Huge Huntsman Trying To Get My Fish!

[newfishy]

egh....around here pa in the us...we have wolf spiders that get pissed if you disturb them and will chase and atack you. not fun....not fun at all. and they dont die very easy either.

we live in a 200 year old farm house so we get all manners of beasties....the least scary being the frogs tadpoles and salamanders that live in and around our well. we buy bottled water for drinking and cooking.

wildlife outside is the skunks groundhogs rats/mice and possiums...oh and zipper spiders are kinda neat.

oh and the giant snapping turtles that live in the pond in the pasture...

 

[lisa23]

I think I'll have to stay in this country forever

 

[chibi]

Have you ever found one in your bed? I'm not scared of spiders, but the thought of one like crawling up me in bed would scare the living daylights outta me...

 

[*blacksnapemoor*]

OMG i want 2 go 2 austalia now i love spiders there so cool i used 2 have trantulas they had babys
yay but i dont have them any more a i have fish now i used to let it crawl all over me funny baby lol so yea i cant have 1 now coz my sis is terrified of them an she sed i cant have 1 unless its in my room an my fish are there so thered be no room i could hold my spider

 

[dusky]

oh yeeee gods. Never comeing over there,,,,,,everrrrrr.

 

[cheesy feet]

Great story and pics

This is the biggest spider I've ever had in the house...it's body is a bit bigger than a grape but I wasn't going to get my hand near it to show how big it was

Just as well, up till I was about 7-8 I loved all sorts of creepy crawleys.Until one day I was fiddling with one of these 'garden spiders' but it was like almost bright white and black but still fat in the body.I was proding it around and suddenly it bit me, I still remember it today, much worse than a bee sting!
I can stroke big spiders and sometimes hold them (If I know they're tame), but tbh I don't like the sensation of a prickly thing crawling on you...
I agree with tolak though, any bugs within reason= food for the oscar

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Was just going through some of my old threads and I came across this one.

Thought you folks might like to know that its only in the last two weeks that I haven't been able to find this fella SOMEWHERE in the house - I think he's finally moved on and/or died. Quite possibly a record for the longest we've had one stick around! I think it's to do with the fact its rained nearly all summer here. He's made several trips upstairs and downstairs and in and out of a number of rooms. Would disappear for a few days, but then come back. Never went back near any of my tanks though!

I'm actually sort of going to miss these random nature interactions when I move to the UK later this year!

We have some really nice wildlife over here, its just not so bitey/stingy Where abouts in the UK are you moving to? My office has a garden and fish pond outside the window and we get squirrels that come right up to the doors/windows (most people consider them pests but they are so fun to watch and really clever as well).

When I think about it with a more sensible head on I wouldn't have an issue with a hamster or "furry" critter running the house so its a bit irrational to feel that way about a spider which is just as harmless (I still wouldn't be able to sleep in a room with this thing though!)

 

[abzorbd]

If I would have woken up to that in the morning, I would have been trembling in fear. I really don't care for spiders and around where i live they are usually small. That thing is huge, you can keep them over by you. thanks for sharing, its nice to hear a funny story once in awhile take care!! check ur sheets before u go to bed tonight...ok lol

Coming from nearly the same area as this person, I COMPLETLY agree. I'm glad we don't get spiders that big. Or tarantulas. They're creepy.

 

[stiffler69]

That is just awful and the only welcome it would get in my house is a sharp and hard welcome from a shoe, if i could get over my fear and actually get close enough to beat it, im scared of the spiders we have in england i think the spider species should be wipped off the face of the earth.

 

[crazyaussie]

haha im an aussie and one time i was camping in the bush and when i woke up there was one right next to my face lol freaky my freind keeps them in a tank

 

[stiffler69]

Can of deodrant and a match would sort them out if you ask me

 

[crazyaussie]

Can of deodrant and a match would sort them out if you ask me

yes that works it turn them all white but i thinks thats not a really nice way to die

 

[Amunet]

Well I'm glad this thread resurfaced b/c I missed it the first time around!
I think I'd scream like a little girl if I woke up to one of those
It's not that I'm really scared of spiders, more just wary around them and the shock of something that huge resting on one of my tanks would send me into "shrieking little girl" mode for a bit lol

We live in an old house and get some kind of spider every once in a while. Not sure what kind of spiders they are. They're brown... they're not recluse though thank goodness. If I spot one scurrying across the floor, I'll scoop them up in a cup and toss them outside.

Now roaches on the other hand.... UUUUGH.. they scare the bejebus out of me and die a painful multiple smacks with my shoe death!

