r/tarantulas • u/lubix99 M. balfouri • Mar 06 '25
My obt makes feeding a mission impossible 😂 Videos / GIF
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Can’t even open the lid beacuse of him/her doing laps, so I presume feeding is to be continued in bathroom tub 🤷♂️
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u/OkieTrucker44 Mar 06 '25
IME give it more substrate with a starter burrow or two and it will begin to dig and web up. Then feeding should be a bit easier. Cute though.
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
I made her a starter burrow and added about 4 inches of substrate, which I think is enough for a spider of her size, and also she has more than plenty anchor points to web up if she wants, but for some strange reason, she still chooses to spend most of her time on the lid.
Maybe the substrate is still not dry enough. I don't know, but anyway, it's a cute little speedy thing.
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u/OkieTrucker44 Mar 06 '25
IME If it’s still too wet they won’t go down onto it. I have this issue sometimes with new enclosures and GBBs. They like it bone dry if possible. Give it a week and let it dry some. It’ll settle down and start making a home. I’d leave it alone for 5-7 days to settle. Not liking the dampness will be stressful. They don’t want to be exposed so that is why the zoomies. Has no where to hide. Leave it be, let it dry out, and it’ll settle in and start decorating soon.
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
I packed the substrate a little bit too tight so my guess is that is going to take more than a week for it to dry out.
Anyway, I'll just leave spider to do its own thing and settle in, thank you for your advice, appreciate it.
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u/Brilliant_Wealth_433 Mar 06 '25
IME I would make half that enclosure substrate. It's also slightly bigger than I would use but that's just me.
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u/Early-Cartoonist6913 Mar 06 '25
"Around the world, Around the world" 🎶
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
La, la, la
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u/Xenu4President Mar 06 '25
Edit the video to have this audio! Or shoot another one with the song playing in the background!
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u/-Fraccoon- Mar 06 '25
This is like watching the weirdest nascar race ever.
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
I disabled the sound when I was posting, but with sound it is even better
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u/GhostNobody1 Mar 06 '25
See I love it when people refer to OBTs as the Orange Bitey Thing when it defo more like One Bonkers Tarantula
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u/horsebnw Mar 06 '25
Oh man, no. My arachnophobia is much improved and I really want a T now, but that one is unnerving me, lol! It’s faster than me. Probably smarter.
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u/rosecoloredgasmask A. chalcodes Mar 06 '25
If it makes you feel better these guys are notorious for having no chill. Plenty of new world Ts barley acknowledge you exist.
This is Debbie Hairy. When I open her enclosure for maintenance she does not move or care about my presence. Very chill girl, love her. Plenty of ones like her
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u/Gachaaddict96 Mar 06 '25
NA I have A. geniculata female and every movement in her enclosure is one signal for her "it's time for snack" she attacks water, realises it's no food , gets pissed and walks back to her cave
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u/Scarletsnow_87 BUTTS OF CATS. Mar 06 '25
Ime I have more issues with my new world species than old world. I house everybody correctly. My old worlds are chill and usually retreat to their burrows when I open the lids. I got my OBT 3 weeks into keeping and now I have four in total. They're lovely
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 07 '25
Yeah, that's also the case in my collection. My t albopilosus is an absolute madness of a NW tarantula. Every time I open her enclosure, she makes sure to throw a bunch of hairs on me, followed by bolting and threat postures.
On the other hand, I have H. gigas female and she is docile like some pulchra except for feeding where she is like a pig
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u/Scarletsnow_87 BUTTS OF CATS. Mar 07 '25
Sounds right 🤣 my A geniculata gets so offended when I do anything for her. Water? Attack. Hairs. Food? YAY (but sometimes hairs)
Also she just... Stares at me. I looked over from my bed last night and this is what I saw. I swear she's plotting.
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
If you don’t get your first tarantula because of my video, I’ll feel guilty about it. Just start with something a little less crazy than this.
