Information on Pet Chaco Tarantula

Series Summary

In this free series of pet care videos, our spider expert will introduce you to the dangerous world of the Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula. However, their lives may not be dangerous in the way you are used to thinking of tarantulas: as a horror movie nemesis that threatens to off the hero with just one bite. No, as one of the most docile of the new world tarantula species, the Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula is not much of a threat to humans, though it does spend much of its own life on the edge. If the male approaches the female with romance on his mind, pounding the ground and waving his arms as part of the traditional courtship ritual, and the female does not happen to be in the mood, she kills him. If the female gets bothered or upset when she's pregnant, she eats her own eggs. And these horrors are nothing compared to the fate that awaits one of these nice and friendly tarantulas in the hands of their arch enemy.

The female tarantula hawk wasp has one of the worst deaths imaginable in store for the Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula. First the wasp stings the spider in the abdomen, not killing it, only paralyzing it. Then the wasp drags the spider back to a pre-dug hole, lays an egg on top of spider, buries both egg and spider and leaves. The wasp egg hatches and the young wasp feeds on the still-living spider throughout the larval stage. So adopt a Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula and save it from this horrible end....

Video Transcript

"Hi. Today we are going to talk about the care and requirements of Chaco Golden Kneed Tarantulas. Now trarantulas make fascinating pets, ah, they're great to have, but their not a pet that you always want to take out and handle. They're more of a pet that your just gonna watch and observe. But today we're gonna talk about choosing a tarantula, where to find them, ah, also we are going to discuss handling, if you do have to handle your tranatula, how to do it. the inclosures that they require. Some tranatulas require certain inclosures. they require certain humiditys some prefer drier areas. We are also going to talk about decor. Some tranatulas are arboreal some tarantuals like to climb some are more ground or terrestrail dwellers. We're also going to talk about substrait. As I said before some tarantulas require more humid areas, some require more dry areas. So do certain substraits that your going to want to use to help retain the humidity or help keep it dry. Also food. Taranulas as all spiders are carnivors. They eat a variety of different prey items. We are going to talk about what prey is best suited for your tarantula, especially Chaco Golden Kneed Tarantulas. How to prevent your tarantula from becoming ill. Also shedding and tarantulas. All arthopods including tarantulas have exoskeltons and they shed and they go through a certain phase when they're shedding and how to reconise that phase. Also sexing your tarantula, which isnt the easiest thing to do. Ah, most tarantula experts have a tough time in sexing a tarantula, so we are going to talk a little bit about that as well. Breeding tarantulas becuase if you like having tarantulas and you want to make more tatantulas theres not better way to experince that then to trying to breed your tarantulas."