Great video, my first tarantula just passed and im saddened but excited to try this method of preservation, thank you!

I just lost one of my favorite Ts and one of the first one I ever got. She’s young, and had a bad molt. I’m terrified but kind of excited to preserve her, she will get a small shadow box with her molt (which is, amazingly, intact) and some of her webbing that I pulled out

Fantastic opener 🤣 love it!

This is a brilliant ideaaa👍 especially after raising them for donkeys years and still being able to display them for nostalgia, or having a legacy display seems pretty slickkk👊

oh man this was awesome. first time i have seen this done.

Awesome step-by-step guide. Thanks Alex!✌💜🕷🕸

Love this!! Thanks for sharing

Very good video Alex and very helpful if you want to get into preserving your tarantulas.

I am going to try this with my Pamphobetus sp. Platyomma tomorrow. He is so spectacular looking, I just adore him

Another A1 video! thanks Alex.

I didn't think I'd be watching a video like this so soon but I knew it was inevitable.

Love your shirt!

The extra sound effects were a really strange choice. But I appreciate the video

Hello great video information Alex

Love this, really interesting and useful for the (hopefully) far future! P.S., after watching your last P. regius video, my girl Pip made another sac (maybe she took the hint!) and I now have 40+ babies that just had their first molt, thanks for bringing me luck!

my Grammastola Pulchra passed today. my first tarantula, and i want to keep her for nostalgia

Great video Alex! Really interesting. Sorry for your loss especially since she was full of eggs 😭😢

That intro was freakin hilarious

My striped knee passed away on me today. She was 15 years old. Female. Thanks for showing me this! I'm going to put her in the freezer & wait until I have the time to do this to her. Looks easy! Thank you for posting!

I've cast beetles and pinned spiders in resin. I'm trying to learn how to rehydrate spiders I've bought off etsy so I can pin them and put them in resin. I've only done spiny orb weaver spiders in resin so far.

If you do indeed do the resin I will be looking for to it. I recently lost my little gbb. (was a sling) and I am thinking about doing resin with them because I feel like they are probably a bit small to do anything else with. But, they're in my freezer until I'm actually ready.

I thought the sound effects over the music was a cool touch. This video is full of a lot of great and helpful information, and I really enjoyed it. So sorry for your losses-including the loss of that eggsac.

You may have to do what they call a half cast method since they will float in resin after being dried out I use this method when casting scorpions and it works very well

Where’s part 2?

Hi Alex 🙂 Great video 👍💪‼️ What is with the stuff in the carapace? Doesn't it start rodding? Greetings from Germany Hope you and your family are well ‼️ Jean🙂

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Aww Alex how devastating! Don't be put off the hati hati, they are beautiful ts and I'm sure she didn't pass due to her care ❤

Great video. I want to do this with molts

I'll be interested in seeing finished specimen . Good one Alex ! About how long did this take in real time ?

Is there a part 2?

That sounds like what happened to my P. Regalis .. She looks like having a sezer when she would try to walk and stop climbing up and just stayed on the ground and finally passed away ..

Lol you're funny! Eating that chip like it was a t 😋

Hello, great video! My pet tarantula just died and I want to preserve it. How long do I have to freeze it before I do the taxidermy? Do I need to dry freeze it or can I just place it in a regular freezer?

Did you ever post the second part to this? I can't seem to find it

Lol you crack me up.

I dread a dead T, but now I know what I'm doing when it happens.

I have a genuine question if anyone knows the answer but, I got this spice put it in the freezer and the next day when I took it out to thaw his abdomen just dropped and I had to get rid of him and I don’t know how to keep them from doing that

I have a tarantula cemetary in my back garden

Do you not need to gut the thorax? I'm about to work on my first tarantula and not sure if I need to do both abdomen and thorax or just the abdomen

Now just build it a spider sized piramid and you will have a perfect ancient tomb

Would filling the specimen with silica gel help dry out any remaining guts?

Hey, this was a great video! I'm so sorry for your losses! I also had a death of one of my A. avicularias, he was my first arboreal. Died due to DKS last week. I placed him in the freezer in a Tupperware container. Once I was ready to preserve him: I removed all contents in abdomen and thorax very meticulously. Literally removed everything inside. I had not heard of anyone flushing the insides with alcohol or acetone, so I didn't do that step, unfortunately. I placed cotton balls inside his abdomen and thorax very carefully. Then I pinned him on styrofoam. Well, the problem is that 3 days after this he began to stink like he's rotting. I read Febreze can help with this, but am wondering if it will get worse. Do you have any advice about what I can do at this point? This is my first time doing this. I would rather not use resin or place him in a jar of alcohol or formalin. I highly appreciate you, fellow Floridian!!

Wheres part two?

Interesting, out of interest, what would happen if you preserved a T in resin without cleaning the abdomen. Could you do that??

I've had an entomologist tell me not to take out the guts? Is there a reason to/not to?

Thanks for the vid, might sound dumb but how do you mount them in final frame? Do you use pins still but less, a strap of some kind or some sort of glue to keep them in position? :) cracking video, i would say cant wait to give it a try.. but kinda want my tarantulas to stay living lol. Oh and for the silica you can buy the beads super cheap in bulk or buy those scented room dehumidifier's they are filled with silica beads in a plastic shell and are super cheap. I think its about 6 for £3 here use them myself to keep stuff in the safe dry. Here is a picture of one. i.imgur.com/CHbIi6D.jpg Thanks again for the vid / info. ;)

thats sick in more than 1 way...lol....I think I will preserve my ol man , when he passes, in resin

Eewwwaa!

As someone who has to grade a *lot* of FFA and 4-H insect collections I can assure you that in most cases trying to pin a tarantula is a really bad idea. Their joints are too soft and easily broken, they are full of fluids that don't dry easily and tend to rot, and the abdomens either fall off or shrivel up terribly. Preserving in 70% alcohol is the way to go. At the acarology lab I work at we preserve most of our specimens in this way.

I couldn’t dissect my first tarantula. I put her in 95 alcohol to preserve her body. It’s sad but they make wonderful pets.

Sorry that they died😭

*Casually eats chips* What?