5 Inverts I DO NOT Recommend and WHY.
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trapdoor feeding videos are fun id love to see one as an addition to your channel
I'll thumbs up this video for the 5+yr old clip of Petko in one of the old Dark Dens. Thanks for remaining an OG collab for our beloved Petko [No, stop calling him Petco you stupid americans. Oh wait.. I'm a stupid american too..... Anyways. Unlike the spelling of the store, his name is not PETCO!]
It’s cute
What is the species of tarantula you suggested at the end of video please? thank you
I read the title as “introverts” instead of “inverts” and I was so confused for a second 😂
😂😂😂😂 same
me too 😂👍
🤣😂😂... I'm not EVEN going to say what I heard!🤣😂.. and I'm not joking.
There's just some people that you cant mess with.
As an introvert I can confirm, we do not like to be recommended...
Before watching your videos I, like most people who dont understand, used to kill spiders that would come into my house (My wife has arachnophobia). But since I have been watching your videos I feel bad for the little guys and can not bring myself to kill them anymore. I just find a way to scoop them up and take them outside now. Thank you for making me have a better understanding of these cute little fellas.
I keep my camels in a 55 gal...and they love it. 2 important things to remember, their natural lifespan is super short...hovering around a year. And, the Solifuges breath through a tracheal system, unlike true spiders. So good airflow seemed important when I started keeping them. I remove and cut the side panels of a 55 rimless, then re-silicone them. My longest camel was about 9 months. That's about what you can expect.
I was going to say something like this. They move, then eat, they move, they eat, they mate, they die. Short life span sounds better 🤭
Great info on camel spiders. My Egyptian camel spiders usually live about 6 or 7 months. But I've had a small (1.5 inch long) Arizona camel spider live a little over a year. That long-lived camel spider rarely ate, pushed a lot of sand around, and was often a pet hole staying underground for more than a month at a time.
When I think of trap door spiders all I can think of is Jack Sparrow yelling about his jar of dirt.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 this is indeed the exact experience of keeping a trapdoor spider....
@@shadowynne it's a very impressive jar of dirt though.
Me too!! Hahaha
I like that you also gave a good substitute option.
I actually really enjoy keeping centipedes, but I’m with you 100% on trap door spiders. I’ve kept 6 and only ever saw one eat once. I put them in an enclosure and then worry they’re dying for 6 months before digging them up to either find them very pissed off or dead, rinse and repeat. Not enough space in my bug room to justify another. Great video Kat!
I've wanted a T seladonia for a bit because of how beautiful it is but couldn't justify the price tag. Thanks for sharing an alternate!
100% agree on T Seledonia, that was my hardest loss. A week after I picked them up from the local show, it passed.
dude that f-ing sucks. im so sorry
You literally KILLED me when you put T. Seladonia on this list…as #1 at that! Omg! I actually have fern & pixie’s sac mate, Milenko, he (or she) is my heart & soul! I’ve actually kept a pretty detailed note collection on my phone of care, behaviors I’ve noticed, feedings, etc that I’ve been keeping on my phone & I copy and paste it on arachnoboards from time to time. I will have had Milenko for 2 years in August & I can’t believe how fast time has gone by! With all this being said….did the well started one that Tom sent you pass away too? Did I miss that in a video or did you not mention it? I’m super curious. Anyway, I agree the price tag is high, but I wanted mine really bad & I just feel blessed that Milenko has done so well. Matter of fact, right now he (or she) is doing its “hang outside the trap” period right now & there was an accidental handle the other day. Those do not happen often, but I love it when they do. It really makes me realize how gentle & fragile they really are.
do you have videos i can watch of brazil jewel. people dont post after just unboxing
Thanks for this list! The only thing I keep on this list is actually an “instead of” inverts is the millipede! Agree wholeheartedly with them, I love my bumblebees and I’ll be onto the bigger ones soon!
