Talk:Chilean rose tarantula

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[edit] Humidity

Hmm...I think I disagree with the statement about disliking humidity. It is in fact necessary for these animals, being tropical as well as needing to molt, that they live in a high humidity environment, anywhere from 55%-90%.

Me too. They sure need humidity of 55-90% ... --Goliathus 09:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

It's important to look closely at locality data to determine humidity requirements for this species. They are from the northern area of chile (see: http://www.eightlegs.org/rose/rose.html), which is the area of the Atacama desert (see: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ci.html). The tropical region of chile is in the south, which is not where G. rosea is from. Therefore, this is a species that requireds LOW HUMIDTY. In addition, "The Tarantula Keeper's Guide" by Schultz & Schultz, the most widely regarded book on tarantula keeping, recommends low humidity for G. rosea.

^ though that may be true, how long have they been in the US? Several generations; so perhaps they adapted to humidity in the US. I side with the other two on this one.

Just an observation, but it seems that my rosea strongly dislikes anything over 70% and will actively try to get to higher grounds whenever this happens. I've read that other people has experienced the same, so I think we can safely assume it's not a fan of high humidity. --Debolaz 03:12, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

They may have been in the US for several generations but there will be relatively few captive bred ones when they are so cheap and plentiful wild caught. They are extremly unlikely to have adapted to different humidity over just a few generations anyway. Roy

All tarantulas need a moderate-to-high amount of humidity in captivity, but keep in mind that G. rosea lives in the Atacama Desert, the driest in the world and thus its humidity doesn't need to be over 50%.--Origamikid (talk) 03:08, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] describers

F.O. Pickard-Cambridge (not O. Pickard-Cambridge, his uncle) described G. rosea in 1897 as Eurypelma spatulatum. Why include him in the taxobox? I deleted him for now. --Sarefo 21:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

BTW, it is Walckenaer who described Grammostola rosea in 1837 as "Mygale rosea"
reference: Walckenaer, C. A. (1837): Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris, 1: 1-682.
See also: PLATNICK, N. I. (2006): The world spider catalog, version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html.
--Martin Huber 07:41, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Water

I am the owner of a Chilean Rose Tarantula. I'm wondering what the purpose of the dish of water is for. I have put in a dish of water with a sponge in it, and he avoided it unil it was dryed out. Wondering about this,I researched it and found out that they get water from their food (which is semi-plentiful in the desert) and not from a source of liquid water.Spacecase610 03:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)Spacecase610 March 10, 2007

I know this response is quite late, but I'd just like to say that you shouldn't give tarantulas a sponge as a water source. Sponges grow nasty stuff too easily, and they aren't easy to drink from anyway. Also, while they do get some moisture from their food, it's best for them to have a water source they can dip their fangs into (and that isn't so large they can drown.) RacieB (talk) 03:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


the water dish helps to maintain a minimum humidity, and they do sometimes require one to drink out of... 24.17.40.9 (talk) 06:57, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Feeding video

May be offensive to some viewers. Posted here rather than on the main page.

-- 131.225.22.189 19:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Atacama?

Chilean Rose Tarantula = Grammostola rosea appears to be an ambiguous definition. I have seen lovely hairy reddish tarantulas in the Southern (Valdivian) rainforest, living and raising family in relatively sunny forest spots. It seems unlikely to me that this inhabitant of the temperate rainforest is of the same species as the one reported to be from the Atacama. --Lupo Manaro 21:34, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

But anything hairy reddish isn't automatically a Chilean rose? Debolaz 10:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lifespan

As far as I know, the lifespan of these creatures aren't known and when numbers like 15 or 20 years are given, it's just because that's how long they've been available in the pet industy and nobody really knows. I'm changing the wording in the article to indicate this, but if anyone feels this is wrong, please show references before reverting. And I don't mean some random website giving a number without any justification behind i. Debolaz 22:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC)