A better shot of Habanero, who has decided that I am acceptable from a distance.

Oh no

The mighty baby Basil defends their water dish

Slurp

I forgot Bluesky exists. Will post spider.

Olive has graced me with her presence today.

Guess who molted?? My most beautiful and difficult to photograph lady

Oooo she's taking a big sip!

*slaps roof of coconut* this bad boy can fit one tarantula in it

I'm. Not sure why we need to do this.

Thinking about building a second web tunnel

This is late, but Basil had a new year, new molt

Orange Zest is looking over her domain.

Cleaned up this nice little exo terra enclosure that will one day be a great home for another arboreal T. I quite like these but they don't have the ventilation I typically want for a C versicolor. Will figure out something awesome to put in it.

My absolute STAR Debbie Hairy

Why are you like this Cinnamon

Don't you do it you little shit

Little feets

I caved... and now I have my first jumping spider from a local breeder. She is gorgeous. P regius. Little baby still

Olive in her web cave

I found the CTA holiday train on accident

Bald ass

When will my reflection show who I am inside???

Debbie looked like she was death curling from inside her coconut, frantically I checked on her with some water in a dropper prepared in case of dehydration. Lifted her coconut and she springs right up and threat poses. Well, at least she's fine... Thanks Deborah.

Brought their prey to their little web nest

Hoooo it's cold out

Saffron looks like she's gonna molt soon

Cayenne eating a roach

Got some great photos of Cayenne. Exhaled. They fled back into their burrow.

Checking on water dishes and Cayenne made an appearance! They just molted so looking a little skinny but will be getting a nice roach Saturday.

Debbie has figured out her coconut.

Thankful for all my followers. Thank you for loving the animals that so many people are afraid of. Thank you for those who showed me empathy during Sunflower's passing. Thank you for those who simply enjoy my little critters. 💓💓💓

Mini Cinnamon is rarely out and the battery in my real camera betrayed me. Here they are anyways with my phone camera.

I negotiated the price of a C versicolor with a local breeder so bad that he talked MY offer down. I failed some kind of DND skill check but I'm glad he's ethical enough to be like "hey that's a bit much for this species honestly"

This is not how I intended for your hide to be used but whatever is comfortable I guess

I thought Cayenne was in a partial death curl and went to check on them to see if they were dehydrated. Not dehydrated. Very healthy. And very angry. Topped off the water dish anyways and said sorry

Cayenne molted :)

Had a very normal morning. A presumed dead (captive bred) Turkish roach made an appearance in my kitchen. I'd dropped it as a baby when feeding spiderlings. A very hungry tarantula helped me get rid of it.

No one tells you how to prepare for a Turkish roach appearing in your kitchen that was presumed dead when you accidentally dropped it 6 months ago

Peppercorn has better contrast in dark lighting

Debbie Hairy remains my most photogenic creature

Slipped on a patch of ice and bruised my knee pretty bad. Doesn't seem to be serious but don't use your knee to break your fall fellas

Good afternoon, Chicago

Me: I currently have 8 tarantulas People who don't have tarantulas: You have 8??? That's so many wtf??? How do you have room for all them? How do you have time to take care of all them? People who have tarantulas: Only 8? What are you getting next, I lost count after 43.

I always get so anxious raising teeny tiny little spiderlings. Cinnamon is almost ready to start accepting the smallest live dubia roaches I have but just needs to get a little bit bigger first. Thankfully they've taken to pre-killed roaches well!

Basil, my little GBB

Working on some pinnings of ethically sourced bugs. Blue weevil and jewel beetle

Got a new very bright light for photos and had to test it with Debbie Hairy, my most photogenic lady.

Feeding day is always fun because it just becomes spider WrestleMania

Absolutely incredible that we can still discover new species of tarantulas in North America. A jacobii was just discovered in the Arizona' Sky Islands in August. Really gorgeous animals too! www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...