There's a spider in my thumb

there's a spider in my thumb (sing in the tune of Plants vs Zombies theme: there's a zombie in my lawn)


Itchy - the shy one
Brachypelma Albopilosum (Honduran curly hair tarantula)
prefers to hide under the tunnel I made for her.. sometimes it feels like I'm actually keeping coco peat as my pet
(coco peat - substrate; if fishes have pebbles in the aquarium, tarantulas have substrate in the terrarium)



Stan - the celebrity
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Venezuelan Green Bottle Blue Tarantula)
everybody loves her colors and everybody is asking if they could have her.. sorry guys


Geenie - the temperamental one
Acanthoscurria geniculata (Brazilian White Knee Tarantula)
largest one I have. Devours prey like crazy.. never misses to bite the brush I use to push prey in the terrarium. she's quite shy in the picture, just a day after coming out of a molt
(molting - process where tarantulas shed off their exoskeleton... time when they seem to grow bigger :) )

Chaco - mr goody two shoes

Grammostola Pulchripes (Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula)
never gets on a striking pose, never kicks hairs, almost always walks to my hand whenever I open the enclosure

(kicking hair - tarantulas tend to kick their back part to fling hair to potential predators, hair can be very itchy, similar to the itch you get with "higad". tarantula hair can cause skin irritation also known as T virus)