Are ROSE HAIRS a GOOD BEGINNER TARANTULA? Pros and Cons 

Imagine being called unintelligent by your owner who's sitting right next to you. She heard you, Kat. She has depression now.

My first tarantula was a rose hair, she was such a good spider, never refused a meal she was really cute, she was the angriest creature in existence though she would bite everything that moved, she was my little baby though and she would toss rocks at the walls of her enclosure. She lived to be 27 years old.

You just made my day with this video. I've been in the pro camp for years, and although I understand that they have some traits that keep them out of the "top beginner species" spot (varied temperaments, slow growth rate, and the fasting), they still have so many good qualities. And I can't tell you how many folks got interested in this hobby after keeping them (rather than be turned off, as some would argue). I still have my old girl, and she is my favorite tarantula in my collection. I got her 23 years ago, and she was about 4.5" then. She's an OLD girl. x100 likes! :)

thank you for those that sent me rose hair photographs! sorry if I missed anyone's, I noticed after upload they didn't all transfer to my computer during the editing process edit: check out this awesome response from birdspidersCH ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2j_COwdL2BU.html

I’m an arachnophobic however, I held my very first chilli rose hair today...so proud of myself. She was beautiful xxx

Tarantula Kat:Most tarantulas are pet rocks Exotics lair:Where do you LIVE!

PS; interestingly, our Rose girls always eat. They’re our most reliable. Our home is also really warm and our 1.5yr slings have molted twice in the last four months! We are thrilled! Ours are really “friendly” in that they will come out when we open the lids and will actually “play” tugging games with us with their plants. They seem to enjoy this weird game. None of the four has ever kicked a hair. They are also incredible burrow artists! Our slings made the coolest turrets! The adults routinely “rearrange their furniture” and we enjoy watching. They’re a great one for introducing our young ones to T’s without too much fear. :) Just WINS here. We are in the pro column for sure. Thanks, Kat!

I love how real you are about everything. "All tarantulas are pet rocks" 👍😄. I don't understand people that get a tarantula as a pet and say "they don't do anything" or "they just sit there". They aren't going to play fetch. I have always thought of them more as a display pet (while having an amazing creature to care for). I think all tarantula are beautiful in their own way. Some have the strikingly bright colors and others beauty is in their ability to blend into their surroundings. I love your rose hair with her subtle shimmering pink areas on her carapace and her long hairs. She is perfect. Thanx for another awesome video. You rock!!! Love you.

Come to my level! I got scamed into buying a Poecilotheria Miranda for my first Tarantula

A Rosie was my first...second...third...fourth T! We love them. They started our T hobby :)

Kat, thank you for making spiders seem normal and cute instead of mysterious violent little death machines that wanna jump on my face and bite my eyeballs. Your videos are the most helpful I’ve seen for overcoming a spider phobia 😊

I've got a Chilean rose tarantula everything kat has said is absolutely spot on.

I looooooved this. We’ve needed a video like this for sooo long.

One of my old house mates used to have one. We always used to joke it had turned vegan, because it didn’t eat for over 2 years! He was such a cutie though. Thanks for sharing 😊

Aww what a sweet video. I love my Rosea's. They are always out and mine seem super chill all the time. Thanks for the video!!!!

So informative! Thank you so much! I didn't know they were such slow growers, but you really put it into perspective.

I've noticed that beginner species go through a cycle, before it was Aphonopelma chalcodes, then it was rose hairs, then gbb, etc.

My grammastola rosea is the sweetest tarantula ever. I know tarantulas dont "like" to be handled but she is very nice to me and lets me handle her for sometimes long periods of time. I dont hold her for very long anymore because i almost lost her once but she would just sit on me while I watch youtube or something. She once fasted for almost a year and a half. And she likes to dig.

This was the video I needed, thankyou si much as I am looking into purchasing a rose hair as my beginner, thankyou so much!

Ive had my old porteri "Cory" for about 18 years and she's still going strong. I hate how many people in the hobby pass them off, but out of my 73 current Ts, she has the most personality. She's like a cranky old granny that wants you to get off her yard. She was also the spider that helped get my wife into tarantulas. Great video and glad to see more rosie love!

thanks for the vid kat, love this channel

Thank you so much, i got stuck caring for one when it was a class pet. Im relieved that i’m not doing anything wrong and i’m glad they are a hardy pet because my brother picked it up, got scared and flung it across the living room! Thanks😊

Thank you for all the info found your channel recently and I’m just now getting into this hobby I picked up my first T g pulchra this past weekend at a show absolutely beautiful animals.