I know i’ve commented a few times on your channel Kat, but i actually just want to praise how you articulated yourself, especially here on this video, not only were you giving reasons why these creatures aren’t easy to keep/not for everyone, you were humble and understanding of people and breeders that have a passion in these particular species. It’s funny because i’m terrified of spiders (i’m sure i’ve mentioned lol) and i actually only own a Bengal cat, but i love your videos and watching all your pets. Your honesty and respectfulness towards others is refreshing and touching🖤
Big love from the UK🇬🇧
Dying…to party!! 💃
*cry* that’s too bad about the T seladonia, I was working up to one. Great tips, tho! Good things to know. 💕
I really appreciate the feedback on trap doors. Ever since I saw an unboxing you did with one I was wanting one because I thought it would be fun to see it open it’s trapdoor to get food but it would just look like a planted terrarium to guests so they wouldn’t freak out about there being a spider around. But I don’t want to have to worry if it’s dead or alive down there if it stops coming up for food & that’s really good advice to consider while I decide if I’d like to get one or not
Any tips for someone absolutely terrified but at the same time fascinated by spiders? I just tend to live vicariously through channels like this lol! I am terrified of spiders but more so of centipedes, every once and a while when it rains I'll get a house centipede in my bathroom (Western NY, semi rural area) and literally get so freaked out I can't sleep for the rest of the night haha!! Closest I've come to getting over my fear was holding a small tarantula at a reptile show, I also held a tailless whip scorpion (which are absolutely terrifying looking but harmless lol) Either way Love the channel Kat!
Nicely thought out, Kat. Thank you! 😍🕷🕸
Love that you gave substitutes, very smart!
I grew up in South Africa and the African millipede was my favourite bug! I used to go looking for them and I would spend hours just hanging with them and having them crawl up my arms. They were everywhere where I lived. We call them Shongololos which is apparently derived from the Zulu word meaning to roll up. I think… anyway, I just really flippin’ miss them and I wish I could keep them but I live in New Zealand now so it’s a little tricky 😞 I spent so many childhood hours digging around for creepy crawlies in the garden. Oddly enough though, I have never liked centipedes. They creep me out a bit. Shifty bastards 😱
Centipedes are tricky mainly because they are a underground insect. The only time you know something happens when your feeder disappears or dies on the surface.
Not that I disagree, but centipedes aren’t insects.
@@yoyofrutti9238what classify's an insect? Is it considered a bug still? 😂 sry if that's a dumb question and I'm sure "bug" isn't a scientific term anyways so it probably doesn't matter one way or another, I just always thought of them as a "type" of ...buggy critter. 😅🤷🏼♀️
@@TheKatarinaGiselle All insects have 6 legs and a body that is devided in 3 (head, thorax and abdomen). Bug is just a term for any invertabrae with an exosceleton, I guess. Critters are small animals usually mammals or birds, but you could also argue that reptiles and amphibians and such are too.
@@yoyofrutti9238 thanks!
Well actually (lol it’s gonna be one of these threads where someone new will just keep popping up and start with “well actually”) there are “true bugs” (Hemiptera) which are an order within the class Insecta (insect). True bugs have wings and a proboscus (piercing mouthparts). Etymologists will typically only refer to something as a bug if it’s in the order Hemiptera.
I'm happy with my curly hair hehe my dad had a Sydney Funnel Web Spider she terrified me as a kid holy conoly she threat poses and strikes at the tank glass when I passed by to go to school or the kitchen XD
Oh goodness Sydney Funnel web!! That would be scary! I grew up watching for random red back spiders!
55 gallon fish tank for the Camel Spider. Im an Iraq Veteran and I kept one for over a year in a 55 gallon tank in our trailer. Make it like the desert. I let it go when we came home, but it got pretty good size. I never tried it, but it coulda nailed a small lizard.
T seladonias are def not my favorite to raise up. The death is too much of a blow to the heart!
I wanted a T. Seladonia so bad. You can get slings here for about 90€ but as lots of ppl I'm sure I wouldn't be able to keep it alive. Dave from Dave's lil beasties is a keeper and breeder of them and quite successful with it. I'll keep waiting too until they become cheaper and common in the hobby. An Ybyrapora diversipes is also on my list since my heart beats for tree spiders the most ❤
It's a shame about the Camel Spiders. I've always found them fascinating.
Me too 😢
Glad I saw this before getting one. I think they're so neat looking, and just saw a couple black ones at my local invert store.
I'll take Kat's advice and pass on them.
I’m wanting a camel spider so badly, but now I might find something else. Like a tailless whip scorpion!
I have heard camel spiders don't do "well" in captivity due to their life cycle being majority in hibernation and then coming out for a short period to massacre and eat everything nearby. But again to your point, if they're borderline dead most of the year and only come out for a few weeks whats the point of stressing them out by putting them in captivity? This also bums me the heck out bc the fuzzy egyptian sunspiders are so dang cute.
Edit: Also Scolopendra heros sounds like a decent pede species to try. Arid species just seem me proof.
I imagine Camel spiders probably need a larger enclosure maybe a 20 gallon with a night time drop and clear day night. Just going off what we have here in AZ.
big agree prob even larger with heat or something
I agree with #4 a 100%. i was also gifted a Typhochlaena seladonia it seems to be doing good but it makes me nervous.
