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Marcella Gail
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A picture of Tuna the psalmopoeus victori today. She turned out to be both gorgeous and female!
A fuzzy tarantula sitting on some cork bark eating a roach. Front of the tarantula is black and the back is a dark orangish red. All of her colors are deep and Rich looking. She is sitting in a slightly alert position, bent in just a tad to protect the food that she is eating
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Video of me unboxing a little psalmopoeus victori (Darth Maul tarantula) named Tuna three years ago. (All my tarantulas are named after animal species or plant species. The first letter of their name tells me their genus.)
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Pretty phormictopus cancerides tarantula allowed me to take exactly one photo before she took off.
The carapace and abdomen of a brown tarantula with red gold highlights streaking her setae. She is sitting in a relatively relaxed position and the photo shows some of her bent knees
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Anybody else still jumpscare, even after years of keeping tarantulas, when they find a discarded leggie dumped in the water dish?

The AMAZING news is that this poecilotheria ornata molted 6 days after her potential/hopeful mate molted into maturity!

No pics of spider as she's resting.
A water dish with the leg of a tarantula molt dumped in the water. Tarantulas often throw out their trash into their water dishes. Her molt is a few inches away, off frame in this picture. I guess she was tired and didn't quite make it to the trash bin with the whole thing.
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I hope it just registers with him as a fever dream!

Gertude here had to go to the vet in August. She's only just now, in November, allowing me to pet her again. The lady holds a grudge.
A tabby cat lying on a blue mat on a stainless steel veterinarian's table. The cat is glaring into the camera, plotting revenge.
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Juvenile female phlogiellus johnreyzaloi tarantula eating a hornworm. I was really excited to get this spider last weekend!
A brown spider with her front half poking out of a hole and eating a hornworm. The spiders eyes are visible, as is one fang. The photo is taken through several sheets of webbing that the spider has laid down
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Little brachypelma boehmei tarantula boy got a meal so he launched into 4x4 mode, where he lifts his body high up, presumably to keep the food from running off.
A small, fuzzy tarantula with an orange carapace, a black abdomen and orange and black banded legs lifted up as much as he can reach with each foot on tiptoe. He holds the meal he is eating in his fangs. he's playing a bit of a dangerous game in that he's not holding the food to his face with his pedipalps, but I suppose he knows his business.
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Find the baby tarantula, insane mode.

I got a baby aphonopelma hentzi as a freebie.

Pic 1: The ridiculously large 4x4 inch enclosure the spider came in

Pic 2: Their new home, still a bit too large. LEGO brick water dish for scale.
A 4x4 sandwhich container full of dirt with a tiny, tiny pink spider at the very top right of the photo at the edge of the dirt A small condiment cup full of dirt, a round single LEGO brick and a tiny pink spider smaller than the LEGO brick in the center toward the left and top
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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She loves me lol

pterinochilus murinus expressing displeasure about... checks notes... being fed
A bright orange tarantula threat displaying with her front legs up and her fangs out and deployed, ready for action. She is sitting on some dirt and fake plants.
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Chatted w someone who wanted to buy my spider. Talked about housing and feeding and care. Everything sounded OK until they mentioned they wanted to get a spider to secretly hold and pull out to scare family members.

Nope. No sale, ever.

This girl is not a prop. She's a whole ass animal.
An orange and black fuzzy tarantula. Her abdomen, her paws and the first parts of her legs are black. The middle portions of her legs and her carapace are bright orange. She is sitting in a relatively relaxed position with her legs splayed pretty wide on some dirt and a piece of Moss
November 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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This is my genic, btw. They are bootylicious, aren't they?
A brown and orange spider with orange and white striped legs and a giant booty sitting on some dirt and eating a cricket.
October 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I've had this orphnaecus sp. quezon blue tarantula since she was a little speck. Here's a picture of her 5 years ago and another one today. Same size deli cup for scale in both pics.

(She subscribes to the If-I-Can't-See-You-You-Can't-See-Me club.)
A deli cup full of dirt and in the midst one tiny little pinkish grey tarantula about the size of a shelled sunflower seed. She is sitting with her little feet kind of just splayed out in random directions. A smooth, silky looking chocolate brown tarantula with a cocoa-colored carapace sitting on a giant sheet of webbing. Her abdomen and three back feet are resting in a webbed-over deli cup and the rest of her legs are scrunched up covering her eyes. She is larger than the deli cup, which is the same size as the cup in the first picture.
October 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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He looks innocent, but it is a front.
The face shoulders and front paws of a brown black and white tabby cat with yellow green eyes and a little pink and black nose. The cat is resting on the floor looking upward away from the camera with soft dewy eyes. If you didn't know better you would think he was thinking about how much he loves everyone in the world. However he is planning his next crime.
October 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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A sense of her size. She's still a young lady, not fully grown, but she's getting there! (Poeceilotheria metallica tarantula underbelly)
A woman's hand next resting against acrylic next to a large spider. The spider is slightly smaller than the hand.
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Look at the badonkadonk on this poecilotheria metallica tarantula!

