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Crosspostin' from the reptile thread. Here are some of the inverts I work with at House of Reptiles: One of our six Venuzuelan sun tiger slings. Fast as loving lighting.  Burgundy Goliath birdeater.  Sub-adult Purple Bloom, pre-molt. We got in some Texas Gold milipedes and red claw emperor scorps today, and we have a deathstalker (Leiurus quinquestriatus) in the Venomous museum. Also have a desert hairy and an emperor that are both possibly gravid, so we may have many baby scorps soon! I love my job. I used to be petrified of all spiders, but thanks to heavy acclimatization caring for the inverts, this weekend I'm presenting a bunch of our inverts at the Spiderman premiere, and I have no fear handling them. I shook like a leaf when my boss plopped the first Chilean into my hands and told me I needed to display it for an educational presentation, but talking to kids about liking spiders somehow helped me like them more, and now I can have a rosie on my hand no problem. I'm still working up to faster/bitier Ts, but I'm hoping to coax my boss into doing something like this as a display for our store, and if so I'd be the main caretaker. I'm taking over the bulk of our educational presentations, and I was thinking of getting a T of my own that I could bring on classroom/school trips with me to show the kids (I'm the only one handling, of course, and we do probably a few presentations a month, at most, so it's low stress on the animals). The rose hairs at the store are always easy to handle and they work well, but I was thinking something flashier like a Brachypelma smithi would really grab some attention and make the kids go 'Ooooh', since some of them get bored with the 'plain' rose hairs. Any advice on B smithi? I hear they're hair flickers like crazy so they may not be a good choice for occasional handling, but I love how they look, and I've seen them handled before.
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