Personality of a tarantula owner

My ex-husband owned two tarantula's. He kept them in a aquarium in our bedroom. He said they have hairs on their body that can cause skin rashes if handled to much. I was not a fan of them.
In his younger days he and a friend went out to Texas, hunting them. They live in burrows along high banks along the roads. They would catch hundreds of them and put each one in a different container with air holes, for hauling them back home. You have to like spiders to keep that many in your car, I could not do it thats for sure. lol