An observation from my most recent adds

[PanzoN88]

A few months ago I picked up some Aphonopelmas from someone on AB, and now I have made a couple observations. My juvie A. gabeli is pretty skittish, but mainly dashes for the burrow once the lid comes off, but then comes back out and waits patiently for me to finish whatever I'm doing. It is also a fantastic eater, even better than both of my A. henzi.

Now for the interesting specimen, my A. vorhiesi: this one is skittish, but not as much as the A. gabeli, but that is not the interesting part. This one burrows EXTENSIVELY. It is more of a pet hole than my P. muticus. All I see of this one is the tips of its legs.

I highly recommend the aforementioned species to anyone in the states (I know US Aphonopelmas are hard to come by in places like Canada and I'm guessing Europe).

Next on my Aphonopelma list is Eutylenum, iodius, anax, and paloma.

 

[ilovebrachys]

They are hard to come by in Europe but do come up now and then - I think the chalcodes in particular seems to be enjoying a popularity boom at the moment.. That shows with the prices rising in line with that
I'd love a vorhiesi so I'm keeping an eye out for one it's sounds much like our aphonopelma sp montane which has created tunnels underground and has only been seen above ground once in the last few months... None the less they are great Ts and we are hoping to get as many of that genus in our collection as possible