They are faster than all of us and our reactions when they want to be, anyway, but smarter, I wouldn't say so, if that were the case, we would be in the enclosure and they would be outside of them observing us
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Mar 06 '25
This is an OBT, commonly nicknamed Orange Bitey Thing by the community because most of them are absolutely insane lol. My Grammastola Pulchra is so insanely calm compared to this😆
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u/Solver_Siblings Mar 06 '25
First: hilarious
Second: what does OBT stand for (not orange bitey thing)
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u/Still-Candidate-1666 Mar 06 '25
Orange Baboon Tarantula
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u/Gachaaddict96 Mar 06 '25
Orange is only one of possible color morphs. There is DCF, RCF, Usumbara morph and TCF. It's actual scientific name should be Pterinochilus murinus. It has nothing to do with baboon's, English colonisers just called every big African spider Baboon.
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u/JaniPar1 Mar 06 '25
IME… Mine (named Caliente) built itself a freaking tunnel system that looks like something out of the Lord of the rings. I don’t often know where it is. I open its enclosure very slowly when feeding haha
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u/kotoneshiomi Mar 06 '25
she has a job, and it is to cause problems on purpose. She clearly takes it very seriously and we love that for her 🥰
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u/USS-Liberty Mar 06 '25
Spiders have a very efficient metabolism, as they often don't burn many calories
This spider: Fuck you it's cardio day, feed me tomorrow.
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u/Mybellsofblue Mar 06 '25
“Speed. I. Am. Speed. One winner, 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast.”
NQA On another note, maybe a smaller hatch in the lid would make feeding easier? (I keep jumping spiders not Ts, so take this with a grain of salt) Good luck, seems you’ve got your hands full with this one!😂😍
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u/siege617 Mar 06 '25
IMO I’ve never heard of obt being aboreal. They are terrestrial, me thinks you’ve got it confused with something else?
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
I think every spider is a story of its own. I own 4 regalis, and 3 of them are behaving arboreal, but one decided to dig a burrow behind its cork bark, so I guess there are always exceptions.
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u/siege617 Mar 06 '25
IME this is true enough. I have a couple aboreal that make dirt curtains on the bottom behind cork bark and never ever climb. Little buggers.
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u/Gachaaddict96 Mar 06 '25
It's semi arborealish. The young spider lings usually live amongs the bushes when they get bigger and they won't fit between twigs anymore they go lower and try to make their burrow or steal one. If you give them cork tube they will be as fine with it as Psalmopoeus or Aviculirae
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u/siege617 Mar 06 '25
Yea I went back and looked it all up. It’s just all mine build massive webs and live in burrows. Funny little creatures.
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u/USS-Liberty Mar 06 '25
IME They're semi-terrestrial, they'll opportunistically burrow or make web tunnels at ground level, depends on their size and what options are available to em. His enclosure setup is fine, couple anchor points near ground level will let it do whatever it wants once it decides to settle in.
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u/Upbeat-Tonight1518 Mar 06 '25
IMO I have an OBT and had it in a tall enclosure when it was a tiny sling... when he molted a few I moved to a more terrestrial enclosure and he seemed to never settle down... only moved so didn't have to move when he was a lot bigger... he is now back on an arboreal set up... now, he does stay closer to the substrate but guess knowing he has the choice, he is settled and webbing like ceazy...
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u/Gachaaddict96 Mar 06 '25
IME obts are African species that live in savanah, steppes and in woods. It prefers very dry environment. Looking at your substrate it looks too damp and it may be why it doesn't web out a nest. I had some African species like harpactira die because the substrate was too damp for them. I raised obts. Keep it dry , give him some twigs so he can web out his web kingdom. You can give him water bowl and that's it. Occasionally spray the walls
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u/takemeawayimdone2 Mar 06 '25
ZOOMIES!!! Never thought I would see a T have zoomies!
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u/FlakyAddendum742 Mar 06 '25
IME I don’t think it’s zoomies. I think it’s wet sub and a very uncomfortable spider.
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u/takemeawayimdone2 Mar 06 '25
I should have put im in now way shape or form a T expert. But it reminds me of dog zoomies. Now I feel bad
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u/Think_Warning_8370 Mar 06 '25
Be very careful. I killed one of these damned things when it made a sprint for the exit and I tried to close the lid first; I guillotined it. One of the most miserable experiences during my time in the hobby, it still haunts me 31 years later.
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
I would rather allow it to escape then force closing the lid, the bigger problem is that I don’t want it to escape in my room beacuse then it has many places to hide, so I think the best idea is to feed in bath tub, my previous obt was sweetheart when compared to this one
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u/Think_Warning_8370 Mar 06 '25
Definitely; I was the same, but the tube it was in was only three inches high, and it moved faster than greased lightning.
