How to Tarantula Taxidermy Preserving a dead Tarantula Grammostola rosea

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Tarantula Taxidermy, that's the process of removing guts, stuffing and mounting the tarantula. • With that kind of preservation, we want our tarantula to look as alive as possible. The most important thing while the taxidermy is: PATIENCE which you'll need to achieve the best outcome. • Instruction: • 1. Let the tarantula unfreeze, become room temperature (if it was in the freezer). Then make a straight cut under the abdomen, but leave a few millimetres to the spinnerets as well as to the top where the abdomen ends • 2. Remove guts and fluids, use tweezers, Q-tips and pieces of kitchen roll (to suck fluids out of the abdomen) • 3. Stuff the abdomen with cotton, make sure the abdomen is filled and formed the way you want it to before you continue with step 4 • 4. Cut the sternum open and remove guts + fluids; again stuff it with cotton • 5. Recheck whether you are satisfied, you can still change things • 6. Close sternum and abdomen (superglue); be very careful • 7. Mount the tarantula; put it into a position you want it to be in or onto a decoration you want it to stand on, it's time to show what's inside of you in regard to creativity. • Framing is also a possibility, but whatever you do, REMEMBER that • the tarantula still has to dry and this - on average - takes about 2-4 months which depends on the tarantula (size, quality of taxidermy, ...). • If you leave it in a closed container or something similar like a room without good ventilation, then you are going to smell things you are maybe not comfortable with. These smells are totally normal, but it's probably something most of you don't want to have at home. • So just make sure the place where you mounted it or where you put the mounted tarantula is well ventilated (really doesn't have to be much, but is needed to avoid bad smells), then you are totally fine. • I'm interested in how your taxidermy went and how you got through the process. Maybe you even have some things that make it easier or are just nice to know. If so, let me know in the comments below. • Updates on my animals can be seen on my Instagram: • / leons_chamber • Timecodes • 0:00 - Intro • 1:25 - What You Need • 1:43 - Cutting The Abdomen Open • 2:45 - Removing Guts • 4:48 - Stuffing The Abdomen • 6:51 - Final Process / Stuffing Sternum • 8:29 - Tarantula Taxidermy Outcome • 8:36 - Mounting The Tarantula • 9:28 - Outro

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