Matilda is very cool! I often only get to see spider butts, as they scamper back to their holes.
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Here are two pics of my chilean rose, and one of a VERY cursed jumping spider my boyfriend found on his porch
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I’m totally on love with her. She’s so chill and gentle, she’s the only one of my spiders I ever handle. She’s never so much as kicked hair at me.
She’s only molted twice in the year I’ve had her, but she’s put on some decent size with each molt. I think I’m going to rehouse her this weekend. She hasn’t quite outgrown her current enclosure, but it’s so ugly that I’m sick of looking at it, and she’s big enough now that I think she’ll appreciate the extra space.
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Your rose hair is gorgeous, I just love her!
And that jumping spider is so cool! S/he is already wearing their mask for Halloween! 
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My boyfriend and I actively have started making the face present on his/her abdomen at each other, such a funny little spider to find
And thank you! She is a rescue, and she’s at least 10 years old, but we hope to have many more years with her! She’s gone from being mostly bald and dull to being fuzzy and colorful!
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A rose hair was my very first tarantula, when I had zero idea how to care for them. Despite that, we had a long time together. She was an adult that was a gift. I think I need to replace her with a new one!
Yours is very nice!!
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You absolutely should get a new one!
I never planned to have a T, like EVER. But she was in the same rescue group as my leo and my hermit crabs, and I couldn’t take them and leave her.
Now I’ll always have a T in my home, I can’t imagine not having these fuzzy little friends.
She isn’t super active, but she never hides, so its like she is always there to say hello to. My little brother is uncomfortable with her and won’t feed her, but he talks to her, and my mom is comfortable with tonge feeding and putting her hand in the enclosure to spot clean or fill waters.
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She is wonderful Jennifer! So filled out and fluffy/fuzzy looking! I am so much aT fan it’s ridiculous! I believe I could handle my curly hair and/or my stripe knee but I am still not quite there yet……. I can’t wait to see the new enclosure for Mathilde! 
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@cmills Love those guys! I have not found a Chilean Rose yet but still looking! Yours is beautiful! And that jumper is outrageous! I tried to rescue a spider from my carpet today but before I could put it in an enclosure it escaped out of my hand! . A few months ago I would have stepped on it and then picked it up with a paper towel! 
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Seriously once you keep any spider, you really can’t kill house spiders anymore
I’ll kill anything from the widow family that shows up in the house because I am still wary of those and can’t tell them apart easily as juviniles, but I even catch and release wolf spiders now and I’m allergic to those
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I remember when I was a little kid and my parents described tarantulas to me for the first time. I thought they were making it up, because a giant, fluffy spider seemed to me like it was just too fabulous to be real. I totally love getting to keep them as pets!
My curly hair is a bit of a hair-kicker, but I know lots of people handle theirs, and I think their urticating hairs are not as irritating as some other species. Hopefully yours is more cuddly than mine!
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So which one is it that you handle? Is it the one in your picture? 
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The one I handle is Mathilde, the G. pulchripes (Chaco golden knee), which is the girl in the last pictures I posted.
It’s likely your curly hair would be fine to handle, they can often be quite docile. My curly hair just happens to be a fluffy little drama queen.
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Oh ok! I’m really still not completely convinced that I could actually hold a tarantula! Lol! I don’t think I will be trying any time soon!
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Just found some “bad” inverts, lifted my hermit crabs coconut hut to check for my boy and instead found an entire nest of false widows.
My hermit crab might be dead, I’m not even sure now, I’m going to have to totally disassemble his tank and my Chilean Rose’s tank next door to make sure there aren’t more.
This is super gross for me bc I’ve got genuine PTSD triggers for swarms of things, and ughhhhhh these widow family spiders are so scary
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Oh no how awful! @cmills! Your poor little hermie! I hope you find him soon alive and also I hope the Rose Hair is ok too! What a scary find for sure! 
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The hermit is good! He dug himself a hole and was upset with me for bothering him
Ive found over 5 egg sacs in his tank with guarding mothers, all are being destroyed, any roaming spiders are being destroyed, and I’m knocking down all webs so I can easily see evidence of living spiders.
Based on the carcasses in the webs, they were eating my pillbugs! Downside of a bioactive I guess, you can support lots of life of all kinds, even the dangerous ones.
Phil’s tank (the rose hair) is trickier because she also has webs, but thankfully T webs and cobwebs are very different. No mamas in her tank, just an adolescent which was killed.
I’ve never even SEEN false widows before this! I have no idea where they came from, we haven’t brought in any new plants in ages and this was a massive number of animals!
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Well thank goodness Mr Hermit and Phil are both unharmed! Hopefully you will be able to figure out where those nasty spiders are coming from! 
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Mom and I are freaked, but tbh the silver lining is that we caught the 5 fertile egg sacs before it was quite literally spider apocalypse in here!
And thankfully my leo, who would be most at risk for a fatal bite, is across the room and has no webbing or other evidence present.
I think now its just a game of destroying any webs I see, killing any spiders, and routinely checking the hides!
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@cmills That’s scary, I’m glad you found them before all the egg sacs hatched! I actually rather like false widows (and true widows, for that matter), but even I don’t want them loose in my house. I know that reptiles seem especially affected by false widow venom. We have lots of false widows where I live (like they’re literally everywhere), but the ones around here don’t seem to make their way inside very often. I’ve counted at least a dozen false widows on my back patio recently (and I’m sure there are more I didn’t see), but in the almost 10 years I’ve lived here, I’ve only ever found two inside.
They really must have been drawn in by your isopods! Maybe I should rethink my plans to go bioactive for my tarantulas’ adult enclosures. 
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