Always love hearing you talk about how sweet your OBT's are Tom! When I started collecting a decade ago, I always heard how nasty species like OBT's, Pokies, and other old worlds were. Now years later I always laugh at how they are some of the sweetest, gentlest T's I keep. If respected and given proper housing, they are hilariously shy and slow moving, compared to my Tapies & Psalmo's who throw up threat postures like nobody's business and are constantly little track stars running laps in their enclosures

I absolutely love my Ceratogyrus Darlingi, it's been making a sort of volcano since the new rehouse. Cool little web castles, I love the more webbing types of spiders anyway.

Pssst! Hey, Tom....don't panic, but there is a whole bunch of spiders behind you!!!

Can we just take a second to appreciate the amazing quality of the footage and the amazing spiders shown? Wow!

Heavy webbers are the easiest to feed. They feel the feeder right away and their food is unable to burrow away. For the non-webbing species I own I drop their feeders into a deli cup to prevent burrowing. But it might take them a while to find.

I got my forst curtainweb sling last week and it webbed sooo much in just a few days its really cool

H villosella is one of my top favorite Ts after getting my first - tiny sling stage is terrifying, but she has been a fantastic eater and incredible webber! Love seeing them get some attention. ❤

I love these long videos. I was really intrigued by the L.P. I saw it and I thought "hey that looks like L.P. but it webs alot" then you said it was L.P. and I was like, DO WHAT? I'm always learning on here. This channel got me into spiders.

Wonderful video as always, Tom. Really appreciate all the attention your Dipluridae have been getting on the channel. Honestly some of the objectively coolest spiders around. Hoping to snatch my first one fairly soon!

LP really marching to the beat of her own drum huh 😂 Love the heavy webbers! Currently admiring the little web cocoon my little Jumper has made herself, so much web for such a small girl

I’m going to start referring to my closest friends as sackmates 💛

I don’t like webs because my fabulous brother used to drop spiders on webs directly on my head just to watch me faint from fear. Yup, it’s the truth. I’ve come a very long way in overcoming my arachnophobia, but webs still give me the heebie jeebies. I wouldn’t miss one of your videos because of the webs - your kind education has brought me to being able to admire spiders. Hopefully one day I will admire webs too! Another great video. Thanks Tom

Awesome vid Tom, always love to see some nice ‘white castles’ haha. The Neoholothele species are my favourites for heavy webbing tarantulas, I love all the entrances they make it’s so excessive 😂 One genus that shocks me with their webbing is pamphobeteus, some of mine really go crazy with the white stuff 😂

I got a 3 inch female golden blue leg baboon & a very tiny sling 6 weeks ago. (same species) This is my first sling !! Can’t tell you how happy & proud I am to have kept it alive. Praying that continues. Thinking I have a handle on it now 😳 My GBB is a webbing machine !! A few days ago I got a 2 & 1/2 in female Citharacanthus cyaneus (Cuban orange & violet) beautiful. Doesn’t seem to be very common on KZfaq ?? 😳

❤ I have seen a few of mine that excavate by wrapping up dirt with some web to easily be able to carry it away, so cool!

I love certain web spiders . There webs feel like thick cotton candy

Great video Tom, I know whenever I buy a tarantula I always go to your videos to learn what to do to take care of them and their behaviors. ❤

I'm surprised how many on this list I have/had. The heavy webbers are some of my favorites. My LP is the exact opposite of yours, it's only ever made a molt mat. But it's cool to see the potential for heavy webbing is there.

Tom, yet another magnificent video. Thanks! I particularly find your LP fascinating. Mine is one of my lightest webbing spiders, just laying down an invisible mat on the substrate and nothing else. My heaviest is my H. pulchripes. I don't really remember how I set up her enclosure to begin with because I can no longer see any of it. 🤗

My gold form Neoholothele inceis were some of my first spiders, and their enclosures are just fascinating. Burrows and holes and tunnels, just awesome! My sericata has also completely blown me away with its webbing racetrack, which makes sense when you look at those MASSIVE spinnerets!

Green bottle blue she has a large 12x 12 and all of ity is white. Even my new sling who has been upgraded in one week has coveered a lot of her floor

My GBB webs in spurts. Slowly, her enclosure is being covered.

