(dramatic music)
- Some people may say that this is the most terrifying room
that they've ever been around
and I may agree with them.
- [Aram] We have an escapee!
- Five years ago, I would've never even stepped foot
in this room, now I'm absolutely amazed.
I'm a little bit terrified.
These things are absolutely ridiculous
and I'm surrounded by thousands of tarantulas,
and we're gonna see 'em all. - [Aram] I got one on me.
- [Noah] There's one right there.
- Somebody get this tarantula off me.
- [Noah] Arman.
- I think we're all useless here.
- He like goes in the shutdown mode.
He says, "Jake, get this tarantula!"
(all laugh) - I'm so embarrassed.
- [Aram] But if you did get bit by this,
you're gonna be outta commission.
- Oh, geez.
- So we actually have communal emperor scorpions.
- [Aram] Communal emperor scorpions.
- [Brian] Oh yeah, look at that.
- [Noah] That's cuter. - [Jake] Way more scary.
- [Noah] They're super cool, man.
- [Jake] Throw your hand in that, Dad.
- I'll pick one of these up.
- [Noah] Are those pregnant?
- [Aram] No, these are actually juveniles.
- [Brian] Look at that.
- Shit, why am I doing this?
You offered it.
- [Noah] They look fake. - [Brian] I like 'em.
Obviously scorpions under a black light will glow like this
because they have a chemical compound on their ectoskeleton
that actually makes them glow.
Absolutely amazing.
The thing that's really crazy about this is that
they've actually found fossils of scorpions like this
that are like a hundred million years old
and still that will glow under a black light.
Absolutely wonderful.
How cool are these?
What would happen if I ever got bit by one of these?
- This is the Monocentropus balfouri.
It is an old world tarantula.
If you got bit by an old world species this size,
you are gonna be in some pain.
You're not gonna be in as much pain if you got bit
by a Poecilotheria, the Gooty sapphire,
but these guys still pack a very strong punch.
But it is very unlikely, in my opinion,
and I've been doing this for 10, 11 years,
to actually get tagged by this particular species.
- [Jake] Noah, you ready? - [Noah] No.
- [Jake] Noah, just grab that clump right there
and pick it up. - You are...
- [Aram] Just do it.
How about if I start?
(ominous music) (all groaning)
- Why am I not breathing? What do we have here?
- Here we have a Grammostola actaeon, not iheringi.
Another very, very docile species.
These guys are becoming a little bit
more common in the hobby.
They used to be super, super rare.
A young female actually.
They're gonna get a whole lot bigger.
She's gonna get to be about to be
seven and a half inches maybe.
- Wow, beautiful. - You wanna handle this one?
- I think I might.
My ma is calling. (chuckles)
What in the world is this thing?
- [Aram] This tarantula is probably one of
the rarest tarantulas in this entire room.
This is an Aphonopelma mooreae and-
- It moves very different, huh?
- [Aram] It does, a little bit.
They're a little bit more on the defensive side.
This is probably one of the largest females in the country.
- [Brian] So you're hoping to breed this obviously?
- [Aram] Absolutely, absolutely.
- Oh my gosh, has it ever been bred before in the country?
- No, not in the country.
More enclosures of balfouri.
They're a little bit smaller
but I think there's gonna be more here.
- More? (echoing)
(gasps) That's cool.
(all gasping)
Oh my gosh! - [Jake] Oh my!
(tarantulas hissing)
- I need a nap.
I'm gonna pick this one up.
It's all... (Jake laughing)
- [Noah] They're hidden there.
(all oohing)
- This is crazy.
- [Jake] (gasps) Oh my! Oh my god!
(ominous music)
- This a versicolor here?
- This is the infamous Caribena versicolor.
This species is known to be very docile, very chill.
Still, at the same time, good handling techniques
are always to coax a tarantula from behind,
kind of to get an idea of their temperament.
Always wanna do that with any tarantula,
doesn't matter how nice, how mean, coax 'em from the butt
and then on to person, that is proper handling technique.
- [Brian] This is certainly the most beautiful tarantula
I've ever held, personally.
That is ridiculous man, wow.
- [Aram] This is a must-have.
This tarantula is a must-have for any collection.
- That is just ridiculous. Here, Jake.
- [Jake] What do you think, Noahie?
- It's really pretty.
- I used to be so afraid of spiders and tarantulas
and over the last five years or so,
I've come to love 'em to the point where,
if you happen to have a little bit of fear,
just being around something so majestic
like this should get you over that fear.
- [Jake] It's alright Noah, you're okay.
- Just like Noah's doing right now.
It's exposure therapy.