Yay kat! After a long day at work, a tarantula kat video makes it all better. My male rose hair is pissy, my female is calm and cool.

I've had mine for 14 years!! I love her

😍😍😍 love this advice I’m on the hunt for one now!

Thank gosh for you and your videos. Finally another channel with some serious experience and insight, instead of the typical "oh it could bite you once in a while, not a good pet blah blah blah". Literally my two T's are my FAVORITE pets! Yes, they are slow and just kind of sit there and that's what I love about them! My first T was a G. Rosea and she has never once bit in the 4 years I have had her. Compare that to your typical cat or dog scratches/bites, I have hands down lost more blood and had more pain due to one dog/cat than I have ever received from a T.

This is a very great video about the rose hair and how it makes a good beginner tarantula. This has been very helpful for us.

thank you for making these videos because i REALLY want to get a tarantula and needed to research so you helped a lot :3

Aaaah!! Thank you for featuring our Shelob! (Fatbottombugs)

This is the one Rose hair that I am considering. She is just beautiful

Thank you for this video i feel like you made this just for me. Last week i asked about rose hairs. I want to support my grandsons hobby good video thanks again.

My rose hair is usually a pet rock. For the past month, though, she’s been excavating the corner of her enclosure. She reached the bottom and now worked it to the next corner. No burrows, just landscape gardening.

I most definitely agree with you even though I have just started in this hobby they are absolutely great to have although I was scared about the fasting part

Great video kat very informative

that music at the end reminds me of chandler's channel hahaha. Rosies are or my bucket list for sure, great video :D

I own a rose hair and she is absolutely gorgeous ❤ Thank you, you made my day Love you ❤

My first spider was a geniculata and a gbb. I've now moved onto pokie but I have quite a few badass Tarantulas now. Stay Kool Kat looking forward to more videos. Maybe I send u some of my girls :)

I've a sling rose hair and it's a little beauty. The rose hair was one of 3 choices I wanted for my first tarantula I settled for a Mexican red knee but I had to get a rose hair as well because they are so beautiful great video!

my first tarantula was a mexican red knee (Brachypelma hamorii ) i love her and never regret getting her

Love the points, for me my beginner was a golden knee, she is slow and super gentle, my 3rd was my Nicaraguan curly hair

Rose hairs are underrated, they are beautiful. My uncle has one that is at least 24 years old but was a mature female when bought so probably a good bit older, it lives in a 10 gallon glass aquarium 60% full of dirt and is kept in an unheated room in Montana that sometimes gets into the 40s. These girls are sturdy for sure, though I suspect that the extra substrate helps insulate the spider which is why it can handle being in such a cold room. He said it went over a year without eating on multiple occasions and usually doesnt eat anything in the winter, the conditions are extreme and I would never risk that for my spiders but it has lived a long time.

I have a 20 years old g.porteri.... she s gorgeus. She s my first tarantula that got me in the hobby. She s very lazy but i love her

If i get a tarantula, I'm probably gonna try get an arizona blonde just cause they seem chill even though tarantulas can be moody.

I’ve had 2 rose hairs. They were wonderful ❤️

Hi TK. Nice ROSE video and good hairy explanations 😂😉 Grammostola species are really great and gorgeous. My G. porteri are in the borrow since long month. Now I have to act like tarantulas... be patient and wait for the new moult.

You rock kat hope one day to meet you I love all the amazing tarantula you have

Thanks for sharing Kat my G. Porteri "Reds" was my first T too

Thanks for the info about rose hairs! Mine fasts alot and had me worried a few times when she wouldn't eat for months. In the 5 years I've had her she has only molted once. She is great, never whines or makes a mess, less carework than plants 🕷️🕷️🕷️

I've got a G rosea ~1 inch and love it! Really fun to watch when I catch it digging. Can't wait for her to grow but I know it'll take a while

Seems classic "supply and Demand" tactics with pet shops. Great video

Kat, you are one of the first channels I ever watched on Tarantulas and I can't say enough about how much I Love it. I Love your Ts, the way you edit your videos, the way you present everything, Big Papa and the Puffers. I don't know how you do so good with your phone. I want to throw my Android off a bridge but I have a Canon camera, a GoPro Hero 7, that I haven't learned yet and a camcorder. I'd love for you to at least go laugh at my 3 or 4 short videos if you get a chance. You don't have to thumbs up or anything but would be honored if you would just watch. I'm still a beginner at this since I got my first T last October so a beginner making Tarantula videos LOL and still getting used to them as they grow up. Keep up the Awesome work and I hope to hear from you.

