Recent content by Traceheart

My sp. Machala molted around 10 days ago, today i saw them out of their hide and snapped a pic. I know females lose the purple so I was leaning female but didn't know if the males always stayed purple or anything

thanks so much. what i thought i saw too. was pretty surprised myself after the molt, didn't expect that much of a color change from it. still pretty in his own way tho

Posted this yesterday and got lots of views but no answers so figured i needed more pics, so i did the best that i could. sorry i'm new to useing this site and wasn't sure if i could delete the old post or had a way to update and bump it. Have Diversipes that im pretty sure has matured since it...

first diversipes ive raised. this last molt they had a huge color shift from mostly blue to now like a bronze color, so figured they may have matured. looking at pictures online and seeing what i think are very tiny hooks (couldnt get a good picture of them between old phone and small hooks). i...

Still learning how to sex my tarantulas and one of my avicularia molted a few months ago and just noticed has these sorta bumps on the underside of its front legs and didn't know if that was what the tibial hooks look like in avics or not. The pedipalps also to me sorta looked like boxing...

About a month ago my caribena versicolor went thro another molt and didn't get the molt out in time to check cause didn't want to disturb them. Can anyone tell it's gender at this stage or is it still too soon?

Thanks so much for the info. Always willing to learn more.

Thanks, just been bugging me that I couldn't label them correctly. When I looked at pics I couldn't tell the difference myself. May I ask how you tell the difference between auratum and the red knees?

I got my first tarantula last year. Got it at a local pet shop that has connections to breeders but is new to selling them. Anyway I was told it was a Mexican red knee and did my research before I bought it. But then later i was told it was a flame knee. Neither time I was told nor was it...