- [Jake] I don't think that he likes
when Brian uses certain words.
- [Aram] All right, guys.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, look at this!
- [Aram] We're gonna do some breeding action.
- [Noah] What do you mean, breeding action?
- We're about to breed tarantulas?
- Take a look at this, guys.
We're actually gonna see some breeding here.
- [Aram] This is the mature male, the little guy.
(panicked exclamations)
- [Brian] Look at how just...
- [Aram] You guys see how he jumped?
- [Brian] Please, please, please, please, please,
please, please. - [Aram] Breathe.
(dramatic music) - [Brian] Oh god (inaudible)
- [Aram] You guys are gonna see some action.
So he goes right underneath the female.
He's gonna reach her epigastric furl
with his pedipalps and insert the sperm.
This is where I typically play George Michael.
- [Brian] (whispered) What we have here, guys
is actually a breeding of versicolors.
The male is actually inserting his pedipalps into,
what is it called?
- (whispered) Epigastric furl. - What he said.
He's actually, this is it.
This is amazing, wow.
(gasps) I feel kind of dirty watching this.
(all laughing)
- I gotta write that down.
(dramatic music) - What happened?
- [Aram] I think I hit the court board.
- [Jake] You court blocked? (all laughing)
- [Brian] (startled) Oh damn, Jesus.
It literally, I don't know if it bit me or not.
And it hit me, I don't know if it actually caught me
but it hit me.
Scared me so bad. (all laughing)
- [Jake] You jumped too, we both jumped.
- [Noah] Cause he screamed.
- [Brian] This one right on this thing went like, (hisses)
and I just felt it to go boom
and I looked and it was like this like (growls).
The heart rate's up, guys.
(Jake gasps) I can't touch it.
- You can't touch it.
(Brian nervously laughing) What happened?
- I don't know.
I love 'em, they're so amazing but they scare me now.
- Look at him scratching hisself.
- You guys know we have Judy the Gooty sapphire
at the RepTerra event.
Here are some beautiful examples.
Tell me a little bit about these guys 'cause they're crazy.
- [Aram] Poecilotheria metallica, also known as
the Gooty sapphire tarantula, is just one of
the most sought-after and beautiful tarantulas.
They have a bad rep
because it is from the genus Poecilotherius,
so their venom is actually very, very potent.
Very unlikely to actually get tagged or bit
by one of these tarantulas.
The P. metallica within the entire genus
is the least defensive.
I happen to have gotten bit by one of these.
Was March 13. - [Brian] How was it?
- The bite was okay.
It didn't hurt too, too much
but it's what came after that was kind of hell.
- Tell me more, I've gotta know.
- I started cramping, like after the 18th hour.
I started cramping to a point where I couldn't
really move my muscles, I couldn't really do much.
My wife had to put on my socks and my pants for me.
That's how- - How long did that last?
- About five to seven days
and then after that it just... - [Brian] Oh my gosh.
Okay, we can put the lid on now.
- Only tarantula that I've ever been bit by in 11 years.
- Think about that guys.
Thousands, maybe 5,000 tarantulas in this room
and he's only been bit one time.
That gives you an idea when you're holding
a tarantula or anything that I might get bit,
how rare it actually is.
Unfortunately this one bite was from the wrong tarantula.
I'm with Aram here from Urban Tarantulas.
I'm gonna put a link in the description to all his stuff.
He's been kind enough to show us
all of these amazing animals,
and these are what, fresh babies?
- They're not fresh, fresh babies.
Several months old. - They're several months.
- Several months but they start off pretty small.
I put one big female in with a whole bunch of babies
from other females just to save space.
- [Jake] One mother taking care of a whole bunch of babies.
- [Brian] So when you say taking care of,
what does that mean?
- She's gonna be feeding the babies because the babies-
- [Brian] She's gonna be feeding the babies.
- Yeah, when I throw a big cockroach in there,
she's gonna start eating the cockroach,
breaking it down and all the babies
are gonna start feasting off the cockroach.
- That is absolutely amazing.
I didn't know they did that.
- [Aram] This is one of the very few species,
if not the only species, that actually feeds her own babies.
Most tarantulas eat their babies.
- This is actually a gravid Goliath birdeating tarantula.
(Noah and Jake oohing) I can see why.
I don't understand, so this one's already been bred
and the area is bloated with babies?
- That's the hope, Brian.
Super confident that there was a successful insertion
when we paired her with a male.
Praying that we get some babies out of this female.
- How many would an animal of this size-
- Not much because they have big babies.
The eggs are super large.
She's gonna have maybe about, 50, 60 babies if we're lucky.
