Avicularia Avicularia "Pinktoe" Care Ft. Primal Fear Tarantula Enclosures 

Another fantastic rehouse video Tom. Thanks for the shoutout and im so glad you like the enclosures!!

Finally we got included! Not enough content creators have information for people who reside in the north. So that alone made me subscribe 😁

The spider so nice they named it twice 💛

As someone who actually does order acrylic enclosures out of the US (even though I do get dinged on the customs charges), I certainly appreciate you bringing this company to my attention. It's not just these kinds of enclosures that can be hard to find up here. I'm jealous of those Container Stores you have all over the US whereas here I pay a premium even for AMAC boxes. I'll definitely be giving Primal Fear a look so thanks to both you and them :).

Awww I love these ones ! They look like they are wearing ballet slippers! 🕷💞💞💞🕷

Those arboreal enclosures look really nice!

Awesome enclosure, awesome T.

I’m in the US (VA) and ordered a Primal Fear enclosure for my avic yesterday. Even with shipping, the “Black Friday” price for the “Penthouse” was fantastic.

I use primal fear enclosures and I love them! It's such a life saver to have acrylic enclosures in canada because even in cities, it can be so hard to find containers to modify for inverts and even diy enclosures are expensive. The latest podcast episode was great, and I learned a ton!

The pink toe was my introduction to taking care of tarantulas in 2015, and what helped me get over my phobia completely.

STUNNING T!!!!! OMG!! I now need to get one...Thanks for sharing!♡

Wow ! It's great to know that we Canadians have access to these nice looking enclosures now. As for the Avic's surprise move, I'd chalk it up to a misplaced feeding response. My T. albo did the same once when I tried to nudge her away so I could pull out a bolus in the open. Stay safe and thanks for sharing :)

wow i just so happen to be a canadian in need of acrylic display enclosures

Just got my first avic yesterday named her Elvira she's a juvenile thanks for a great video Tom!

Thank You Tom!

I'm in the UK 🇬🇧 but I just had a look at primal fears spider's and housing, quite a lot of stiff on there, many species to❤

From Canada...... thank you😁!!

Gotta love an avic!!! They are amazing! And yes, I had an avic who would sooner bite me than come out 🤣🤣 She had an incredible feeding response!I loved her, though. She had an incredible feeding response and gave me two huge clutches❤️ I still have the fondest of memories about our colab years ago with the versicolor!

16:32 I do this too, usually in near the holidays and almost exclusively in malls or government buildings.

Hey Tom & Billie, how you guys doing up north? Well I received two of those "Explosion Proof" enclosures and rehouse the big girl, the freebie T. blondi, she not a L. parahybana I'm pretty sure. Any way she extremely defensive but totally a pet rock. Since her rehouse, she just sits a top her hide. In the smaller, I rehoused my G. porteri and she likes to hang off a side wall. Weirdo T. But I like the looks of them, clean looking enclosures, so I'll definitely get a few more. Spring is on its way down here, as I've already heard our Appalachian Peeper frogs calling for mates. And a few, early bird narcissus have poked out of the ground here in the sunny areas. Have a great week!

My grandson has requested a pink toe for his birthday next month, so I'll make sure he watches this video for tips!

Thank you Tom ! I was always setting up my arboreals with a water dish way up high . Ala Dave's little beasties . When I overflowed it in P strata's , it immediately ran down and drank from the puddle . Now all the arboreals get two water dishes . Seems to work out well . Thanks again !

Im one of those people that just havent had good experiences with Avic's or C. Versicolor. My first versicolor was a 1/4" sling. Followed the latest care to the best of my knowledge but it never ate or even made a web, basically did thrive at all. Died in about two weeks. Second Versicolor also about 1/4" (waaay more ventilation) never webbed, ate once, died in about 3 weeks. Only two T's ever lost. I currently have an Avic Avic that has built two web tubes, us eating, and has molted yesterday.. pretty much everything you want your spiders to do. Very happy. Its a little older than the two Versicolors that i lost. Its right at that stage where it just molted out of its light colored legs and officially has the toes. Its maybe a lil over 1". Im soo happy about this spider. If i try the C. Versicolor again. Ill get maybe a juvi and try maybe lower the moisture. Im thinking, if it was my fault, maybe the moisture was a bit much. Plenty of vents.

Sometimes I think when they have their legs all jumbled up like that they're sleep and get startled and think oh it's food but after they grab it instantly let go

I’m totally capable, I just like my pretty acrylic enclosures 😊 I buy mine on Etsy. Great vid !!

She is just gorgeous. I don't usually like brown and black Ts but this one is so pretty like a frosted coat, and she is laid back.

