I was lucky enough to have recently been a guest on Tom’s Big Spiders podcast with Tom Moran. Nearly 4 years ago, Tom was a guest on my show and he told me if I ever found myself wanting to get into tarantula keeping to reach out to him so we could record a “beginner question” focused episode for his show. The time has finally come, I have recently become fascinated with tarantulas. In this episode, I ask Tom some basic husbandry questions, I lay out some basic characteristics that I am looking for in my first tarantula and Tom recommends some incredible species for folks who already have an exotic animal-keeping background.