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Upon closer examination, the very oval cephalothorax told most of the story, as did the blonde grey marks on the two front sets of legs. Rick West was nice enough to respond to my emails, and once I gave him the locale he thought he had a good idea of what species my T really was.
I noticed that the Hentzi had a slightly more robust build, with their caphalothorax being more rounded, while my T looked just like the roswell blonde, now known as Aphonopelma Gabeli.It can be very difficult to tell the two apart at first glance. I found a video on youtube that had the two species side by side and it was easy to tell them apart that way. She's kind of skittish and takes awhile to get used to changes to the terrarium. She's only ever given me threat poses and tong strikes in premolt. hehe I'm wondering if the darker color has anything to do with diet, so I'll power feed off and on, just to get her to molt faster and see any possible color changes. The biggest diet change this year is that I'm feeding her premium gut loaded crickets, as opposed to the pet store junk. This is very exciting to me!
Nope! not a chance! lol Tomorrow I'm going to change the substrate to a potting soil/peat moss/vermiculite mix, because she's standing on her tippie toes off and on. Having this one T has made me become attached to the creature, as opposed to having a collection 30 or something.
@Adraps11 Lol....I'm attached to ALOT of my T's. I do sell some but once they're presented with a name to suit their personality, they become my friends instead of an investment.