Thank you so much for this video. I just bought my first Avicularia Avicularia and moved it to its enclosure today. Your bottle idea worked like a charm to move the tarantula safely.

It's good to show this side of avics! I have one that's always been pretty docile but, another that passes away recently could be as reactive and defensive as a feisty old world 😆

Pretty tarantula, awesome enclosure. I spend on the Tarantula Cribs enclosures. Just for now I bought a couple for my slings. When they grow, I'll do amac boxes.

After poring over article after article on your website and watching over an hour or two of your videos, I finally got my first tarantula. Yes, a precious little Avicularia avicularia. Somehow, I missed this video, but I'm still glad to watch now that I have my own. Thank you so much for all of the accessible information!

Another beauty ❤

You keep doing you Tom, I appreciate all the enclosures you try. Great video as always! 😊

People who feel the need to immediately comment about how "it's so much better and cheaper to do [x]" are ANNOYING. You have the time, tools, and talent to fabricate your own stuff? Congratulations, that's awesome. Some people don't. I'm not sure why some people always consider that to be such a personal affront to them that they have to comment about it in the rudest and most condescending ways possible. On a much more pleasant note, that is a gorgeous Avic avic. I can't get enough of those pink toes!

Love all you do tom but most of all love you're pod cast listen to it all the time. Thank you.

I just picked one of these up, thanks for the info, especially since I do in fact live in Canada, alot of stuff is rather difficult to get here. But good to know about the importance of cross ventilation and not over moisturizing, this is only my second tarantula

These spiders are so beautiful! Thank you for the video!

So about 25 years ago when i was in the Brazilian Amazon, we would literally see these guys everywhere and often on the side of big trees that was flooded by the river and where tons of water was flowing just 3 feet below the spider. But the trunk was dry though and this was in the raining season. The humidity was out of this world. I remember sweating places iv never been sweating before. Especially on the upper lip LOL. But anyways... Seemed like there was always good air flow where these guys were living and so it makes sense with the high ventilation requirements. Now iv not kept these guys for a few decades now and so im no expert on these at all. But i do remember i used to keep mine pretty much like u described here. So great and informative video 👍

I’m from Canada and have had no problem ordering from Tarantula Cribs, will look into Primal Fear😊 Unfortunately my C Versi made her own hide just above the door, have to dribble water on the web and put a cricket in the web too😂

Just gorgeous.

Awesome video, Tom! Primal Fear is local to me, love their enclosures!

Hey Tom! Always thrilled to see a new vid from you poppin' up! =D I love my versicolor, she's so active and walks up my hand without protest. I've been keeping her in an aquarium with a top mesh wire lid, with lots of plants (chlorophytum comosum aka spider plant, fittonia aka nerve plant, tradescantia aka wandering jew). After I left for more than a month (long holiday abroad), she was still doing perfectly fine. I think the slow-release moisture from real plants really helps. I almost never mist and she rarely ever drinks from her bottle cap, and is always out. These species of plants tolerate low watering, low light levels, whuch makes them pretty good for terrariums. Probably better than pothos vines imo. I don't use any artificial lighting either. Ofc it won't work in a basement with no windows. Another big + for these is that you can propagate them very easily. Buy one, get dozens for free! The less I water, the better the mini ecosystem works, actually. ;-)

Beautiful spider, might look into these guys soon… the only “pink toe” I keep rn is C versicolor. Also, good on you for saying what you did in the beginning regarding enclosure selection Tom; whilst some might be fine on the DIY side of things, there’s absolutely NOTHING wrong with going out and buying something like these acrylics if that’s what you want. You do you 👍

11:55 only just realised the lid ventilation holes looks like a spiders web, that brilliantttt😂😂😂

A trick I use in the 32oz deli cup instead of flipping it upside down and all that I put small amount of substrate in a cork piece that is about an inch from the top or so and usually does fine as they don't go to the top and always holes around the rim and 4 or so in top and way I was shown to raise em very similar guy said think of it this way ur a tree spider u get all the wind and air when it rains ur never wet and a little bit stays on ur web and ya get all the humidity when water on ground evaporates and ur mainly dry its worked great and similar to how u just said u raise urs I was freaked out to raise the Caribena.versicolor or t.selidonia but both get kept same and are doing well

Really it's all about personal preference or what ya can or can't afford but it is always good to have a long biased opinion on things and just be able to see how they look how they last through time and use if they warp or not or fall apart n so on I like seeing things like this people show its cool to know other options are out there

Absolutely brilliant as usual Tom, and very agreeable viewing as always Tom.

Thx 4 sharing Tom and fun to watch, as always. I think it was more like a feeding response and not a "Attack", but even a grap for prey can end up in a bite, so as always no need to handle a tarantula... Avics are no angles either! 😏 Still beautiful spiders! 🖤 Greetings Chris 🤘

🤩 One of my top favorite Avicularia sp. My 61/2" adult female recently molted and she is stunning.

Shoutout to Jeremy. I met him twice at an expo in our hometown and got some primal fear enclosures.He's super nice and friendly! Thank you Tom for promoting his business! Manitoba represent!🍁🇨🇦 P.S. can i get a shoutout on your next podcast? I listen every week. Thank you in advance 😊

adore my avic, she's a sweetheart of a display spider. for humidity in her set up i have a tiny pothos in among the fake plants. its roots are under the water dish, so overflow that when the leaves go droop a bit and its all good. just watch out for that poo cannon lol

Beautiful Girl. These or at least a similar Avicularia Species are the reason why T's are called Vogelspinne in German. Because of an etching made by Maria Sibylla Merian wich shows a Avicularia spec.feasting on a Hummingbird. Actually I don't keep one but I always liked their slow and kinda thoughtfull way of crawling...and of course their cute pink toes.

10:34 Definitely a feeding response. As soon as she realized it wasn't prey she abandoned the attack. Subsequent nudges elicited the expected response. My LP did the exact same sequence in the exact same order.

I love these .Mine is still a sling really about an inch but i have been keeping it for six months following your advice on moisture and ventilation . Thanks for another great video Tom .

Hello great video information and rehousing Tom

She's beautiful, and fuzzy lol. Love the pink toes.

Yep I had one that pooped 💩 at me. Great video.

Oh man! I didn't know you only had a few avics. Highly recommend getting at least a minatrix and braunshauseni to go with what ya have already.

I picked up a couple of large arboreal enclosures from their booth at the Calgary Reptile Expo last September. The next Calgary Reptile Expo is the last weekend of May 2023; not sure if Primal Fears will be there. Tarantula Canada and Tangled In Webs are scheduled to be there.

Would love more avicularia content. Maybe collab with other RU-vidrs if need be, since you don’t have very many yourself. There are so many Avics and they come in different sizes and colors. It’s a collection destined to happen!

She’s beautiful! Thanks for sharing her ❤ I’ll definitely be checking out these enclosures now that I know they’re easier to come by this side of the border. I had one of these guys about 15 years ago and of all my avics (arguably all my T’s) she was the top offender for her fight-or-fight response… that chomp on the paintbrush only surprised me because it was happening to the spider whisperer ;) haven’t seen the same drama level from other avics though (aside from the standard “this is north-south cross ventilation when I specifically requested east-west. I think I’ll die.”) Maybe it’s something tied to a hunting strategy in nature?

Glad you put this out. I happen to be trading for one of these on Saturday. Love those toes haha.

Yeah I just lost mine due apparently from SAD just the other day. She was a juvi, and I think I was keeping her a little to moist. She was my second T so I’m just starting, will try again and hopefully will have success.

Thank youuuuuuuu for your always beautiful and educative videos Lots of love and respect and greetings from me in Amsterdam the Netherlands

Everybody should remember that you can't take it with you when you leave this world so buy what makes you happy!!

thank you so much for this!! it's so hard to find nice acrylics in Canada, plus we can't have feeder roaches here, so it can be limiting for tarantula keepers

I had a pothos in with mine and I think all the webbing choked it out. I think I’ll look for some realistic fake plants for my next rehouse.

I use a zilla arboreal large. Pink toe was my first T.

I'm curious why a lot of articles say to keep their enclosure humid? This may have killed my pink toe. He/she shed, lost a leg, and is super skinny. A friend of mine sent me your link and from one video learned more than any other. Thank you so much for the information.

Love avics

Tom's the man!!!!!

I got one yesterday. 1-19-24. It hasn't started making a web yet

When I had an Avic. avic He escaped and was lost for a week. He emerged right above my bedroom light switch. Right on feeding day. It was my first arboreal Tarantula, and that was the only enclosure that kept getting poop all around it. Looking back I would have added real plants to the enclosure and spring tails.

have you heard of the avicularia kwitara or the giant green pink toe, ive always wanted to see one of the big spider youtubers do a video on it but it must be rare

I have an Avic geroldi on the way. I think I just discovered my favourite genus. Just my two cents, I think they're perfect as beginner species if provided with proper husbandry ❤️

my Avic Avic is a full grown (F) and she has absolutely given me threat postures showing fang when I've tried to get a cricket higher up on her enclosure, or just opened the enclosure. I just let her be and let her enjoy the solitude.

Ive had a pink toe they do jump and will if their climbing up something and you cover them behind theyll jump into your hand❤❤❤

Hey Tom great video,I had the same problem with slings but I've managed to get a juvi,I keep dry with a water dish,and I've had no problems.i would like more to see if I can bring a sling up with out it dying.

