Tarantulas

The curly hair tarantula is the one experienced keepers recommend in the same breath as the chaco golden knee, and

Tarantula food is live insects, usually crickets or roaches, offered every 3 to 5 days to slings, about weekly to

Caribena versicolor still has a reputation, repeated on older care sheets, as a fragile tarantula that needs a humid, sealed

A tarantula enclosure should be smaller, plainer and better ventilated than almost anything sold for the purpose in a pet

The pink toe tarantula is the beginner arboreal tarantula, and it kills more beginners’ spiders than any other docile species

The chaco golden knee is the tarantula most experienced keepers recommend when someone asks for a first spider, and the

An arboreal tarantula enclosure needs height rather than floor space, a vertical cork bark slab running most of that height,

A terrestrial tarantula enclosure needs more floor space than height, with most of that height filled by substrate. The gap

Old World vs New World tarantulas is the first distinction to understand before buying one. Tarantulas divide into two groups

Tarantula spiderlings are cheap, widely available, and kill more first-time keepers’ confidence than any adult ever will. A sling costs