Say hello to my little friend Carmella, aka Miss Pissy. She is my latest tarantula, and I got her from Kenthebugguy.com. If you're ever in the market for a spider, scorpion, hissing roach, etc. check him out--his prices are fair and he treats you really well. So, Carmella will be 2 years old this Halloween; the top picture is from one year ago, the middle one is from January, and the last one is from a couple of days ago. BIG change, right? Yeah--she has eaten 5 pinkie rats in a week; now she's getting ready to molt. Believe it or not, she will be even bigger after she molts! And here's a cool fact, they even lose their fangs in the molting process, growing new larger ones to go along with their new larger bodies. After this next molt, I'll post a picture of her along with her set of fangs; we keep snakes also--I'm planning a post all about them later--and her fangs are larger than the ball python's. Wild!
Probably you're thinking to yourself--OMG I HATE spiders--how can she touch those things?! Well, once upon a time I was the world's biggest arachnophobe. Yes, REALLY. My son Aaron and I were living in Biloxi, not long before Katrina, and he asked me (very slyly which should have pinged my Mom-radar) to run him up to the local pet store. We would go there all the time because the owner would let us hold the snakes, etc. So we go, and I had gotten some work done at the dentist that morning requiring groovy prescription painkillers and I was cruising. We get there, and there was a new shipment of tarantulas, which my son asked if he could hold one of the little Rosehairs. When he got it, he put it in MY hands and I wasn't afraid (cuz I was cruising!). Turns out that he had bought that thing behind my back for my birthday and because he had decided I had to "face my fears". Fuck. I KNEW that would somehow come back and bite me in the ass! How many times have I used that exact phrase on Aaron? We get the spider home, he sets it up and says "There. It's ALL yours, I ain't touching it". And he didn't. It took about 6 months before I could walk by that tank without doing the allover body shudder thing. I couldn't let it die! So, long story short--I love spiders now and HE hates them! LOL As I was having the latest photo of her taken, Aaron tells me in NO uncertain terms that he will not be touching her ever again, because she is officially too big and creepy. HA. Face your fears, my butt.
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