Keeping tarantulas as pets, is a highly enjoyable experience.  If you administer the proper care, your tarantula will likely be with you for many years.  They are an extrememly low maintainence pet, and there is no need to have to make sure someone looks after it if you want to go away on holidays.  They often go long periods of time without eating and as long as their moisture is kept up, there is no problem if they are not fed for 2 weeks or more.   Adult tarantulas should only be fed twice a week, and they can be overfed to their detriment.  A tarantula only requires a small tank, simple peat moss, a water container and a burrow.  They do the rest.  They are interesting to watch eat, build amazing burrows and webs and go about their daily lives.  They are a quiet pet, only requiring you to feed them and clean out their tank every 3 months.  In many ways, they are much more interesting pets than fish and hermit crabs, but by far much less maintainence. 

'Wolf'- male Phlogiellus spp. Note his beautiful colouring

If you buy your spiderling off  us, you are provided with a full , comprehensive caresheet, and full email back up support to ensure you and your pet tarantula have a long, happy life together.

Keeping tarantulas as pets is an international hobby.  In Australia, it is only a relatively new hobby, but more and more people are becoming aware that Australia does have its own tarantulas and they can successfully be kept as pets.

I only promote keeping captive-bred tarantulas as pets.  The wild-caught tarantulas, often have spent 5+ years in a burrow, never seeing a human in their whole lives.  When these are caught and placed in a small tank in a pet store, these animals often suffer from much stress and it is not uncommon to hear of them dying soon after.  The combination of this, and the lack of information about how they should be kept, has made many wild-caught tarantulas meet their demise.  It is very sad.

The captive-bred tarantulas do make excellent pets.  Being captive-bred, they are used to people and their captive environment.  All the owner has to do, is ask or research how to look after these animals for total success in their captive environment.  As well as the information on this website on keeping spiderlings as pets, I provide a full, comprehensive three page caresheet on how to keep the baby tarantulas with every purchase, and am also available at anytime for any questions and concerns.  I am committed to the success of captive-bred tarantulas as long-term pets, and I do hope that one day, the number of people keeping captive-bred spiders will be more than the ones that are keeping wild-caught ones.

The captive-bred tarantulas adapt immediately to their environment.  When they are placed in their new enclosure, overnight they will burrow and web and settle in to their new home.  After this, they usually have no desire to escape.  They are cute little things, usually with a large appetite to meet their growing needs.  At night, you can watch your little baby spider venture out in search of her prey.  It is amazing to watch the babies grab their cricket and carry it around with them, usually webbing at the same time.  They make a fun, interesting and highly enjoyable pet to own.  And when your baby does grow into a huge adult tarantula, you can have the satisfaction of knowing that you raised that spider yourself.

The many benefits in buying a captive bred tarantula are:

• You know exactly which species of tarantulas you are buying;
• You know that the breeder is committed to tarantula conservation, and therefore has put the utmost effort and care into raising your little spiderling;
• You can feel assured that you are not contributing to the demise of the wild population of tarantulas;
• You can raise your tarantula yourself and watch it grow month by month.