I just got mine - my first old world! I am absolutely smitten with how adorable they grow up to be, mine is about 1/8 inches right now. I can't wait! My wife prefers the dwarf species we keep and she absolutely loves this one lol, she named it Yuzu. :)

I adore the dwarf heavy webbers, they're so cute and super interesting!

Oh no, she’s too cute, I’m getting old world envy again… Tom I don’t know if you are a WONDERFUL bad influence or a TERRIBLE good influence but you sure get me into a lot of spidery trouble at home haha! My spiders definitely benefit from all your work though - thank you for another great video 🕷💕

Smaller than expected, huh ? Good thing you had another enclosure more suitable for her size but also one that didn't have escape possibilities. Gorgeous little dwarf ! Stay safe and thanks for sharing :)

No question this week? I was kind of looking forward to it, lol. Great video! Loved the housing readjustment.

One of the exotics shops in my area just had babies, so I was finally able to pick one up for dirt cheap. I can't wait to grow him/her up! Such a cool little spider.

If I ever win the lottery (....you know, if I ever play the lottery), I think I'm going to focus on collecting dwarf species. They're so cute!

Love the H. villosella, I purchased 3 as a communal and end up with one...great video Tom

Great! One of my absolute favourite speicies!

This is what I love about your channel! Most others would have cut it and not shown the mistake. I just put my G. Pulchra in one of those cubes because let’s face it… it’s not going to put grow it for quite some time.

Brilliant video as usual Tom, that's a beautiful dwarf species, looking forward to the update already Tom.

That's one of the tragedies of WWII that has been overshadowed by the other horrors of the war. The best known case of the loss of a holotype due to bombings is of course Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, whose original set of fossil remains was lost when the Munich Museum was destroyed but that's just the tip of the iceberg, the losses were enormous

I've heard about H villosella before but didn't know it's an old world. I would've got it as my first OW had i known more about it. Finally grew some balls and got H pulchripes during recent BTS show and absolutely love it

Hi Tom and Billie, hope you’re both doing great 😊 What a great rehousing video again, love the way the enclosure has turned out. She’s definitely a sweet looking wee tarantula 💕🕷️ Take care and have a fantastic new week 💙💕🕷️xx

Hello great video information and rehousing Tom

She's a little beauty Tom thanks for the informative video❤

Cute wee Ts I had a few of these in the past just love the Baboons

That is an old favourite! Had a communal long time ago! They are skittish and shy but not defenssive ime

H villosella was the first tarantula i tried pairing. It was about 15 mins of absolutley nothing happening, then he started drumming a little. She turned around and faced him. 5 more mins of nothing happening before she slowly crept a little closer and stopped again. Then out of nowhere she burst forward and grabbed him and started dragging him in to her tunnels before i even had the time to react. Poor little guy didnt stand a chanse.

She's lush Tom 😍 n thanks for the recommendation I pulled the trigger n bought a barbarous growth enclosure and I loved them so much I now have 6 of the 8x8x8's , I fill the holes with hot glue it covers perfectly but is flexible enough to not mess with the lock or door I just use a bit of plastic to stop the hot glue falling through the gap then set it with water n remove the plastic n it works really well. Great vid as always you 2 n thank you for sharing 😊

So glad to hear that you have got a female of this species now! Very nice rehousing, shows how chill they are. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I raised 6 as a part of our little lab study. We got them in May 2022 fairly well-started, 4 females and 2 males. One male unfortunately died as a sling, the other matured around February. Sadly, he just passed away yesterday also :( It was my first mature male death and death of a sling that I had raised all the way to adulthood. I did pair him with 3 of the 4 females (the other was still too small), so am hoping for an egg sac or two. My first attempts at breeding and I very much just winged it, so we shall see. I’m glad you mentioned in your podcast recently some of the reasoning behind why it is so hard to find breeding information - it’s too bad folks feel they need to keep their processes under wraps. I get it, but it would be nice to see more info out there. If I do get an egg sac I’ll post a breeding report to Arachnoboards. They grow and mature so quickly! I found that they were excellent eaters as slings and juvies, taking pretty large prey items. But they have slowed down a little as adults. Hoping for many more good years with the females.

