5 Red Rump Tarantula Facts & Care Tips | Pet Tarantulas

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The red rump tarantula is another tarantula that's very popular in the pet world. These little guys come from Mexico for the most part, as do a lot of their cousins: red knees, red legs, an awful lot of red painted tarantulas. This guy's red focuses right back here in his rump. Is that his rump? No of course not, that's his abdomen. All arachnids are really a two-parted animal, head and thorax fuse together and the abdomen on the bottom. But it is covered in red hair. Like most of his North American cousins, these guys are quick to flick. We have to be very careful around them. This guy was just doing it. Whoops! He's going to do it if I jostle him for sure. They take their hind leg and they rub it really fast and hairs go into the air and they're extremely irritating, so we don't want to mess with that.

But these guys are very popular in the pet world because they are very simple to keep, a very simple animal to keep in a little tiny 10-gallon tank. You can put a lot of plants in there. You can put little hide spots around. And all tarantulas are very, very easy to keep because their diet (oh, here comes another tarantula), their diet is one that they don't eat a lot. So they're very easy to take care of in captivity.

The Mayans, this little guy grew in an area where the Mayans lived. The Mayans used these for all kinds of medicinal purposes. The Mayans would crush up their exoskeletons after they died and use them for a variety of potions for various illnesses they may have had. But in the new world, they're just in the pet world. The red rump tarantulas are readily available these days. I have them on a stand here just to accentuate his beautiful colors, but the proper substrate for him would be more of a peat moss type mixture, not the sand and the dried out one you see in front of you. The red rump tarantula.

[MattHalcyon]

Lmao, when he threw the other on his shoulder. xD

[Meloncholymadness]

I can't believe he just has tarantulas walking around doing their thing everywhere without being watched lol.

[ronlawrence]

We have Mexican Red Rumps living up here in the high country in AZ. I've never seen a female, but in October (now) the males come out and start actively looking for females to breed. Of the ones I've caught and moved to a safer location (away from my chickens) none of them seem to be as heavy bodied, nor as large as the tarantula featured in this video. Ours are jet black, with very short hairs on their legs and body, with extremely distinct, bright red hairs on their abdomens.
They tend to be very easy to handle, non-aggressive, and fascinating "pets".

[jeffclark]

The host scoops up the other tarantula and puts it on his shoulder, where the spider chills! Later, the spider must be crawling down the host's back!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣HILARIOUS!

[DukeJuki]

That thing looks more like a Lasiodora sp.

[jimfenney]

Lots of them in Mayan Riviera, never saw a tarantula in nature until I seen them in mexico,

[StevieBeanBeans]

my baby red rump just died thismorning RIP Ducky

[eddiemuise]

i recently bought a RedRump, he or she is huge, in a 5 gallon tank.but it is always sitting on the side of the tank.i bought a few bags of coconut bedding.how much do i put, can i move into a 10 gallon tank.and put my Rosie in the 5 gallon.i want them too be happy.

[animaladdictionz]

1st. that isn't even a red rump

2nd. Scientific names?

3rd. Never keep spiders on sand substrates I can get inside of the joints and harm you spider!

[MuZZik]

Salmon pink bird-eater or Baha scarlet a red rump!!!

[serguzestable]

Abi sekline hastayim tarzina bitiyorum yaaa

[markloat]

Is vermiculite OK for red rump as substr

[eddiemuise]

that looks more like a Rosie, then a redrump.

[hiatoypopotutuliop]

is garden soil is ok for my mexican red rump?

[mateigeorgian]

That s the L Klugi not a red rump it s comes from Bahia

[FightAgainstGrenades]

That's not even a red rump tarantula, and what's with all the common names? If he were an experienced keeper and wanted to give GOOD advice, he would use scientific names. Man these pet store dealers don't know much about what they sell

[ralvepetty]

5 red rump tarantula facts and care tips


there are no care tips and there is no red rump in the video i am on the title and already it has two strikes

[jizznapkin]

Loved the 5 facts lmao I learned nothing about nothing

[Joshua-chij]

My red rump died yesterday from a bad molt 😢

[gloriafayloga]

there's a escaping tarantula on 0:30 :0