Which of your Tarantula's are you most wary of and why?

I had a close encounter with mine last weekend>

Tarantula: Lasiodora Parahybana (S/Pink Birdeater) [8-10cm]
(Yes it's still a juvie but a agro teen if there ever was one)

[for story purposes will refer to it as a female although it has not been sexed yet]

She moulted about 2 weeks ago, I gave her some time to harden up and noticed she started coming out more frequently.Friday past I fed her a nice size adult cricket which was attacked like it was the first bit of food seen in a month...and come to think of it the last recorded feeding for her was 30TH July so it was :lol:

On Saturday I noticed the cricket remains near the opening of her cave, I thought she would push it out overnight like most of my T's do. Sunday I checked again and the remains were unmoved so I decided to get them out.Usually I use a nice long pair of Exo Terra 20CM tongs. I had been doing maintenance on my other T's enclosures earlier and was still pondering why my B/boehmei seems to spend most of it's time on the glass since none of my other T's have issues with my substrate [Eco-earth coco fibre] and temps / humidity are normal.

So with that thought in my mind I subconsciously made the decision to lift up her cave hide :igiveup: to remove the cricket remains instead of just pulling them out with the tongs. Then it dawned on me...there's no spider in this tank...but I am holding the hide. At that moment she darted out from under the cave hide did a 360 on my hand and back into the hide. . Fighting the urge to just let go of the hide I started lowering it back into the tank at which point she darted out again about a CM from my fingers, front legs rearing up and I thought this is it, she was going to tag me good and solid. I got the cave hide back into the tank and she promptly moved off it onto the glass which I then had to make a mad dash to get the lid.

She spent Sunday evening on the glass glaring at me :chainsaw: .

As a sidenote none of my T's have bitten me(yet). Although I've handled a few adult T's of friends I don't make it a habit of picking mine up as I would rather not risk the many ways they could get hurt.

I'm sure we all have the one T we are extra cautious of

My Stromatopelma calceatum (Featherleg Baboon) for shaw!!! Why? Well besides being one of the most dangerous tarantulas in the world, reputably, they are highly highly aggressive and are very fast and also pack a hell of a bite and their venom has a significant impact on a human(ask Cascade)

So here my girl, shes 17cm or so and scares the sh1t outta me

Our P.cancerides Female (Haitian Brown).

Rehoused her about 2 weeks ago. She kept attacking the plastic container I used for the rehousing. It was nerve wrecking

I know for a fact she'll tag me one day ..... :blink:

There is a couple of them that really gets me sweating when working in their enclosures but the one that wins would be my P. cambridgei.

The reason I am saying this is because both times I rehoused it, it decided to make a run for it. Have to say it is as fast as lightning!

The positive thing is that I have learnt a lot from rehousing it, seeing that it was my first arboreal.

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I'm pretty scared of my calceatum, for reasons that Curt already stated However I am most afraid of my 20cm H. minax. Wow! When she's out the burrow just sitting there, open the lid, doesn't move, put the tongs near her to get a bolus, bam, bites, no warning no nothing, just bites. Also she is soooo fast for a big T very scared, so one of the Ts i just let be. If I ever find a male and she has an egg sack, I have no idea how I am going to get the egg sack away from her.

T-rad wrote: ...of my 20cm H. minax.

20cm?
Pictures or it didn't happen.