- Not much? - 50, 60.
- 50 or 60.
- There are some species that have like a thousand babies.
- [Brian] Wow.
- [Jake] Oh, that's not good.
This species, the Theraphosa blondi
is the original Goliath birdeater.
Holds the record of the largest tarantula in the world.
I think the record was 11 inches.
- They're one of my favorite tarantulas on the planet
to be honest with you. - Mine too, actually.
- I love these guys.
Crazy to see, it's heavy, it's big.
It's not just large like a huntsman spider, right?
It's got that beef to it. - It's got body.
- As far as the enclosure, pretty much any tarantula,
you want to keep it as simple as possible.
You want to be able to lift the lid,
look down into the enclosure and be able to locate
any bolus, the tarantulas or molt,
so you could pick it right back up.
There are a few communal species in the tarantula hobby.
This is probably the second- or third-most communal species,
after the Monocentropus balfouri.
It's the Neoholothele incei.
Check them out, they're a few months old.
- Do these get as big as the balfouri?
- No, it's actually a dwarf species
so they get about two and a half inches maybe.
About this big leg span.
- Can you touch 'em?
- Yeah, you can totally touch 'em.
These guys are totally chill.
- [Brian] He didn't go anywhere. Go on bud, there you go.
This isn't so bad.
They're actually really cute, look at that.
Be free.
I'm making progress.
- These are all my balfouri females
and I keep 'em all solitary because that is,
from my experience, that's the only way
to get a successful sac out of the balfouri.
- How many times a year would they breed?
- I'm gonna go with one, sometimes two.
It's happened where they've
triple-clutched for me before, successfully.
- Is there a time of the year that they breed
or just whenever you put 'em together?
- Year-round, yeah.
You put 'em together, they could lay a sac.
- I'm digging this, man.
(plastic lid clatters)
- [Aram] She attacked the tongs.
She's a little bit more defensive.
Solitary, she doesn't have any friends.
Lays about anywhere from 25 babies all the way up to 75.
- That's what I had my hands in?
- That's what you had your hands in, bro.
- No, no, no. (chuckles)
- This one I would not pick up and put it on somebody.
I could attempt to hold this species.
- Do normally tarantulas, like you said,
once they're on you, it's almost like you're ground,
they're not gonna rear up at you as much, right?
- Pretty much, yeah.
That is very accurate.
Once they're grounded, they're gonna be chill.
- I love it so much.
- [Noah] Beautiful color on it.
- What we have here is a tarantula that I absolutely love
but I definitely, I'm a little bit freaked out by,
the OBTs and this is a fresh-molted one.
- Super fresh molt.
- [Brian] We don't want to mess with-
- If you want to check out the molt.
- Look at that molt there, look at the collar on that.
Of course a really freshly molted tarantula
you don't ever really wanna mess with.
They're still very fragile
so we'll just leave that one alone but look at that.
That is incredible.
Oh my Gosh, look at the fangs right there
that are in the molt, that's awesome.
This one actually hasn't molted
so we can actually see how beautiful these things are
and very defensive.
- [Aram] Just trying to show you off.
We are destroying her home, which is okay.
She's gonna rebuild, it just takes like a day.
- [Brian] Look at how incredible that tarantula is.
- [Noah] It's bright orange.
- [Brian] Beautiful. (all oohing)
Little strike there. That means business.
(gasps) D'you see that?
- [Aram] Brian, do you want to give it a little high five?
This one is a high blue. - [Brian] That is beautiful.
- [Aram] If you look at the carapace.
- [Brian] So amazing. Look at how-
- [Noah] Not beautifuler than you.
- [Brian] (sighs) I think the thing that's so amazing
is how calm you are.
- [Aram] You have to be.
- [Brian] I get really panicky
when they start moving like that.
- Look at these freaking rollie pollies, dude.
- That is a Pamphobeteus vespertinus.
- Chill in the spills man, I don't do that.
- It's pretty rare.
You don't come across this species very often.
This particular- - [Brian] Very large.
- [Aram] They're giants yeah, they get a lot bigger.
This particular spider is very chill.
What we're gonna try to do is pick her up.
What I'm doing right now is pinch grabbing.
- [Brian] Look at the size of those fangs right there.
You can pet 'em?
- This is a heavy bodied tarantula.
You don't typically want them to climb on you.
It's a terrestrial tarantula, it's not an arboreal
so you want to keep it close to the ground.
You want to give it a very flat surface.
- This has been amazing, Aram.
Again, link in the description to all his stuff.
Thank you for taking all these tarantulas out for us.
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- [Jake] You court blocked. (all laughing)