turned the house upside down looking for her . five weeks later I woke up and she was on my quilt 😅.
Do you think you might be able to do a video/podcast where you explain the adaptation between different inverts vs their climates. Many of them look very similar but what about their bodies differentiates itself for say tropical climate to temperate or mountains vs plains.
Awesome video richard! thanks for thinking out of the box lol... i have been lucky enough not to have any escapees yet, 2 years in and almost 100 spiders later its bound to happen at somepoint. will keep all this info safe for as and when its needed!
Whoa, long video. This must be a major topic. I don't own any arthropods, but I long to keep a tarantula. I suspect this knowledge might come in handy one day. Oh, I do have a fledgling colony of Armadillidium maculata, isopods. If I did own a tarantula, and it escaped, mom would see to it that it was the last one I owned. I'm considering getting one without her knowledge lol. Better to ask forgiveness than to seek permission, as they say.
My Pumpkin Patch sling escaped twice! The first time my dog found it, the 2nd time I still haven’t found it. Made me so upset, still hoping it’s somewhere. It slipped thru the lid
My rule of thumb, all old world go in to terrariums that the doors slide up and down. Then theres no way to forget to close it since it falls closed automatically. New worlds i will put in any other terrariums whether exo terra or doors that slide left and right. So if they do escape, its not as scary having an hmac or chilobrachys running around in your house. Most new worlds are easier to find and they dont seem to travel to far or too high, unless their arboreal, and they are usually enclosures that slide up and down.
@@calliew311 i have a few taller glass enclosures that have drop down doors that meet half way. Meaning the bottom part of the front goes up to the middle. Another way. Is creating a natural barrier before the sliding door. That allows you to put substrate higher than the beginning of the opening. Whether its a piece of wood creating a second wall higher inside. But if those not available, then exo terra.
Just want to say that I love Tarantula Cribs enclosures I have a bunch, and are definitely my favorite but I had the large slider crib split at one of the corners, it’s set up as a bio active and is kind of packed full 😂 it’s housing a Theraphosa apophysis thank goodness I noticed before I had an escape, a little super glue and all is good.
I thought my 1 inch arizona blonde was burrowing. Then 3 weeks later i had a funny feeling and i thoroughly checked enclosure. She was gone. She likely squeezed out ventilation holes i didnt realize were too large. No luck yet. ☹️
Early in my keeping I lost a teeny tiny Kochiana brunipes out of the ventilation holes I made in it’s deli cup. Devastating. I think a house spider most likely got it 😢 Now all but just a couple are in tarantula cribs enclosures, but my Nhandhu tripepii is the one I check most on my “jailer rounds.” She’s in a home organizer type tub which I’ve seen her climbing all over the lid of, so I use another enclosure to weigh the lid down, seems to be working but she’ll e going into a tarantula crib with a nice live plant soon.
It happened to me only once by my mistake that a tarantula had escaped lol with a Poechilotiera metallica......but it had not traveled so much I found it 10 cm from the terrarium at the night, I had already taken the ladder to check all the spaces at the top xd...
I'm just lucky. I fell asleep the other night with one open, H. gabonensis. Why it was open who knows, I fed it already, not like I was going back for more roaches lol. She was there in the morning. Every time I've slipped they've stayed put. Only one that ever got out was my hmac, thought it was buried, saw it on the curtain lol.
In the 90s i had a Chilean flame hair that escaped she went missing for just about a week, when my sister got up early for work, she woke me shed found her so i got up went down stairs and collard her😂 and put her back in her homestead 🕷🖤🖤🇬🇧 even my sister didn't get scared of her❤
My hamorii got out cheap pos amazon acrylic enclosure, got sick and tired of the scratches polishing off the damn water spots and poo.... so I build my own glass pimp homes many cuts and dollars later on tools and glass hole drills I finally have something I'm truly satisfied with I even build a glass enclosed cabinet as a nursery that is climate controlled there's 2 sections for my dryer babies and a more humid section for tropical species i have a hepa room air filter in there so they are not getting no room air freshener farts they are all happy!
i have a B. hamorii that escaped few times (my bad) but i always find her behind a whiteboard that i kept procrastinating to put on the wall, so now i won't put it up because i don't know where else would i look for my baby
I lost 1 spider like that. I accidentally left lid open, when i noticed it was too late. 2 cm Brachypelma Auratum, i couldnt find it anywhere. 2 days later i was doing laundry and after i pulled clothes out of the washing machine, i noticed remains of carapace and legs inside. I washed that spider 😢 I should have checked inside of dirty clothes before putting them inside washing machine.