Amazing Webcastles!

Yet people call them unintelligent. It takes at least some brain power to compute all those different entrances and exits in relation to yourself and the food. Very magnificent constructions, yet inconvenient for the keeper. I had a traumatic experience with a webbing species. I got an adult GBB, which filled her whole enclosure with webbing. She was eating fine, but I ignored the signs of premolt. insects kept hiding inside the webbing, I am also sensitive to the hairs and I didn’t intervene much. Finally, they ate her during her mould. What can we do to minimize those occurrences? Also, I never expected Lasiodora parahybana to be in this list.

Tom you have so many beautiful T's in your collection. The webbers are the most interesting. I wonder if their webs can be made into silk like the fluid from silk worms? You have a lot of tats. I bet your class loves that! Have a great weekend and Happy Independence day late.

Hey Tom hope you n the family are keeping well, I have a random spider suggestion for you. If you like heavy webbers try Tegenaria, they may just be common house spiders but my girl filled a 6lt jar so thick with web I couldn't see in the jar . People often over look them but they are an amazing spider that webs like crazy and has an extremely good food response, more ppl should have them imo. Great upload as always Tom thanks for taking the time to do it 😊

Absolutely fantastic Tom, very informative and very enjoyable, and every spider 🕷 featured, in superb condition as always Tom.

Hey Tom! Great sumup of why Ts web up their enclosure! 👌 My only heavy webber out of 7 species is my GBB female. Over 2 yrs she made herself a confortable home. Several burrows, high up in her 18" tall enclosure. Ofc she killed all her plants, but they served their purpose as anchor points. 😅 My pampho sp mascara mostly liked to web the entrance of her burrow until few weeks back, but now she's webbing the whole floor (no blanketing though) in a circle around her place, pinning the plants to the ground. Wonder what she'll do upon these premises. My P metallica (in an undersized enclosure) just molted after she totally webbed up the place. I moved her to smth bigger, wait n see what she does. My other Ts (P sazimai, P cancerides, T blondi) are not so much into the webbing business. But they love to re-arrange their enclosure, which is a lot of fun to watch. 😊 My old C versicolor male... he built a cocoon behind a cork bark, but now mostly hangs out in the 'canopy'. Matured out 8 months ago so he's really only surviving now... I wanted to give the enclosure to my P metallica but in the end decided to let him have a quiet end of life in there. Cheers, keep it up mate! 🤟

I love the fact you've put this video out on the world wide web, yours is the biggest web teaching thousands 😂

@7:20 - absolute fact!! - I once had a big female and its the only spider iv EVER had escape from me for more then 20sec and iv had spiders on/off for almost 38 years now. It took off when i tried lifting the lid to spray some water into its box. This spider was gone for about 2 weeks, until i woke up one morning and saw it sitting on my wall above a door to my bedroom. It lost its grip and fell down on its back and landed on my bed and then bounced back up and caught a grip of the wooden door that was not slippery like the wall. To this day i WISH this had been recorded. Obviously it no fun seeing a spider dropping down from 7 feet and potentially hitting a hard floor on its back. But that bounce it did on the bed was just too funny. Its something you would only imagine happening in a cartoon or something 😂 Hi Tom Hope you are doing well. Greetings from Denmark

Neoholothele incei are amazing webbers! We currently have about 12 of them and now a bunch of slings just hatch from a gold male and gold female. I'll be pairing our olive forms this weekend. By far my heaviest webbers! Amazing and severely underrated species. I'd like to send you a few when they're ready.

Thank you for this amazing video!! I adore heavy webbers.

the N. incei have got to be my favorite. even as slings mine have webbed like crazy.

Thanks for a great video! I keep predominantly arboreals, and I recently got a couple of P. Redunctus slings. I didn't know they webbed that much, so I am very excited to see what they do when they grow up!

such a cool vid!