I use to have a rose haired tarantula years ago and never had any problems with mine they are the tarantula that a person should get if they want one.

Tarantula heaven has a gorgeous rose hair, the world famous Spidey. Species maule or the red color form in my opinion are the best looking. I've also heard from several sources that there are cases of the tan color form and the red color form being in the same egg sac, but who knows? I have to get something in this genus, maybe G grossa or G inheringi. One of these is on my bucket list.

Great Video

Nice video! 🎉

Tarantulas are so fascinating. Here in Brazil we call some them "Caranguejeira". Many people around here have a big fear of those majestic Spiders.

You also Rock the piercing and tattoos with Awesome style. My lil sis from another mother. Too cool, Nice Canon behind you

I got my rose hair when she was about as big as your small one in the video. Now she's fully grown and 23+ years old, already outlived the family cat, and will probably outlive the dog as well.

Any Grammostola species are pretty beginner friendly, I think. The only problem may be the slow growing... And that larger ones are thaaaat expensive over there! But we already had this on insta.. I have many Brachypelma and Grammostola slings here. They molt and are the same size like before :D Thanks for the awsome video, heard much bad stuff about the rose hairs in other videos!

I just bought my first Rose Hair this morning. It is due to arrive on Friday.

I got my rose hair in college in 2010, I'm sad today to find out that I believe she is in her last days and entering the death curl. I'll miss my Bonnie she was a really cool animal and I was surprised at how sad I was to learn of her fate. thank you for the video

We started keeping tarantulas almost at the same time, I got my first spiders in September 2017 ...by the way I love your videos

I've had my grammostola rosea for 7 years now and I can just say they are amazing my spider is a healthy specimen she is rcf red color form all in all the Chilean rose hair is a wonderful spices!

Well said. I love mine.

I WOULD RATHER PAY MORE TO HAVE A CAPTIVE BRED TARANTULA LOTS OF ANIMAL SPECIES ARE BECOMING ENDANGERED AND THATS IN MY OPINION NOT GOOD.

OK FIRST off the notification FINALLY WORKED, but also for me personal rose hairs are really cool and beautiful and like every other beginner, honestly i don't know why you wouldn't get one?

I'm definitely going to get a g rosea at some point.

Woooo buddy, I have an Aphonopelma seemanni and she use to be extremely docile. Ever since I pulled the egg sac from her she now bolts anytime I open her enclosure. She immediately meets me in the open and moves at the speed of teleportation. She use to be such a calm spood (then I forgave her trust and took her egg sac and nothing has been the same).

Ty Kat ! Ty4Sharing Wolf🐺 👍

lol just look exotics Lair his Ts are always moody xD. You Ts are usually pretty chlil xD

I remember when I saw this video 2 years ago... And today I finally bought my first tarantula, a Grammostola Rosea. Thanks Kat for everything 💘

My first T was a rose hair, I was 8 years old and I loved it!! I got bit one time but it was absolutely my fault!! I never saw a T kick hair until my red knee! My rose never did!!

I had one back in the early/mid 90's, and they are as easy to care for as it gets. Also pretty easy to handle. Mind did spook once for some reason and ran off my arm and landed on the carpet, then tried to book it under the bed. When I went to cut it off it raised up and bared its fangs at me. Only time it ever did that, and I'm sure it is because it fell.

I just got an adult female G. Porteri! She’s 5 inches and is very beautiful

My favorite is the avicularia avicularia but I really love rose hairs too and the gooty sapphire

Very nice video Kat. They are my first love in Tarantulas.. the G. Rosea's I have had slings and never had a problem with them. They always did very well. ah yeah birdspidersCH linked to over here. Love his videos also.

beautiful

I just got my first tarantula today mexican redknee still bit small but still gorgeous :)

I have a grammostola pulchra (Brazilian black)- I highly recommend people getting this species as their first tarantula. Mine is active but isn’t fast, (so far) hasn’t shown any signs of aggression, and she’s BEAUTIFUL! They’re also an easy species to care for. Although she’s amazing, she still hasn’t eaten since getting her and she has started burrowing a lot recently 😩