I have a female A avic and had a male also, when I was new. They were in the plastic zilla ones. I called the male "Horndog" cause he somehow squeezed out of his enclosure, walked past 4 other T enclosures in good glass enclosures and got in with the female..i thought i was losing my mind😂..ill never use those plastic ones again. They were only 2 I used those for. How did he know to go to her enclosure? It was a trip..he never got to mate though luckily. He passed a few months after.
Only a couple new worlds, but all old worlds lack urticating hairs. Most beginner tarantulas aren't very kicky. Like curly hairs, or Grammastola pulchra (Brazilian black).
I always thought it funny that tarantulas won't move for weeks and then that one time you look away with the enclosure open and it's off to the races. They are smarter than people give them credit for.
We had a Pokie that we thought escaped from it’s enclosure. I mean, we searched and searched the entire enclosure. We even dug through all the substrates and looked inside the log we had in there. The spider was nowhere to be found. So we disassembled the enclosure and put the log into a ziplock bag. Fast forward about a month and a half, we got another tarantula, and decided to use the same log for the new T. Come to find out, the pokie was hiding VERY WELL inside that log. It was still alive… barely. It was super dehydrated. You can’t even imagine how bad we felt! So we set up an enclosure for it and put it in there, gave it some water, and waited. That thing came right back to life within a couple of days! It is doing very well now! And we have named it Ziplock!
Lol, cool name.
@@LukeMcGuireoides Thanks!
Happened to me. Thing is it was a long time before I reused the bark tube. It was in my bark bin for ages.
And she was found and was fine😅
@@migueltonnies6856 they certainly are resilient little critters!
I mostly keep pokies. If one escapes I would pray that it liked how gently I filled the water dish in its enclosure the day before
So far the only T that has escaped was my H. mac. The lid was loose and she found it. We didn't know she was out until my brother-in-law was getting ready for work and found her in his pants. The loudest screams are the funniest really.
I had my brachypelma hamorii escape while I was on a trip to Indiana (I’m from New Jersey) and my mom was watching over her while I was gone and she told me the lid wasn’t latched on and she got out. I was so worried, and she looked everywhere and finally found her sitting underneath my crocheted tarantula plushie. Props to my mom for noticing her missing and getting a container and scooping her back into the enclosure.
Hey sweetie. My husband and i have been watching the channel since we got our first tarantula about 5 years ago. Now we've got 5 of them and we still watch. You're a reliable source of info. We appreciate what you do and we are very happy you do what you do. Thank you so much. We really appreciate you.
We havent had any escape yet thankfully enough.
7:45 “I think like a T……then when I’m scuttling around I know exactly where I’d be” 😂
Once my Amazonicus germani teleported on me and I chased her 3 hours straight. Everytime I moved piece of furniture she teleported behind another piece. When I was sitting and crying in the center of room that looks like after heavy bombing, stealthy bastard was sitting under the ceiling. I swear she laughted at me. 🤣
I would love to share the story of how my cobalt blue escaped and was loose in my Hollywood apartment for a month before I found him again
I was a novice keeper, back when they were still haplopelma. I was used to my pink toes, grammastolas... and I had an OBT as well (who was really mellow). One night during feeding, the Cobalt bolted and ran up out of his container, out of the secondary container that I always put my tarantulas containers in when I open them, across the kitchen stove, hopped down onto the floor and promptly vanished. Yes that's right, Richard's rated number one most dangerous, medically significant Venom psycho tarantula is loose in my apartment. We trying to find him and he was as good as gone. We tore the kitchen apart that night. After a couple days of not seeing him, we had given up on the search, but I did leave a little water bowl near the stove and I let a couple of crickets loose on the floor so he wouldn't starve. My house was a zoo LOL
Queue to a month later, I'm at my desk at the computer and the landline phone rings. (This was back in the late 90s.) Normally I would have just grabbed the phone, but this time for some weird reason I looked first. And wouldn't you know it, that cobalt blue was up on my phone giving me a threat posture. If I had reached out for the phone I would have been tagged for sure. I grabbed the catch cup, and very very slowly... very very gingerly... placed it over his outstretched arms without incident. We had been incredibly lucky that he didn't crawl across somebody's face in the night or get stepped on with the daily comings and goings of the house, and we were able to safely recapture him.