Caught her out sitting funny at the top of her cork bark. Of course when I started taking photos, she slowly walked away.

I haven't enhanced the colors. Blue is her signature color.
A side view of a black, white, blue and yellow tarantula sitting on the side of an acrylic enclosure and showing off her gigantically fat abdomen. She does not miss meals. A side view of a large blue, yellow gray and black tarantula sitting with carapace resting on a piece of corkbark and pedipalps just kind of flung over the top. A handful of back legs are holding her up
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Every morning Nerf and I sit for about 30 minutes and just hold hands. Best part of the day, tbh.
A black cat lying on a pillow with one of his paws resting on a hand. The cat's eyes are half open and his claws are partially deployed as he is making air biscuits. A black cat lying on a pillow holding a person's hand between his two front paws. The cat is looking lazily up toward the camera.
September 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A very pretty boy. Poecilotheria striata subadult male.
A tan brown and black tarantula stretched out on the side of a large piece of cork bark the exact same colors. The spider blends in well.
September 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Tarantulas are not sentimental folk. My ornithoctonus aureotibialis needed some construction material for a tunnel she was making, so she used her old molted off face. (It is the oval structure on the top right of this photo. You can see the eye holes at the very top.)
The entrance to a burrow paved in webbing, leaves, moss and a cast off tarantula carapace.
September 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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My beautiful girl just molted again! Tliltocatl vagans female, approximately 5 years old. Here's a photo of her sitting on a spoon when she first came home and a photo of her next to the same spoon today. (I had to sneak it in SO carefully so as not to disturb her, as she only molted 2 days ago)
A small baby spider sitting on a spoon. The spider is approximately the size of a single Capt'n Crunch cereal nugget. A large black and red tarantula sitting next to her molt on one side and the same spoon that was in her newborn photo. Now, her abdomen and carapace are larger than the bowl of the spoon.
September 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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For no particular reason, here's a photo of a gravid loxosceles reclusa (brown recluse) that shows the trademark 6-eye pattern and fiddle shape on the carapace.
A closeup photo of a brown recluse spider with a very swollen abdomen. She has three pairs of eyes in the front of her carapace, all arranged inside a fiddle-shaped darker brown marking. She is sitting in a fairly relaxed stance and one of her pedipalps is resting gently on the ground.
September 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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I honestly love the freebies the best! (Don't tell my pokeys.) My favorite is a gorgeous psalmopoeus cambridgei. Her name is Taz and she's the BEST! This is a photo of her from a couple years ago.
A greenish brown long-legged tarantula looking directly toward the camera while munching on a roach that is barely visible under her fangs. Her pedipalps are tucked under her, supporting the food item.
September 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Cropped but otherwise unedited photos of a lasiocyano sazimai tarantula. First photo is in normal room light, second photo is what she looks like when you shine a flashlight on her.

Bluey!
A black tarantula with a rust red abdomen facing slightly to the left of the camera. The image shows seven of her legs, her carapace, fangs and pedipalps. A blue and black tarantula with a rust red abdomen facing slightly to the left of the camera. The image shows seven of her legs, her carapace, fangs and pedipalps. Every part besides the abdomen shows an iridescent blue shine.
September 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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If you keep tarantulas you know that somebody is always pawning off an extra tliltocatl albopilosus, much like zucchini in late summer. This little spider was pressed into my hand as I walked past someone I knew at a reptile show.

Anyway, I'm pleased as punch to find out that she's a girl!
A small black and brown very fuzzy tarantula with one paw dipped into a water dish. The tarantula is sitting on dirt and underneath a few plastic leaves. The immature spermathecae of a tliltocatl albopilosus tarantula. It looks like an inverted pocket with two darkish red masses
September 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I like this picture of one of my vitalius chromatus tarantulas. I took snapshots of all three sisters today. This lady is named Wolfie.
A white black and red tarantula. Her carapace is white and her abdomen is black with bright red hairs. In this photo you can clearly see the eye clusters on her carapace and little red hairs sprouting up between the sets of eyes that look like the tiniest of mohawks
September 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Well here she is after her molt. The fun part of this picture is her old face shown in the original post is on the ground behind her!

Vitalius chromatus tarantula
A black white and red tarantula with striped knees standing facing the camera. One knee of one leg is covering half her carapace. Her old molted carapace is on the ground behind her.
September 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM