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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scrible" data-source="post: 38469" data-attributes="member: 3496">Absolutely, and I know a lot more now then I did then even though I had done a fair amount of research before purchase.  I won't blame them for the age, but I will blame them for not selling me the correct type of spider.  Unfortunately what was sold to me as a young Grammastola rosea is actually a P. scrofa.  Because of its small size and assuming it was the correct spider, I didn't even try to sex it as I knew a G. rosea of this size would be immature and impossible to sex.  This is my first T. and I had been researching off and on for weeks before deciding to pull the trigger.Now I know what to look for exactly and I will be 100x more careful in the future no matter the situation.  Regardless, I really like my little P. scrofa even if he is a grumpy old man most of the time.</blockquote>