As soon as I put him back in his enclosure, he ran over to his bowl and took a big drink and then barricaded himself into his cave for another couple of weeks and then molted. He went on to live a long boring life. But it was quite an adventure while it happened😅😅
Hello there and friendly greetings!
I lost my G. pulchra sling, last August, because I forgot to safely close its enclosure. I woke up one morning and I saw the lid pushed away and never saw my little one ever again.😪
What really made me sad is that it was my fault AND the fact I was not able to bring it back.
It is painful when you lose one of your pets but it is a lot worst when you know that it was your mistake.
Anyway, lesson learnt. Now all my enclosures got a neodymium magnets lock system that I made for all of them: if the lock do not click I know I need to check the lock.
And I am confident no tarantula is able to open it. You know... Neodymium magnets... 😉
I had my chromatopelma cyanopubescens bolt out of its terrarium like a speed demon when I was removing its molt. It just disappeared and I couldn't find it anywhere. Then I had an idea and checked the mirror: it was chilling on my back!
Had a 1" P. regalis escape through a vent that I mistakenly left open right after a rehousing. T's were all kept in the basement and I did'nt realize it was missing until days later, I felt so terrible and I puposefully neglected to tell my wife about the incident.
6 weeks after it went missing I was informed by my wife who was standing right beside me that her mother was coming to visit. I took what money I had on me and jokingly hid it from my mother in-law behind a speaker bar that was on a tall dresser. As I was opening my hand to drop the cash I felt a creature jump onto my hand and at the same instant with lightening reflexes was the wife screaming bloody murder.
I have kept T's for a very long time and I knew just by the feeling, before I could even see it, that it was my tarantula. I think anyone that has handled a T before can attest that has a distinct, unique feel.
I had some explaining to do to the wife because in my excitement I let it slip that it had been missing for 6 weeks.
It looked healthy, the basement was very humid but it was far from being the largest critter in the house. It survived my cat who loved to hunt little critters.
Fast forward 6 years and The P. regalis is doing great. I consider myself fortunate in the extreme.
I just want to say that your channel was what made me finally work up the courage to get my first ever sling (a Caribena versicolor). You just make all these pretty scary topics seem so approachable and non-threatening. Today my sling tried to make a run for it and I was able to not panic and get it back safely, and I think your channel and this video played a huge part in that.
Needed this information 5 months ago. Definitely will keep this in mind moving forward.
Definitely one of the best & most useful podcasts that I've listened to in a long while! You are very well -spoken & thoroughly knowledgable in the subject matter. I have a small wild Jumping Spider that is wintering with me after I found it on my porch almost frozen. There's a lot of hype about spiders on the internet, but little usable advice. Your videos are the best I've found on any app. Thank you for help in setting up a habitat, feeding, watering, & being responsible for my 8-legged guest.
I don’t keep any inverts (yet 😂) but came across your channel a while back and continue to binge it as I can. I just want to say how much I enjoy watching your videos and really appreciate the thought you put into them. You are a really genuine, talented, and hard working guy. You’ve earned every bit of your success and then some. Thanks for keeping it real.
RICHARD this is such a helpful topic, thank you for going over this. One of the main reason I love your content, we talk about the embarrassing topics. Thank you for another great episode
I had a juvenile Chaco golden knee that played hoodinie.i found it six months later. I looked all over for it. How it escaped is I used a sliding lid. Apparently the lid didn't get pushed in all the way. In my case, the tarantula was deceased. I found it in the plastic shelving . It apparently made it to the top of the shelf. It molted and fell too it's death. Since then, I put another tarantula in the same tank. It has not escaped. The error was definitely mine.
I've also had a salmon pink bird eater sling that escaped. Never saw it again. It escaped from the vent hole.
Love the videos! I now have 4 tarantulas and I used your discount code for my first crib. Thanks bud!
Great topic to bring up! I've lost a G. Rosea for a couple days then found it roaming on the floor of the warmest room in the house. It had been living without a lid for a while and hadn't tried leaving before, until I soaked the substrate a bit too much. Also had a L. sazimai sling escape the sling nursery through the exo terra enclosure wire holes, I had left the sling enclosure itself open to air out and wasn't aware it could get out of the nursery set up. Found it on the ceiling the next morning before I realized it had escaped. All ended well so far but I need to have a plan of action for my sling feather leg baboon and P. Regalis so that never happens with them. This video helped me get some ideas. For podcast guests, I'd like to see Clint's Reptiles and Snake Discovery, more Vet content, loved Marshall Arachnid podcast. Good luck going full time on YT!
