Presents a guide to keeping tarantulas as pets, covering topics such as selection of species, appropriate housing, temperature, health issues, feeding, water, breeding, and more.
Provides advice on having a tarantula as a pet, discussing their behaviors, housing, life cycle, selection, feeding, and handling. Includes glossary and a list of resources.
An illustrated guide for tarantula owners, providing a description of a tarantula; discussing how to choose, house, and feed the spider; reviewing handling, care, and tarantula conservation; and including a list of resources.
An illustrated guide to tarantula care that presents classification of tarantulas according to classes, orders, families, and subfamilies; a natural history of tarantulas; and advice on catching one's own, breeding, and the daily aspects of keeping tarantulas as pets.
everything about selection, care, nutrition, health, breeding, and behavior
Marshall, Samuel D
1996
A guide to the selection, care, nutrition, health, breeding, and behavior of tarantulas and other arachnids, featuring sixty-nine color photographs and a special discussion on understanding tarantulas.
Explores having a tarantula as a classroom pet; discussing picking one out, physical and behavioral characteristics, creating a healthy environment, feeding, and handling.