Theraphosa blondi availability

[Tyler Kuykendall]

I bought my Chilean rose from net-bug.net, and browsing through their current offerings, I noticed that they have two 2.5-3" female Goliath birdeaters currently available. My question, though, is if you get a male and a female of a particular species to mate, wouldn't they have laid multiple eggs? If so, how do they only have two females?

 

[Logan D]

they are prolly wc or they were captive bread and they could have been the only ones tht survived its very hard to get a successful sac from t.blondis and i checked tht out and wow thts a steep price to pay for a 2.5 inch sling

 

[HungryGhost]

There are many reasons they might only have two females for sale.
1) They may have bought or traded for them from another breeder
2) They may not make all of their stock available for sale
3) They may have already sold the rest

There's a lot more to being a T breeder/dealer than mating two T's and selling every resulting spider to the general public.

 

[MatthewM1]

There's also a strong chance they were imported from Europe. They are far far ahead of us in breeding the more difficult species, especially Theraphosa's iirc.

 

[Tyler Kuykendall]

That makes sense. I like collecting tarantulas, but I'm no breeder of them, so I was just curious.

 

[hellknite]

Are there always T. blondis available in your area? Only found 1 in 2 years and it got sold in less than 30 minutes...

 

[Tyler Kuykendall]

Given that I'm from Arkansas, there are no breeders here that I know of. Even on a tarantula breeders' website, it was the only time I've ever seen a Goliath birdeater available (I haven't even seen one available from Jamie's Tarantulas, where I got my Brazilian salmon pink birdeater).

 

[david harvey]

I saw three on a table at my local reptile expo a few weeks ago

 

[MatthewM1]

Yeah but were they true blondi and not mislabeled stirmi

 

[david harvey]

they looked like blondi's