can you handle a red knee tarantula

[Lukeyk]

and is it easy to keep?

[ChrisBowman]

i have no idea but i wouldt fancy handleing one of them

[Becky]

Easy to keep and considered docile but everyone i've kept has flicked at me and showered me in itchy needle hairs lol

I dont handle my spiders

[jackbeveridge]

you can handle them, however make sure its not often, there is always a risk when holding a tarantula, whether it be biting you or if it falls.

[Lucifus]

You probably could but it depends on the temprement. Some chilie roses are evil incarnate and im sure theres some nice Baboon spiders out there. (bahahahahaha)

Anyway general rule is if you hold your tarantula expect to be bitten. If your going to hold it hold it over a surface and put some padding down underneath in case it drops. A 1-2foot drop can kill a tarantula and i believe after a meter they explode.

From what i know red knees are very easy to keep.

[decembers_spawn]

Handling T's is a general no-no.

If you HAVE to handle them, then a Red-Knee is one of the 'safer' ones

[browner93]

you can but it is not advised.
correct me if i am rong.

Josh

[ferretlad]

B.Smithi ..Mexican Red Knee, is quite easy to keep provided you folllow a good care sheet on heating/substrait and such, If you want a Red Knee to handle.. it might be best looking into getting a Spiderling and bringing it up to being used to getting handled.

[decembers_spawn]

Originally Posted by ferretlad

B.Smithi ..Mexican Red Knee, is quite easy to keep provided you folllow a good care sheet on heating/substrait and such, If you want a Red Knee to handle.. it might be best looking into getting a Spiderling and bringing it up to being used to getting handled.

Spiders don't really have the ability to learn to 'get used' to being handled.

[C_Strike]

Originally Posted by decembers_spawn

Handling T's is a general no-no.

If you HAVE to handle them, then a Red-Knee is one of the 'safer' ones

Why the big nono?
I only agree that you really shouldnt contemplate handling IF you put either your own or the spiders life in jepoardy

If done correctly what detrimental affects are there?
My spiders still eat, they still molt, they still breed. what more can you ask?

As far as i can see, there is nothing whoelly wrong and bad about holding spides.
Most people tell you 'NO!!!!' because they themselves are too afriad of the consequences....
but... consequences being? ...
Those that arent sacared generally say that they dont, or its not recommended... fair enough, it isnt recommended for all.
Iv held Brachypelma, Grammastola, Aphonopelma, Chromatopelma, Theraphosa, Lasiodora, Poecilotheria, Cyriopagopus, Selenocosmia, even macrothele (funnelweb)... never been bitten, never had an aggresive reaction.
Iv had my GBB pull its fangs out and walk them against the palm of my hand whilsit suspended upside down, for added grip, at no point did it decide to try out the new 'substrate' for flavour, lol
If you take even the most possessed spawn of eight legged satan out of its own environment and the personality changes
You just need to appreciate that the spider will take a much longer time working out if your a threat or not.
They are stimulus based, you give them something to react to and they will.
If they feel comfrotable on you, then you dont have a problem.
I have endured some pretty painful things becuase i have had to to avoid a bigger problem, such as having a constant dripping of boiling water on my naked arm whilst carrying a leaking pot in a kitchen for bowt a minute, lol
If you can be confident in your reaction to a bite, and your not scacred of it, then wahts the beef?
Spiders arent incredibly primitve, they have basic learning ability. Try handling a WC OBT compared to a CB one, or even a CB one that is familiar with the scentof flesh. They do react different than if they hadnt everr touched human flesh, they are calmer
they understand threats and non-threats. If you dont pose yourself as a threat then they dont need to react.

As Becky said, Brachys thend to be flicky. Iv yet to have one flick hairs at my when its being handled. The same spider will shower me with hair if i disturb it in its own environment tho