I support you fully on your TH-cam career! I enjoy your videos, and I'll share them as I can!
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i've been enjoying the changes you've been making on the channel like focusing on improving the quality of life of the inverts with their enclosure set ups.
i've had one escapee, a tapenacious sp tena. i was So scared that she could have been injured. so we went "make it dark come back in an hour" and found her across the room in the corner over my desk. i know How she escaped, and its kinda embarrassing. she hid in the substrate i scooped out during a rehouse. dismantled the entire new enclosure. no spider. went through the dirt. no spider. i was so embarrassed and so relieved when my spouse was able to cup her.
Rehousing tip if youre worried that they could escape or youre a bit of a beginner. Put your spiders enclosure inside a larger enclosure, if need be or possible put the two enclosures in another enclosure or bigger plastic tub with lids. If it escapes the first enclosure you have time to react to grab the lid or close the other enclosure to prevent it from getting loose in the house. Multiple catch cups in different sizes. Tongs and paint brushes near by.
Have had 2 escapes over the years. One was a plastic Amac box that the lid got pushed up on, and the other was a sliding plastic closet organizer that the drawer either accidentally slid open on, or the T itself managed to slide it open just a crack. In both cases we found the Ts in the exact same spot; on the other side of the room above a bookshelf that has stuffed animals laid out on top of the bookshelf, we found each of the Ts snuggled up in the stuffed animals. Separate incidents mind you, but they both went for the stuffed animals.
Maybe we should all give our T's some stuffed animals to prevent escapes. :P
What a great video. I picked up a Ornithoctoninae Sp Phan Cay Red (Purple Blaze Tree Spider yesterday. It's a small sling and loves to climb. Had my home made pre drilled enclosure ready. Holes where drilled just a little to big. He never got out, I caught it in time. But this pod cast you just did. Really hit home. Great content like always Richard and keep them coming.
I am definitely OCD. Every night weather it is feeding time or not, I check my locks at least 3 times. I will grab my flashlight and go over every cage. I am kinda happy I am OCD. When feeding. I grab my cages one at a time, feed then water then lock. It is a habit I will not brak.
Only lost one found it in shower shelf. Tarantulas are smart went to water source
A month late but I always rehouse my Ts in the tub. I just put a plug in for the drain and a sock cover over the spout. Never had an issue, but I also just have slings.
Hats off to you Sir. Really like listening . Sorry I was rash a couple of days ago
please more of those videos, jsut you talking about something interesting without action cuts and what ever, I enjoyed it so much thank you! :D
I unfortunately lost my very first tarantula got it as a tiny little spec and got to the size of about a half dollar and unfortunately our cat knocked over the enclosure I searched for about a day and a half couldn't find it in one morning I woke up to get ready for work and I seen the cat go running across the living room and sure enough it had got a hold of the tarantula. So now I have made special shelves that the cat can't knock over the enclosures
By talking about locking your enclosures you just saved me from having an escaped sarasinorum gecko!
I've only had one spider escape and it was 100% on me lol. When I first got Peaches, my Cheiracanthium inclusum, I put her in an enclosure with ventilation holes that she managed to squeeze out of. I was definitely pretty upset at myself as it's such a rookie mistake. Luckily the next day I looked up and she was chilling on the ceiling above my desk 😂. She was easily apprehended and now lives in an enclosure with much smaller ventilation holes.
I've only had a tarantula escape once. It was P. murinus (surprise, surprise). She just bolted and went inside my sofa. It took me a few hours to get her out.
SLANDER ! Cats are perfect 😂🎉
Putting corn starch across the floor in strategic areas to see if the spider leaves the area or is moving around
. I have about 55 T's. I've had 2 escapes. Both times it was the same spider. My sweetheart T. albo mature female (Glinda.) Both times was fully my fault. I forgot to latch the lid back on her enclosure. Luckily, I have my T room completely sealed off, so she wasn't getting out of that room. Both times I found her under my snake's enclosure. She had kicked off all the hair on her butt and was looking bald, but she was ok. I double check everything now.
Somone once answered, two factors that caused the tarantula escape: 1. Forgetting to close the enclosure; 2. Their cat
My cat was the culprit in my case too 🥲 I was so lucky to only have one spider go missing. I’m so glad my OBT didn’t get out because his case was knocked over and open from my cat knocking their whole shelf over.
My P. tigrinawesseli is still on the loose this morning.
Hello great video information Richard
Oh yes. I've had my fair share of escapes.
My tip: always know where your spider is before you open the enclosure. And also know what is around you and nearby you if the spider were to escape. I bought a small flashlight for the sole purpose of looking for tiny spiders to ensure I know where they are before I open.
Thank you for making this pod cast. I'm new to the hobby and have been concerned about how to find my spiders if they were to escape. Lol knowing me it will eventually happen.
So far ive had 2 escapes lol the first one wasnt so much as an escape but it got away from me when rehousing and i havent the slightest clue how i found it bec it was a freaking Hapolopous sp columbia but to make it worse it was like 1 mm sling that was like the size of a tiny tick it was so crazy how small it was and i havent the slightest clue how i managed to find it thankfully from watching plenty of videos and doing my research i knew the first places to check and thankfully it was right under my table i honestly dont know how i spotted it but the second was a mistake i didnt properly close my enclosure and when i came down the next day to check on everyone she wasnt in her enclosure she is an avic avic and thankfully she was the bestest of girls and just hung out near thw warmth of a heat pad ontop of another enclosure just chillen she is such a good girl she just came right onto my hand and went rifht back home i got lucky bec i was actually ready to rehouse her and the enclosure was already set up and i was letting the plants get going and so she went right into her new home and settled right in
Hi all,I once come home from work and one of my adult female red knee was missing.i turned the house upside down looking for her . five weeks later I woke up and she was on my quilt 😅.
I’m so nervous about this happening, I only have small T’s but I rehouse using a big Tupperware container so hopefully the T doesn’t run far 😅
Do you think you might be able to do a video/podcast where you explain the adaptation between different inverts vs their climates. Many of them look very similar but what about their bodies differentiates itself for say tropical climate to temperate or mountains vs plains.
Awesome video richard! thanks for thinking out of the box lol... i have been lucky enough not to have any escapees yet, 2 years in and almost 100 spiders later its bound to happen at somepoint.
will keep all this info safe for as and when its needed!
Always wondered this!
Good vid love all ur content rich hope all is well
Thanks! You too!
Whoa, long video. This must be a major topic. I don't own any arthropods, but I long to keep a tarantula. I suspect this knowledge might come in handy one day. Oh, I do have a fledgling colony of Armadillidium maculata, isopods. If I did own a tarantula, and it escaped, mom would see to it that it was the last one I owned. I'm considering getting one without her knowledge lol. Better to ask forgiveness than to seek permission, as they say.
My Pumpkin Patch sling escaped twice! The first time my dog found it, the 2nd time I still haven’t found it. Made me so upset, still hoping it’s somewhere. It slipped thru the lid
My rule of thumb, all old world go in to terrariums that the doors slide up and down. Then theres no way to forget to close it since it falls closed automatically. New worlds i will put in any other terrariums whether exo terra or doors that slide left and right. So if they do escape, its not as scary having an hmac or chilobrachys running around in your house. Most new worlds are easier to find and they dont seem to travel to far or too high, unless their arboreal, and they are usually enclosures that slide up and down.
What if it's an old world fossorial? How could you have a drop down lid, and enough substrate?
@@calliew311 i have a few taller glass enclosures that have drop down doors that meet half way. Meaning the bottom part of the front goes up to the middle. Another way. Is creating a natural barrier before the sliding door. That allows you to put substrate higher than the beginning of the opening. Whether its a piece of wood creating a second wall higher inside. But if those not available, then exo terra.
Just want to say that I love Tarantula Cribs enclosures I have a bunch, and are definitely my favorite but I had the large slider crib split at one of the corners, it’s set up as a bio active and is kind of packed full 😂 it’s housing a Theraphosa apophysis thank goodness I noticed before I had an escape, a little super glue and all is good.
Great info. Happens to all of us. I have an H Gigas adult female that I cannot find for the life of me.
Still doing the trap thing.....
