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Close shot of hairy tarantula with reddish legs, called Mexican Fireleg tarantula, crawling 2. Close shot of all-brown, King Baboon tarantula, lifting up its front legs3. Close shot of blue and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSeattle, Washington - 26 September 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close shot of hairy tarantula with reddish legs, called Mexican Fireleg tarantula, crawling \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close shot of all-brown, King Baboon tarantula, lifting up its front legs\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close shot of blue and white tarantula, called Cobalt Blue tarantula\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close shot of Costa Rican Tiger tarantula, pull out to medium shot\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Jacobi, Tarantula Breeder (audio partly covered with video) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think one of the biggest misconceptions about tarantulas is that they are dangerous. They are venomous in that they do possess a venom, but in most people, a bite wouldn't be any more severe than say a wasp or a bee sting. So one of the misconceptions is that they are fierce and ferocious. Some of them are, have a very strong defence mechanism and will bite, but none of them can cause a fatality. There has never been a recorded fatality from a tarantula bite.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close shot of black tarantula on Jacobi's hand (Note: this covers second half of bite above)\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close shot of the Cobalt Blue tarantula\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide shot of Michael Jacobi sticking something into tarantula cage\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide pan of tarantula cages\u003cbr/\u003e10. Jacobi sticking utensil into tarantula cage\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close shot of utensil attempting to rouse tarantula\u003cbr/\u003e12. Exterior shot of warehouse where Tarantulas.com is located\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close shot of Tarantulas.com sign\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Michael Jacobi, Tarantula Breeder (audio partly covered with video) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I have hundreds and hundreds of tarantulas in my home. Here at Tarantulas.com, we have probably about three or four thousand on hand. So, I mean, they're very interesting. Your average tarantula keeper that becomes very active and very, almost obsessed with the hobby, will generally have at least 50 tarantulas because they require so little space and there are so many varieties of colour and form.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close shot of orange and brown tarantula, pull out to wide shot\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close shot of a bunch of small Indian ornamental tarantula nymphs\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close shot of Cobalt Blue tarantula, pull out to wider shot\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Michael Jacobi, Tarantula Breeder (audio partly covered with video) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Tarantulas are very undemanding in their needs. I mean, just giving them food and water and a sufficiently warm temperature. They're fed - a big female like this that's already well fed can be fed once a month or twice a month, so they're very easy to leave for extended periods of time. If you're going to take a one-month vacation, you fill up a water bowl and you can leave it. It's not like other pets, like even fish, where you're going to need somebody to come in and feed them everyday.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Jacobi putting glass tarantula cage onto shelf with other cages\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close shot of tarantula in cage\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close shot of tarantula in web\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Michael Jacobi, Tarantula Breeder (audio partly covered with video) \u003cbr/\u003e\"A tarantula cage is much like a tropical fish tank in that it's something that you can add some beauty, a little touch of nature into your home. You don't necessarily have to interact with them. The species that can be handled like this one are actually the minority, are actually few and far between. For the most part, they're something they're very interesting to observe their habits, as far as their feeding, their molting, in some, their silk production to make retreats. They very much appeal to people in the same sense that that trading cards or stamp collecting do, because there's a wide variety - over 100 species available in the hobby. They require so little space that people can start collecting a bunch of different ones.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide pan of tarantula cages in Jacobi's warehouse\u003cbr/\u003e24. Close shot of tarantula crawling on hand\u003cbr/\u003e25. Push into extreme close shot of tarantula\u003cbr/\u003eThey're the subject of many a nightmare and horror film...the definition of \"terrifying\" in the minds of arachnophobes everywhere.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd this is their time of year, with Halloween just around the corner, hairy, scary tarantulas seem to be everywhere...from the fake ones in store windows to the real ones in glass cages in pet stores.\u003cbr/\u003eIf you can get past the fear factor, you may be surprised to learn there's much more to tarantulas than their role as a Halloween prop. \u003cbr/\u003eFor many, they make a good household pet.\u003cbr/\u003eMichael Jacobi, who runs Tarantulas-dot-com, insists the spiders are not the fierce and ferocious creatures they're made out to be. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says their bite is no more severe than a wasp sting. \u003cbr/\u003eSome species have hairs that they use as defence; these are extremely irritating, and you especially don't want to get one in your eye. \u003cbr/\u003eBut aside from this caution, Jacobi says tarantulas are interesting pets, and extremely low maintenance.\u003cbr/\u003eJacobi should know... he's had quite a wealth of experience with the exotic, hairy arachnids.\u003cbr/\u003eHe keeps hundreds of tarantulas as pets in his home, he's also a breeder and dealer with 25 years of experience.\u003cbr/\u003eIn his two warehouses outside Seattle, Washington, Jacobi has thousands of tarantulas.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's enough to send a shiver up many people's spines. \u003cbr/\u003eBut for Jacobi, observing and caring for the spiders is an interesting and captivating hobby.\u003cbr/\u003eOn a routine basis, tarantulas need little more than a spritz of water to maintain humidity in their enclosure and a few crickets or cockroaches once in a while for sustenance.\u003cbr/\u003eThey don't need large cages to wander in, so the spiders don't take up much space.\u003cbr/\u003eJacobi says a well fed and watered tarantula can be left for up to a month with no care while its owner goes on vacation.\u003cbr/\u003eSo, they aren't much work - but what's the payback? \u003cbr/\u003eYou can't cuddle them and they won't come when you call their name. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Jacobi says they're great observational pets. \u003cbr/\u003eIn fact, there are 850 species of tarantula and well over 100 species available in the tarantula keeping hobby.\u003cbr/\u003eBut that hobby might not be for everyone. 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