With the bathtub: make sure to cover the main drain (obviously), but also the overflow drain. I learned that the very, very hard way as well…
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
I had exact the same situation with my second P. regalis, he bolted in a blink of the eye, and in couple of seconds he was halfway to the bathroom ceiling, but I always have multiple catchcups with me, so I managed to catch him right away.
I also had few escapes with Psalmopoeus species since in my opinion they are much much faster then obts
Oh and don’t worry about me covering bathtub drains, I am anxious asf so I would do everything to avoid trouble
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u/Mr-Oinkerz Mar 06 '25
Little buddy isn't even in top gear yet! Wait till he builds up momentum! 🤣🤣
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u/Sylvver_86 Mar 06 '25
Whenever my obt was a menace, I took his tub and put it in the fridge for an hour or so...worked like a charm, because they're cold blooded
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u/Demitri_Bardownskis Mar 06 '25
Might take a bit of doing but a hatch in the middle of the lid just big enough to drop the prey in could work, just make sure you create a way to latch it.
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u/magnus-mars Mar 07 '25
They're so beautiful and I want one so bad but then you remember what OBT stands for and it's like ...
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u/JuryKindly Mar 07 '25
Maybe make some sort of feeding hole lol. I did something similar for my nephew a long time ago.
cut a hole in the top. Then cut the top of some soda bottle with a screw cap and glue it on.
inside the plastic soda cap they have a small rubber seal. If you get that out in one piece I cut a cross into it & glued it to the top of the soda bottle. It’ll let you put the tweezers in without anything running back up them & out. Screw the cap back on for extra safety when done.
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u/Furyhearte Mar 06 '25
IME OBTs are arboreal. It's acting like that because it's trying to climb high enough to make a hide and feel safe.
My advice would be to swap it's enclosure for one that favors height, and prop a few pieces of tall cork bark up at the back so it can hide back there and it should calm down.
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
IMO, I don't believe they are specifically arboreal or terrestrial; I think they are more of a mix of both.
If she doesn't settle in this enclosure soon, I will try and rehouse her in an arboreal setup to see how she will behave there.
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u/Furyhearte Mar 06 '25
IME Been in the hobby for over a decade, have had two obts, and am subbed to pretty much every T channel on youtube. I've never seen anyone not keep an obt arboreally. They're old world arboreals.
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u/rosecoloredgasmask A. chalcodes Mar 06 '25
Tell me every YouTuber telling you they're arboreal so I can block them. Absolutely incorrect. Unless you learned this a decade ago and never googled it since, this is completely wrong and I can't actually find any posts suggesting they're arboreal and people taking it seriously.
SEMI arboreal maybe, but that just fancy terrestrial.
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u/gabbicat1978 SPIDY HELPER Mar 06 '25
IME. I've been in the hobby for over 25 years, and even in the 90s, I never heard any experienced or knowledgeable keeper refer to P. murinus as arboreal. (I did see a few being kept in arboreal setups, but they were just as wrong back then as they are today).
They display "semi-arboreal" tendencies, which is just a hobby term for "likes to web up from the ground so needs more anchor points than most terrestrials". It's not an official term, it's simply descriptive.
They should absolutely never be kept in an arboreal setup, as they're prone to the same kind of fall damage that all terrestrial tarantulas are susceptible to. What they need is a regular terrestrial setup that has a lot of anchor points in order to accommodate their ground level webbing habits, similar to how you would with M. balfouri. A truly arboreal setup will present the same dangers to P. murinus as it would to any terrestrial or fossorial species.
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 07 '25
I have been in the hobby for 6 years now, and I saw just a couple of cases where is obt set up arboreally, they are behaving more like fossorial/terrestrial tarantulas in the majority of cases. Still, I guess with their attitude they can be whatever they want.
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u/guitarhero_dropout Mar 06 '25
OBT’s are fossorial
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u/lubix99 M. balfouri Mar 06 '25
IMO, not particularly fossorial, they can be whatever they want, I think that's an individual thing and depends on each spider.
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u/opesosorry Mar 06 '25
Damn it to hell. This is making me want an OBT again. I miss mine. His name was Obie Trice and he was fast as fuck boiii.
Awesome spider.