I've had 4 N. incei, all male. Someday, I'll have a female 🤞 My Pumpkin Patch and Speckle Patch are both constantly trying to run out of their enclosures, I ended up putting them in the enclosures with a lip around the top. They're worse than cats trying to run out of the front door 😂

Hey Tom! Love seeing the longer videos over summer break! Awesome video! One thing I like to do is pump my heavy webbers full of high protein food (mostly roaches) when I rehouse to help them replenish some of the proteins they expend on the webbing. I have no idea if it makes any difference but the logic is sound. I also like to give my heavy webbers MUCH larger enclosures than necessary so they can create the intricate web burrows or "swiss cheese" arrangement. My H. villosella is in an XL critter keeper which is gigantic for her but she uses the space beautifully and her webbing is breathtaking. My N. incei will be going into an XL critter keeper soon as well. Also, my O. aureotibialis and P. johnreylazoi are on sacs! I'm super excited. Unfortunately yellow jacket season is in full swing so I don't have time to incubate or take care of the slings, but my local vendors are happy to take the sacs off my hands. Also, thank you for introducing me to ScareTheater, I love his videos! I'm seeing more and more keepers I deeply respect take steps away from Facebook groups because no one listens to them, even though these are people who have been keeping and breeding tarantulas for decades. It's a shame that wilful ignorance is so prevalent these days that elder keepers feel forced out of the groups THEY started to help educate/discuss these amazing animals. I know you always say "it's great that the hobby is growing" and "we need new blood" but I'm seeing the quality of the "new keepers" and it's like... do we really, though? Is this the best we can do? There is no place in this hobby- or any hobby involving living animals- for lazy, wilfully ignorant people who refuse to do a modicum of research before bringing a living creature into their care. I know we've discussed this before but it seems like every day one of my friends is posting something along the lines of "taking a step back from the groups as there's no point trying to help people who won't listen." Recently an individual has been making the rounds on the groups asking some very concerning questions. First he asked what the best "breed" of tarantula was for handling. Eventually he settled on T. blondi and is now making numerous posts asking about price ranges for 11.5-12" blondi (which is concerning on so many levels), and numerous keepers have put this together with his previous post and are expressing concern. The guy disregarded dozens of highly experienced keepers and their advice. Honestly that's natural selection at its finest but the underlying issue is that obviously this puts the spider in danger and the risk of bad publicity should something go wrong. I guess I just wish people had the wherewithal to recognise when others may have more experience and may know better, and that the advice is not meant to berate, but to help. Another individual has taken a liking to me for some reason I cannot fathom, but he was a keeper in the 90s and is just getting back into it. Which would be great and fine and wonderful if he was able to understand that we do things very differently now. In the past, idk, 5 months? the guy has picked up at least 20 additional animals, all of which were wild caught, btw, and many of which were gravid. And he's done no research on any of them, then comes to my DMs asking me why his xyz died. He's got giant centipedes on clutches and hot scorpions with babies and honestly the thought of that makes me sweat. I tried gently explaining why we don't buy wild caught and he says he can't afford captive bred. Okay dude I can't afford a Ferrari so I don't have one. That's it. If you can't afford to do things correctly and ethically, then you don't get to do them. I have spent HOURS of my time trying to set this individual on the correct path to be successful in the invert hobby and he just isn't listening. I stopped trying but he still messages me daily asking extremely basic questions and showing off new acquisitions. He also refuses to learn scientific names because they're "too complicated" whereas he's telling me he got some Peruvian Blue Butt Goliath or whatever silly common names there are and asking for advice on it and I haven't the faintest idea what species of animal he's referencing. I really cannot express to you how unfathomably frustrating this is for me. I TRY to be nice and help when people seek me out for advice, but I cannot deal with blatant stupidity. I'm the same way with my clients. I can take clients yelling at me, pointedly ignoring my advice, self-treating and making my job a million times harder, etc. What I can't tolerate is when I tell someone something THREE TIMES and we're both speaking the same language and they just don't get it. You can't argue with stupid but what do you do when stupid keeps knocking on your door? I really don't block people and I was hoping the dude would get the idea if I just stopped responding but he clearly didn't because he continues to blow up my DMs asking why his scorpion died or how to find the 6 inch old world arboreal that escaped. Not trying to be mean but the guy is an idiot and has no business keeping any living thing. In my opinion, the hobby is better of WITHOUT this type of person, as they just don't have it in them to be successful in a hobby that relies heavily on knowledge, research, and advice from veteran keepers. The only things in life that really just infuriate me beyond words are blatant animal abuse and blatant stupidity, and this guy checks both boxes. Really nice guy, just not equipped for a hobby full of venomous arthropods. Sorry for the long rant, but had to get it off my chest. Also, I know you've mentioned doing a podcast about Backwater Reptiles horror stories and I would love to hear that honestly. I don't think anyone would give you grief for calling out that place as I firmly believe that anyone in this hobby with two brain cells to rub together should know at this point that they're highly disreputable. Hope you're enjoying the summer and that Billie and her techs are staying safe out there! - Charlotte