I just got my pink toe in May 2023 my house is low humidity and 67-69 degrees she’s never molted and today she/he webbed for the first time I’m wondering if I need to up the humidity and temperature or if she/he is fine! I will add more things to the enclosure for it but as far as molting and temperature and humidity im worried it may die trying to molt with little to no humidity any tips? I have a heat pad but in worried putting that on will create a hot spot and kill it… I’m so new to this any advice greatly appreciated!

My first pink toe suddenly died and I was so upset I didn’t know that was a thing that happened there’s not enough information out there at least that I didn’t find 😭

Thanks for the link for the enclosures I been looking for a new site to get new sling enclosures from I just got 10 new slings and I wanted something more fun to put them in. I love your pink toe she so pretty I got 3 myself and I just love this specieces.

Just got some Avicularia purpurea Avic Avics seem to have sky rocketed in price in uk lately , been trying to find an af for awhile now😅

I have been avoiding these tarantulas I guess. My 1st was an A. Avic and things went very bad! I hadn't found your channel yet and believed the whole moisture thing and lost her. I felt terrible! Maybe it's time to try again...

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Hey! So I really want to start breeding once I get back to the USA (I'm in England for school rn) and I was thinking about trying to start off by breeding with someone else so that we could split the slings so that it's not so overwhelming. Do you have any ideas of how to find people interested in a breeding project? Also what T would you recommend for a first time breeding project?

8:00 Tom, try long, bendable, wire pipe cleaners for this?

Thank you for sharing. I just bought an avicularia about 3 weeks ago she is a purple pink toe though beautiful little baby. Anyways I have a humidity reader in the enclosure but I’m not sure as to what around is a good humidity for them since you said not to much. Do you have a number to be in between or do you just eyeball it? I over filled her water dish a little and the humidity is at 55-65 which is not what recommends when i look it up but that good be old info as well and someone that doesn’t know too much about them or keeps them so I wanted to get your opinion so I can care for my girl correctly. If I don’t over flow her dish it is usually in the 40s but I have drilled a bunch of holes in it for cross ventilation so it may be too many? I think she is fixing to molt so I want to make sure everything is good humidity wise before hand so she doesn’t loose legs or worse die. I can send a picture of her if need be so make sure everything is okay with her enclosure just to get some good advice on whether it correct or not. Thank you for your time and hope to hear from you soon.

Would you be able to look at my Avics recent molt? I took it with a macro

I have a large female and she hasn't ate since since I got her a few months adult. How long typically is it between molts for large adult females ?

We raised gerbils for a while when we were first married. The cages were lined with cedar chips on the bottom. But we had to clean their cages every week. They smelled so bad. Do T;s make that smell too?

Hey Tom! I have a question. I lost an H pulchripes (1.75 in dls) two days ago to a bad molt. "Todd" molted right side up and only his abdomen popped off, his carapace looked like it was trying to come off, but didn't. Idk if it was failure to thrive or what. I had him for almost 5 months, he was in premolt when I got him, so he didn't eat. Then he molted and he ate maybe 3 times after, and hadn't eaten since, even though I offered. He had 2 water dishes and I occasionally sprayed his web. I think he didn't have enough moisture to molt, but I can't make him eat. I know my enclosure and stuff was fine, I had it looked at by several people. Is this just bad luck or failure to thrive, or just a bad molt?

We need someone over here (uk) to start making something that good, we have a few over here but I'd say, without fear of contradiction, not as well made, most of the ones here are too flimsy or just top opening. Great video, and my Avic is just as unpredictable.

Hey man, I need help with my Avicularia avicularia! He is currently on day 140 of refusing food. He just built himself a funnel web, his abdomen is healthy size, he's not dehydrated, he has proper cross ventilation, and enclosure temps are correct. He just won't eat. I can't find any info online regarding my current situation. Should I be worried?

I am new to tarantulas. I got my first 2 last Tuesday. My Dominican purple is doing great out and about and eating. But my Mexican red rump has not been seen since arrival. I can the the burrow but not the T. How long until I should start to worry?

Has anyone asked the spider which enclosure they like best?? I think she was startled, she was threat posing or kick airs or use the poo cannon. She was very calm after the brush tap.

Is this a good size for an adult avic?

Hey Tom 🕷

is this genus harder to keep alive than caribena and ybyrapora

I thought they’re molts has to be removed asap ?

I'm not able to make them myeloma. With only a few animals I have bigger glass terrariums... And I wouldn't mind having a few cheaper plastic terrariums 😊👍

Just tell people don't mind the poo dribbles as it was roach taco Tuesday the other night lmao