Love those spiders! Innkeeper a couple of them but in any case I find the Gabonensis more appealing. Keep it up with these unusual spiders😊

What a cute tiny thing ❤ she was so calm too!

Hi Tom, good video as always! H. villosella is the smalest T. I keep at the moment. But I've had mine since 2016 and a bunch of them. They are keept communely in a big 12*12*40 "bio-active" enclosure with some plants and moss. In the middle of it is a big half rotted tree stump, some bark around at the bottom. And I keep them not to dry. It works great over the years and I breed them successfully in there. They are cute little spiders and I never had any defensive behavior from them. And yes, an absolut great as old world beginner spider. There is also a great video about them from "bugsnstuff" in tanzania. Hetherothele gabonensis is another wonderfull dwarf from africa, looks much like H. villosella but with some blue colors. I'm sure you know them or have them to. Stay save and have a great week! Greetings Chris

Just got mine from Tom Patterson (hardcore arachnids) aka other Tom . Great video as always

Great video guys

VERY cute

I have four mature ones, two males and two females and I put them all in similar size enclosures as the one you had intended, one each of course :) and it's awesome how they all turned out, all webbed up, several entrances and feeding is just so much fun now :)

It’s so lovely to see you again Tom. I hope you and the gorgeous Billie are well. I am always fascinated with the fossorial that come up to web and that is a wee cutie.

I have had the same experience transferring webbing along with the T to the new habitat. My Orphnaecus sp. Made a tunnel under some bark to connect the two spots I had transferred some of her old webbing. Was really cool. Both of my P. murinis have done similar things too just not connecting the two spots. By the way I love the H. villosella. I have one juvenile and one larger sling. Great webers!!

Cool video, and l see that butterfly knife !

i feel like getting a dwarf species is like ordering a thin crust pizza. you just aren't getting your bang for your buck.

another great rehouse....... You had mentioned on the podcast that you were possibly looking for topics to cover this summer. I think a great topic would be tarantula inbreeding: is it harmful or not? This may require a guest with some experience in spider genetics, etc. but it'd be so interesting! A lot of experienced keepers say that there are no issues with breeding siblings. However, nature has put in some fail safes to ensure this does not occur naturally (e.g., males from a sac generally maturing much sooner than the females). Perhaps inbred T's suffer from issues that are just not readily apparent to us as keepers. Is it possible that inbred T's are more prone to some of the sporadic health issues that we see in our collection (e.g., impaction, random deaths, DKS, etc.). Just throwing the idea out there...... thanks for all the great content!

Great video Tom they are stunning spiders.i use to have a AF which I had for some time.then one day she had passed away.could have been old age I'm not sure..

Great video as always Tom. With the enclosure, have you had any that are cloudy/difficult to see through? I purchased a second one and its like the plastic has not been polished enough. Wondered if any of yours had been the same? Also, my fav horror film is the original John Carpenters "The Thing" 😊

Would like to see an update when she has done her webbing.

She does look like a chestnut with legs! 🕷🥰🥰🥰🕷

Very cute species! Do old world dwarf species have venom as potent as non-dwarf old worlds?

My H villosella is one of my calmest Ts. I have a mature female.

For a brown T she is beautiful.

There are worse spiders to have loose in the house, at least they web like crazy lol

Great video Tom, sorry, hi to you and billie, you know me already, not into dwarfs but i did have a H villosella, which, unfortunately matured male, i was told they were better kept dry, i use to soak a corner and let it dry completely, its probably, more definitely id say, the only dwarf id have again. I keep thinking of doing something like your film question last time, just to see how many do actually watch mine to the end, like you, i always take the time to reply to comments.

I was about to rehouse mine too so I watched this video for some info but then when I went to its enclosure I realised mine is a Harpactirella overdijki not a Heterothele villosella at all and I got them mixed up lol. but I think they can probably be looked after about the same. and Ive never been able to find out much about H overdijki so Ive just been treating her as a mini Harpactira and she seems to be fine

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oh no you would dl this as your next video since i just lost my sling this week . classic mistake left a red runner nymph in and it moulted then got eaten 😐

Hi tom

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