I thought my 1 inch arizona blonde was burrowing. Then 3 weeks later i had a funny feeling and i thoroughly checked enclosure. She was gone. She likely squeezed out ventilation holes i didnt realize were too large. No luck yet. ☹️
Early in my keeping I lost a teeny tiny Kochiana brunipes out of the ventilation holes I made in it’s deli cup. Devastating. I think a house spider most likely got it 😢
Now all but just a couple are in tarantula cribs enclosures, but my Nhandhu tripepii is the one I check most on my “jailer rounds.” She’s in a home organizer type tub which I’ve seen her climbing all over the lid of, so I use another enclosure to weigh the lid down, seems to be working but she’ll e going into a tarantula crib with a nice live plant soon.
Hi richard I got a 1cm sling H MAC, been Awol for 3 day upto now 😮
I always have a catch cup next to me since my mature male davus pentaloris is always wandering off when i water or offer food.
It happened to me only once by my mistake that a tarantula had escaped lol with a Poechilotiera metallica......but it had not traveled so much I found it 10 cm from the terrarium at the night, I had already taken the ladder to check all the spaces at the top xd...
This video would’ve been great like 3 weeks ago when I had my feather leg escape on me.
I'm just lucky. I fell asleep the other night with one open, H. gabonensis. Why it was open who knows, I fed it already, not like I was going back for more roaches lol. She was there in the morning. Every time I've slipped they've stayed put. Only one that ever got out was my hmac, thought it was buried, saw it on the curtain lol.
Had a centipede escape, if you have time you can pretty much just sit there and wait for it to come out on it's own.
In the 90s i had a Chilean flame hair that escaped she went missing for just about a week, when my sister got up early for work, she woke me shed found her so i got up went down stairs and collard her😂 and put her back in her homestead 🕷🖤🖤🇬🇧 even my sister didn't get scared of her❤
My hamorii got out cheap pos amazon acrylic enclosure, got sick and tired of the scratches polishing off the damn water spots and poo.... so I build my own glass pimp homes many cuts and dollars later on tools and glass hole drills I finally have something I'm truly satisfied with I even build a glass enclosed cabinet as a nursery that is climate controlled there's 2 sections for my dryer babies and a more humid section for tropical species i have a hepa room air filter in there so they are not getting no room air freshener farts they are all happy!
i have a B. hamorii that escaped few times (my bad) but i always find her behind a whiteboard that i kept procrastinating to put on the wall, so now i won't put it up because i don't know where else would i look for my baby
Just a quick hack because you mentioned the duct tape marks:
Try WD 40 to remove the residue, it works for me most of the time 😊
The acrylic ate very nice but I prefer glass.. I find it more durable than the acrylic 1s
I know I know I know!
Catch it 👀
having a centepepede rough the house because If got bitten once by mine.;.... the most pain I have ever feltmu hand got doubled the size in 20 minutes
I lost 1 spider like that. I accidentally left lid open, when i noticed it was too late. 2 cm Brachypelma Auratum, i couldnt find it anywhere. 2 days later i was doing laundry and after i pulled clothes out of the washing machine, i noticed remains of carapace and legs inside. I washed that spider 😢 I should have checked inside of dirty clothes before putting them inside washing machine.
That's so sad.
I do the jailer rounds twice a day 😳
I wish i could get turantula cribs enclosures 😢 im from uk
I have a female A avic and had a male also, when I was new. They were in the plastic zilla ones. I called the male "Horndog" cause he somehow squeezed out of his enclosure, walked past 4 other T enclosures in good glass enclosures and got in with the female..i thought i was losing my mind😂..ill never use those plastic ones again. They were only 2 I used those for. How did he know to go to her enclosure? It was a trip..he never got to mate though luckily. He passed a few months after.
"What To Do When Your Tarantula Escapes!" Leave your (ex) girlfriend's apartment and congratulate yourself on a job well done?
I'm joking
Hi Richard
My gf would say "burn the house down and move to another state". She'd walk. She wouldn't even trust the car in the garage.
Wise woman indeed
Please let me know if I can pay for your knowledge I need help
I'd like to purchase a tarantula but I' m afraid of urticating hair. Are there some species that don't have or kick hairs ?
yes, I have a whole video on urticating hairs that will help you out: th-cam.com/video/ujXFkRIeJQs/w-d-xo.html
Only a couple new worlds, but all old worlds lack urticating hairs. Most beginner tarantulas aren't very kicky. Like curly hairs, or Grammastola pulchra (Brazilian black).
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I always thought it funny that tarantulas won't move for weeks and then that one time you look away with the enclosure open and it's off to the races. They are smarter than people give them credit for.