AWESOME video Tom some AMAZING WEBBAGE there lol

My H pulchripes is my heaviest webber. It's also perpetually angry - it's given me more threat poses than all my other tarantulas combined. Such a grumpy lil thing! 😅 Edited to add my H pulchripes is my heaviest webbing tarantula. I also have an L. sericata and it's webbing and feeding response is INSANE!

Hello great video information Tom

Great video as always

BALFURRY❤!!!

I have a sub adult GBB that has done a bit of webbing but not alot for a heavy webber i have alot of hiding places like cork tubes, succulent plants and drift wood roots for anchor points in the enclosure but it loves to chill out on top of one of the pieces of wood in the enclosure always in view for me i am assuming its the perfect hunting spot i haven't sexed it yet and i have always assumed it might be a male because of the lack of webbing and the amount it wonders around the enclosure but its a really chilled out tarantula never kicks hairs and isn't skittish at all

Been a tough week for me in the hobby .. had versicolor sling and Vietnam silver sling pass away this week for unknown reason .. my P. Murinus (I have 3) are one of my favorites they check a lot of the cool boxes for the perfect tarantula

Chilobrachys best webbing tarantula ❤

YES! ❤ I am ecstatic to watch this. I'll reply to this comment after I finish watching it ❤

I love watching my heavy webbing T’s build their lairs. It’s a built-in 3D printer!

This is off topic Mr. Tom, but I was wondering if you have a Stromatopelma calceatum video on husbandry and all? If not, do you plan on making one? I also was wondering if I could get your take on them?

I have 6 pink salmon birdeaters and all mine do heavy webbing plus my bahia Grey bitdeaters do as well . I have 167 tarantulas and true spiders now and about half of them do very heavy webbing I'm working on a Balfouri communal next I hope mine comes out like your it looks amazing

Great video! Do you think the LP webs so much because it doesn’t like the texture of the substrate? Of course that could be too much anthropomorphism. My has only laid minimal webbing in her(?) hide.

02:30am watching Tom Moran video 🕷😂😂🇬🇧

Gteat video tom.ive got admit I have I have 3 obts and one of them has no Web in her enclosure because she prefers her hide.where as the others webbed up a lot and stay out.

Hi Tom could you make a video on Cyriopagopus sp hati hati care and husbandry? Thanks a lot

Hey man I was part of that rayon / silk shirt phase in the 90s as well😂

Nice haircut 🎉

Which species of roaches were you feeding the balfouris in this video?

I have trinidad olive, pink and chevron all beautiful tarantula species and all mine are heavy webbers I show mine off alot on my channel so some of us do talk about and show them alot just gotta find the right channels 😊

Tom what size enclosure and substrate depth do you recommend for a Neoholothele incei? Thanks!

My LP doing the same

What I don't understand is how do they live in the wild if they don't like open spaces. Also I have two Australian s.p blacks and my female is a heavy Webber but my male not so much. ✌️

hey Tom, i recently found someone on facebook that has bred some E. pachypus slings. i sent an email with a link but was unsure if you got it. thanks! thought you’d want to know

Hello Tom, my question is not in relation to this video. I have recently purchased a grammostola actaeon, a spiderling at around 2cm. I have watched your video on the G. Ieringi, and wondered if the husbandry for the Actaeon would be the same? I have researched the results of care, mainly humidity levels have varied. I'm thinking of dry substrate with a water dish and moisten down one corner. How does that sound to you? I really value your opinion. Thank you.

Heterothele are slept on imo I have a couple gabonensis and they r stunning females

Do you keep any spiders of the Mesothelae suborder?

I just can’t like those curtain web spiders…too quick and too scary😳

He said small.....

Hey Tom can since your mention of stout legs i’ve got myself 2 slings in the uk 😆😆😆 thank you for being so helpful to us retuning to the hobby :)