Tarantulas don’t need or want large cages – they are used to tight burrows and retreats and can get lost in a large cage, unable to find their food and water. You also don’t need…
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What to Do If You Are Bitten by Your Pet Tarantula
What to Do If You Are Allergic to Your Pet Tarantula
What Is The Ideal Temperature To Keep Tarantulas?
Things You Should Know When Choosing a Tarantula for a Pet
Tips on Housing Tree-Dwellers Tarantulas
Tarantulas as Pets – Captive-Bred Versus Wild-Caught
Sexing a Tarantula from Molted Skins
How to Tell if Your Tarantula Is Molting
How to Take Care of Tarantula Eggs
How to Set Up a Tarantula Cage
How to Recognize a Sick Tarantula
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How to Set Up a Tarantula Cage
How to Recognize a Sick Tarantula
If you buy a small spiderling, you probably are going to have to depend on the experience of the seller or breeder as to whether it is healthy or not. But if you are interested…
How to Keep the Humidity Up in a Tarantula Cage
In nature, tarantulas live in stable environments that they rarely leave voluntarily except at night. A tarantula’s burrow serves to conserve moisture, and the placement of the burrow helps the tarantula regulate its temperature. By…
How to Identify Different Types of Tarantula Spiders
Identifying tarantulas is seldom straightforward; however, as the common species become more readily available as captive-bred specimens, there is less variation to be expected in a single species. Look first at the general appearance of…
How to Determine the Sex of Your Tarantula
Obviously, before you can breed your tarantulas, you need to have a male and a female. Getting a pair together can be tough with most tarantulas for several reasons. One problem is that males are…
How to Help Your Tarantula Deal with Parasites and Pests
Like other animals, tarantulas carry an abundance of intestinal worms and other parasites that are part of their normal gut fauna and probably don’t harm them under unstressful conditions. Even captive-bred tarantulas undoubtedly have a…
How to Care for Tarantula Spiderlings
The care of spiderlings requires multitudes of small containers, usually glass or plastic vials or baby-food jars of about the same size for ease of handling. Fill each jar halfway with moist (but not wet)…
Choosing Substrate for Tarantula Housing
Though many substrates have been tried, the best without doubt is vermiculite. This is an inert mineral product made by heating the mineral mica, and it is widely used in horticulture. The main advantages of…
An Introduction to Widow Spiders
The many species of genus Latrodectus are known as the widow spiders and are best known in theUnited Statesas the black widows. In this country, the common species have very large, rounded abdomens that bear…
An Introduction to Weavers and Silk Spiders
Some of the most beautiful spiders make up the family Araneidae, the orb weavers; they’re noted for building large webs in trees and shrubs and on houses, each web consisting of several circles of silk…