 

[SouthernCross]

Have you ever found one in your bed? I'm not scared of spiders, but the thought of one like crawling up me in bed would scare the living daylights outta me...

No, I think I mentioned earlier on they like to be up on walls, in ceiling corners etc. You can always spot them quite easily. They only hide and run into small spots when they're scared.

oh yeeee gods. Never comeing over there,,,,,,everrrrrr.

I think I'll have to stay in this country forever

No need to be like that fellas! Aside from the odd creepy-crawly, Australia is a fantastic place.

Was just going through some of my old threads and I came across this one.

Thought you folks might like to know that its only in the last two weeks that I haven't been able to find this fella SOMEWHERE in the house - I think he's finally moved on and/or died. Quite possibly a record for the longest we've had one stick around! I think it's to do with the fact its rained nearly all summer here. He's made several trips upstairs and downstairs and in and out of a number of rooms. Would disappear for a few days, but then come back. Never went back near any of my tanks though!

I'm actually sort of going to miss these random nature interactions when I move to the UK later this year!

We have some really nice wildlife over here, its just not so bitey/stingy Where abouts in the UK are you moving to? My office has a garden and fish pond outside the window and we get squirrels that come right up to the doors/windows (most people consider them pests but they are so fun to watch and really clever as well).

When I think about it with a more sensible head on I wouldn't have an issue with a hamster or "furry" critter running the house so its a bit irrational to feel that way about a spider which is just as harmless (I still wouldn't be able to sleep in a room with this thing though!)

I'm going over on one of those working holiday visas so I'll probably do the traditional Aussie thing and start out in London but I'm sure I'll get around and try and see a fair bit of the place. No concrete plans really, though hope to get some work in Austria/Germany at some point, probably winter, as I've heard UK winters are a bit miserable!

That is just awful and the only welcome it would get in my house is a sharp and hard welcome from a shoe, if i could get over my fear and actually get close enough to beat it, im scared of the spiders we have in england i think the spider species should be wipped off the face of the earth.

If all the spiders were gone, we'd be wishing we had them back cos we'd be overrun with all the other insects that spiders eat! They're not all bad, and a pretty important part of the food chain I think!

Can of deodrant and a match would sort them out if you ask me

yes that works it turn them all white but i thinks thats not a really nice way to die

Hmm, I agree, I think that's rather cruel. If I really want one outside I usually trap it with a piece of paper and a glass and put it outside. I only kill poisonous spiders. These guys are completely harmless, killing them is unnecessary IMO.

Well I'm glad this thread resurfaced b/c I missed it the first time around!
I think I'd scream like a little girl if I woke up to one of those
It's not that I'm really scared of spiders, more just wary around them and the shock of something that huge resting on one of my tanks would send me into "shrieking little girl" mode for a bit lol

We live in an old house and get some kind of spider every once in a while. Not sure what kind of spiders they are. They're brown... they're not recluse though thank goodness. If I spot one scurrying across the floor, I'll scoop them up in a cup and toss them outside.

Now roaches on the other hand.... UUUUGH.. they scare the bejebus out of me and die a painful multiple smacks with my shoe death!

Ugh, don't get me started on the monster roaches we get here - i have NO sympathy for those! They definitely get the boot!

 

[Azaezl]

Great thread

I never used to be fond of spiders, mostly because my mum would go into a panic over them so as a kid you learn from your parents and I was taught spiders are scary and had to be killed.

I don't mind them one bit now, if they are up high in a corner I leave them be but if they are crawling around where I can get them I'll catch them and let them go outside. I tend to catch them more then leave them after an incident involving some sort of mutant house spider. We often get these tiny little black spiders that look like a mini tarantula, about the size of a bottle top, I saw one of these on our wall and just left it, totally forgot about it until about 6 months later we were just getting in bed when something caught my eye and to my horror there was this huge black spider, nice big hairy legs and fangs above the window, well I panicked because you don't normally get things that big, even my OH panicked, we didn't know what to do, so we figured we'd catch it and realease it in the garden and hope for the best. We got an old 1L jug, which wasn't large enough, so in the end we had to use a big salad bowl which was just about big enough. You should have seen us, 1.30 in the morning, running into the front garden in our pj's, counted to 3, chucked it and ran back inside as fast as we could

I'd love to have a tarantula as a pet but at the moment we haven't got the space and hairless rats are going to be the next animal purchase when we have the space(after a few more fish & tanks of course). So I have to make do with my tarantula paper weight, which sits next to the computer.