Got my first rose hair sling not sure what species exactly but only had it for a month and it moulted for me an put on some size guess I was lucky it's taking pre killed crickets right off tongs for me though it is pretty skittish it's not defensive I'm really happy with her

Sorry I'm late but amazing video with great Info thanks for sharing btw what's the music at 7:05 😊

Great video! They are great T’s, love them, thanks for sharing this info, hopefully it will help a newbie into the wonderful world of Tarantulas ☺️ P.S I changed my channel name recently, it used to be AmzFreemanz Pet Mania ☺️👍🏼

I have just ordered my first rose hair

I think Rose Hair Tarantulas are beautiful. That's mostly what I have been keeping for the past 30-35 years. I have one that I have had since March 12, 1998. She was given to me by a friend. Her friend had it then decided they didn't want it anymore. She has been doing fine since I got her. I have another one that I have had since April 10, 2006. I have had several species of Tarantulas over the yeas. I have had a Green Bottle Blue, a pink Toe, a Curly Hair, a Mexican Red Leg, a Mexican Red Knee, a Striped Knee and a few others. I've had a male Rose Hair, but he didn't live long after he got his mating hooks. I wanted to try and pair him with one of the females, but didn't get a chance, and I was kind of afraid that one of them would kill him. I love Tarantulas.

these girls are actually native to my whole country, and i was shocked when i learnt they are in fact, tarantulas (that names sounds scary). we literally call them "lil' chimken spiders" 🐱 (arañas pollito)

I have a rose hair, and a mexican red knee, and my rose haired is so mooody but sometimes she loves being picked up to walk around.

3:43 you can see the reflection of the tarantula getting startled when you touch its house lol I also have a grammostola rosea, female, 9 years old, had it since it was 1 :)

So... I pretty much agree with everything that you pointed out that people dislike about the rose hair tarantulas. But having said that I have a grammostola rosea I believe, I believe it is a female oh, but it has never molted in the year-and-a-half that I have had her. She just ate last week for the first time in a little over a year. She is probably the size of your adult Rose Hair so given how slow they grow I'm guessing that she is probably 5 to 8 years old at least maybe more. Apparently somebody got bored and tired of her and gave her to one of my favorite local pet stores and I bought her enclosure and all and I absolutely love her. I think she is beautiful, she's never thrown a threat posture and her butt is big and every hair in place so she is not a kicker. Rose hairs are awesome! That being said as far as a good first trantula, if you don't have patience it would not make a good first trantula for you but if you loved beautiful tarantulas in general and have the patience they are awesome addition to any collection. Thank you for the video it was wonderful to hear someone bring up all of these points.

I love rose hairs personally. If anything my only complaint would be they aren't highly available as bigger juveniles or adults since they stopped importing and grow so slow. So if you want a decent sized one it can be tough to find sometimes obviously. Other than "They grow at about the rate of stalactites" I can't think of anything bad about them in my eyes. Since that slow growth means long lived i wouldn't even say that's bad really. Just something to consider more than a plus or negative by default. All the other complaints people have about them I pretty much think are pretty unfair.

Great news, my gbb just molted.

I had a rose hair, she was awesomely nice. I had a Mexican Red Knee when I was a kid. She was awesomely nice for years, until I bumped it's leg with something hard, the ear part of my glasses. After that, she was completely defensive at all times, for years following, no matter what. One bump with anything stiff at all on a leg, can be a permanent deal breaker for them. That's reasonable too, I'd change the same way if it were me.

Tarantulas be teleporting doe 😳

So where could i get one? Lol they're just so beautiful!

I love rose hairs

Would personally never own anything from the Grammostola genus. My first T (if the hubby allows) will definitely be a Brachypelma.

My first ever was rose hair still have her 20 years later

Hello tarantula kat how are you I enjoyed your video and liked your video very much I do not have any new world tarantulas Because they can kick hairs it can cause respiratory problems and vision problems I only have old world tarantulas I respect them and use caution when I’m around them during feeding time

My 1st T is a Chilean Rose Hair. And they grow so slow. I got a CGK few days later and now it's 3 times bigger than my rosea 🤣🤣

i considered a grammastola to be my first. I decided for a albipolosum and a cyanepubescence for my firsts but i could have easily chosen a grammastola. The only hindrance was really their slow growth and for a beginner you want to see them eat so sometimes a year without eating was not appealing. Other than that beautiful tarantulas