Great vid Kat ..
My roomie breeds T. seladonias and I can say it's a lot of work and a lot of observing the need of every individual sling. Quite time consuming. She bought a bunch of slings some time ago which were in rough shape and extremely tiny compared to the ones she bred herself. So we suspect they hadn't fed yet and probably were taken from the mom far too early. My roomie only lost one of those, so she seems to have gotten the hang of it. Seladonias are awesome mothers. They nurse quite extensively so she let the slings stay with their moms until they switch of netflix and throw the youngsters out. So far it has worked really good.
To me seladonias are interesting if you keep a bunch of them so there's a chance someone is out and about. Because if they're out they really are something to admire 🥰
I've had situations similar to this, on two occasions people have offered to give me a pet octopus in the past but I have no means of maintaining a cold saltwater aquarium right now that and the potential chaos that could happen, I've never had to worry about any of my spiders growing to 30 feet and 600 pounds or taking a stroll under the door out of curiosity.
"Do u guys ever think about dying" got a sub from me 👍
That's crazy, I have Typhochlaena seladonia, I named mine pixie as well LOL before I even knew you had one named that❤😮😂❤
Camel spiders are cool pets, but yes they don't live very long in captivity, and no one really knows how long in the wild. My longest-lived one was an Arizona camel spider at 14 months, whereas my average Egyptian camel spider lives about 6 or 7 months. They can go through periods of being very active, but they can also be pet holes. Quick Camel Spider Fact: Camel spiders and neither camels, nor spiders 😁
I always see Centipedes as being the "hots" of the invert world. They're basically unhandleable, and incredible escape artists and pack venom that's legitimately dangerous to humans. Centipedes and venomous snakes fall firmly into the category of animals I would never attempt to handle or keep, and I'm fine with handling tarantulas and non-venomous snakes and even have a snake.
I have watched quite a few of your videos, and enjoyed videos of you unboxing and rehoming some of your prize species. I have watched you creating a habitat for species that perhaps shouldn't be kept as pets (black widows, brown recluse). I accept this is your hobby and it brings you joy. Seeing it bring you joy has brought me joy. But...some creatures just are not meant to be kept in captivity.
I agree & ty!
Is it possible to maybe create a trap-door spider burrow up against glass, like they do with ant farms? That way you’d get to see the lil darling and it could still be safe in its hole. Just curious.
I love your plushies so much they're so cute 😭
I have a few spider plushies but they always only have two eyes, which really bugs me.
Anyway!
What a cool informative video, again! Thank you.
Dankie Kat!
Great video
I purposely had two t seladonias, they did great and recently one died post molt. My other one is still alive. The y. Diversipes is easier except when it plays dead and scares me.
My Seledonia has been with me for over a year now and seems to be doing well! I helicopter parented for a bit but now I just leave it alone and it’s fine. Rarely it Mystic eat but they keep getting bigger so food must be getting consumed! It’s so pretty, I love it, wish I got to see it more!
My brother actually keeps camel spiders and he got a lot of advice from a Japanese keeper who kept and breed them successfully in captivity. I guess the secret is yes they do need good amount of heat but also that they go into a hibernation! Many think they are dead but will actually come back alive months later
Would using a terrarium sort of the shape of an ant farm work for trap door spiders? That way you could see them in the hole. Or is that bad for them?
Finally someone who gets it! But seeing how many invertebrates you've kept have you tried Pogonomyrmex badius or Pogonomyrmex occidentalis?
I used to collect tarantulas around 30 years ago. I love them, and all spiders. I had an epiphany one day that while I love these animals so much, I felt that they were "depressed" or unhealthy while living in captivity versus their natural habitat. I guess I didn't know how to do it well back then, but I decided that I would never keep them as pets because that would make me a hypocrite... If you love an animal, you want whatever is best for their little lives, and living in nature is what that is. Thankfully, I never got into exotic birds or something like that...
Hiiii gurl blessings to you and all your animals love ya...😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yes, I think about dying sometime.
you need a red widow!
T.saledonia is my DREAM but I'm a brand new keeper. And I don't feel I have the exp to keep them yet.
Y.diversipes was not even on my radar until now. I shall research
Damn I’m sad I missed the new plushie!
these are so true. saw some t seladonia for sale at a reptile show near me and was like beautiful..... but no thanks lmfao
Hey kat. I have a question . I do keep a few praying mantis and i kept cork barks collected from wild in the enclosure which within few days grew a hairy mold like thing . How to avoid this this and is harmful for the mantis ?
