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Learn how to purchase and care for a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free series of pet care videos from our pet education specialist and spider habitat authority.
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Watch an introduction to raising a pet chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn about the habitat of a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn essential facts about a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn how to choose a pet chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn how to handle a pet chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn what kind of enclosure you need for a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn how to keep your chaco golden knee tarantula the proper warm temperature in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn about the decor needs of a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn what to feed a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn how to feed a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn safety tips for raising a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn how a chaco golden knee tarantula sheds in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn about the sex habits of a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn how to breed a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Learn how to care for a chaco golden knee tarantula in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
Watch an overview of keeping a chaco golden knee tarantula as a pet in this free pet care video from our spider habitat authority.
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....
Brian Kleinman Brian Kleinman, is the owner and operator of Riverside Reptiles, an educational company. He have been working with amphibians and reptiles animals for over twenty years. After graduating with a BA in Biology, he continued with the summer programs at RBNC and was fortunate enough to fill the Animal Curator position at the Science Center of Connecticut (SCOC) in 1999 (now the Children's Museum). For two and a half years he built habitats, and fed and cared for the animals. He taught the children that came in and out of the SCOC all about the animals that resided there. He continue to travel to different parts of the world; expanding my knowledge of the earth's great biodiversity. www.riversidereptiles.com/dkdk
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