Mold is harmful to most insects. I would recommend you to keep your terrarium less humid. You should spray water sometimes so they can drink. However, it should not stay wet and moldy in there so make holes for air or place a net so air can come in and the mantis does not escape.
informative as always, and the answer is yes, sometimes I think about dying lol
Haha she's funny. I had to pause to see that too. Funny. I too think about it.
You weren’t lucky with your trapdoors.
I see my Liphistius ornatus (2 years old) 0,5second per month, each time I feed her.
It happened she didn’t eat during 2 months, but, when she eats, I always see her.
Seladonia thrive on minimum interference from what Im advised mines done fine this year
13 comment awesome video today Kat you rock and happy Thursday you always inspire me 👍💪💯
Trapdoor is highly venomous. Am i correct?
Hi kat steve from south Australia totally agree centipedes no way we have them everywhere here plus live close to the murray River been biiten few times not recommended they dont let go so keep few different species of old worlds yep old worlds and not as bad as ya think luv them thankyou for gr8 channel still learn things thankyou
this is too sad… i was thinking of caring for a trapdoor spider because they are so gorgeous and impressive but i didn’t stop once to think about how trapdoor spiders are burrowing animals…
I want an African Giant Millipede so bad, but you can’t keep them as pets where I am in Canada 😢 I held one at a butterfly conservatory though, they’re so awesome 😄
Great video, I'm turned off of T seladonia because I paid $205 and never got. I was one of ppl screwed over by Dustin from simply spiders, lost over 800. 😣
Sorry 😢
@@tarantulakat I'm overwhelmed with 41 so it's ok.
I love camal spiders but won’t own one for the reasons you just went over.
i know very little about camel spiders. maybe try bedding them on sand? kinda makes sense?
I really like your videos, hence why I subscribed! ❤ Are you afraid of spiders? Maybe a little bit?
as far as crabs go from the guy ive known keeping stuff like them successfully most crabs need small tuperwares to live in and otherwise they get stressed and self canibalize and stuff.
Always so bad ass TK
Do you not have trapdoors anymore, I thought you just got some not too long ago
I still have them but I haven’t seen them at all and have no clue if they’re still alive or not
I want a pinned and mounted Brazilian Jewel
I had 3 female seladonia raised from slings, sold all 3 cause u never ever see them once adults lol they stay in their hide 99% of the time
What petstore?
I agree 100 percent 😳😳😳😳
(Trigger warning - this will probably upset people)
okay so, I need to rant and while it has nothing to do with this video it also HAS ALOT to do with this video. So, I have an older sister mid 40s, animal lover, she's the only other "goth" weirdo in my entire family beside myself. So we have bonded a lot over this fact. We often bond more so over our love for animals (mostly strange and unusual verity). Well I had mentioned to her that I plan to find myself a cute little creepy critter like a tarantula or a giant wolf spider but I am waiting until I know I can 100% care for it properly as I am a newbie to this hobby and I know keeping a tarantula isn't the same as caring for my Black Widow (this is going some where I promise). Well, my older sister was like "Yas bish, do it! I love spiders too!" blahblah. WELL, my older sister apparently really liked my idea and purchased herself 2 tarantulas from a local pet shop. Yay good for her right? No. NOPE. NAH. Not at all actually. I had no clue she had went a found herself 2 tarantulas until I went to her house one day and I saw she had this massive aquarium in her living room but nothing seemed to be in it; so I asked "Hey, why do you have that aquarium in your living?" and... she turned around and said "I use to have 2 spiders (tarantulas) but they died"... and the first thing I asked was "You had 2? Like.. in the same aquarium?" and SHE SAID "YES, WHY?" and I paused and nicely asked "Okay.. so did one eat the other?" and she replied "Yes but I didn't think they would because THEY WERE THE SAME KIND OF SPIDER"??? So I said "Okay, so one died because the other ate the other? Right how did the other die?" And she replied "BECAUSE I WAS PICKING IT UP, BUT IT BOLTED AND IT FELL THAN IT DIED"... so I had to explain to my older sister why what she did was horribly wrong. While I explained to her that you CAN NOT house 2 tarantulas in the same enclosure regardless if they are the same species and why SHE SHOULDN'T OF HANDLED HER TARANTULA if she doesn't have to or at least wait until she was more comfortable to do so, her eyes just kind of glazed over and she replied.. "I'm just not getting another they are too much".
I posted this here because I can't rant to anyone else about this due to everyone I know having a huge dislike for anything insect or arachnid, so the next best thing is ranting here I guess.
Wow she did not do any research did she?! Plus the pet shop obviously didn’t inform her properly (or she ignored)! Tarantulas are some of my easier pets once you get the hang of it, I’ve got 63 at the moment.
i could never keep anything with lots of legs and especially moves fast...no no no
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My opinion ONLY!! It looks to me like you have an issue with keeping them moist enough, when they die from a moult, and your tank is bone dry??? Well, there ya go.again, MY OPINION ONLY!!
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Epoch TV specifically if it makes a difference, but I thought you would want to know.
Just stay away from wild caught animals if you're not a breeder... simple as that.
Actually, the main problem with the t. Celadonias might be people trying to take too much care of them and then stressing them out.
Why do you insist on keeping these poor animals in such small spaces? Let them live their lives in their wild. Such selfishness!
I actually have lots of videos explaining proper husbandry on tarantulas and why their enclosures are small, if you’re actually interested in educating yourself.
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You have an African-American Camel spider! I've only seen the Caucasian breed of those creepy ass things!🥶
I have tried keeping camel spiders and they just didn't thrive for me. I've decided not to try again as it seems cruel to keep them if I can't give them what they need. Such a shame because I absolutely love them! 😢
You'd have to be nuts to pay 600 for something the size of a small green pea. Cool channel.
T seladonias Are by far one of the easiest Spiders, I've ever taken care of.
I’m glad that’s been your experience. It seems like people either say they’re the easiest, and some say they’re the hardest 😅
They are actually pretty easy if you know what you’re doing. Keep them just like any avicularia or Caribena versicolor. They like well ventilated and good humidity. Ventilation should always be a priority over humidity never sacrificing one over the other.
I’m so glad to hear some else say how difficult t seladonia are to keep, I’ve had the same experience and the price tag is *ridiculous*
Thank you for proving the community with entertaining yet educational videos for the hobby. Creating content is not easy and we appreciate all you do. We love having fun while learning!
Millipedes are cuter than centipedes anyways 🥰
I just love that you said you helecopter parented your t seladonia 😂
I loved the cut-aways to the interesting moments in the past. Also appreciate the honesty. ❤
We have 20 Seladonias and they are so fun to interact with. They either swat at their food, swarm their food, close their trap door, or they threat pose… it’s a blast
I really appreciate the feedback on trap doors. Ever since I saw an unboxing you did with one I was wanting one because I thought it would be fun to see it open it’s trapdoor to get food but it would just look like a planted terrarium to guests so they wouldn’t freak out about there being a spider around. But I don’t want to have to worry if it’s dead or alive down there if it stops coming up for food & that’s really good advice to consider while I decide if I’d like to get one or not
I had 6 T Seladonia slings that I nurtured and cared for like they were my own babies. ALL 6 DIED 😤😭😭😭 Over £600 down the drain. I was so upset and I will never ever buy a sling again. I’d rather pay triple for a juvie.
Hello, do you know what did they die from? Thank you
I will echo Kat's opinion of T. seladonia. Gorgeous spider, and I have tried to keep them myself and with exactly the same results as is described here. Not eating for reasons unknown, random deaths, bad moults. I now consider them a more "advanced" species to keep properly and apparently I'm not ready yet so with some bad experiences behind me, am ignoring the species.
It’s the first T I bought. Got a versi along with it. August will Be a year since I got them. (And added 6 more) mine been doing great. Versi already in an adult enclosure. It has grown fast. And the seladonia was very small when I got it. And it’s in the 3x3x3 t crib cube with trap door. It never made a trap door in the vial. The vial seemed to stress it
$500??? 🤯 For a spider the size of a grain of rice? Oh Gurl... I'm sorry you lost yours... if YOU can't keep "it" alive, it ain't easy to keep alive PERIOD !!
Those are the babies, adults go for a lot more. they are a trap door spider and need a certain environment to thrive. When they die it's probable because of bad husbandry information.
One of my all time favorite spider is the Red Fang Wonder Spider. So beautiful
We had giant millipedes and giant African snails we looker after at primary school. Years later my daughter started bringing home garden snails for pets. I got her 3 giant snails. She loved them. I love the millipedes too. I love the T seledona's, they are absolutely beautiful, but if they are difficult to keep its best to let them live in the wild.
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Can I just say that your channel has completely changed how I see spiders re: their threat level to me? I wasn't one to squash spiders by default or anything, but I was definitely far more leery of them before than I am now. Just rescued one from the kitchen sink this morning, in fact, lol. So thanks for that! (From me and the spider)
tysm I’m so happy to help 🥹
second, btw hi love youre vids you help me alot in this hobby
5 foot Giant Centipede n Me.
This isn't gonna work let's stop.