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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allthingsterrarium" data-source="post: 78113" data-attributes="member: 3930"><p>Hello everybody! Last month I went to a reptile show called Repticon in Waukesha Wi and there were of course a lot of breeders there selling all kinds of interesting stuff. As I expected some people were selling tarantulas, many species and sizes. I actually almost got a species called a Haitian brown which I later learned was a type of birdeater but the guy told me they are an aggressive species and get enormous so as I'm still a beginner with tarantulas aggressive species for the time being. Another one that caught my eye though seemed much more reasonable. I forgot what it was for a while but I found it online and then I remembered it was called a pumpkin patch tarantula and the scientific name is Hapalopus sp. He was probably still very young and was being kept in a large vile, not huge by any means, probably a little smaller than a penny and had made a little web for himself. The price was very good at a little under $20 and I was really considering getting him but I decided not to as I have no knowledge of the species and needed to do more research as I did not know about how long it lives, it's temperament or just what it would turn into. For all I knew at the time it might have been just a juvenile of something huge and aggressive that would live for decades. I'm going to go back to Repticon in August and if there is another pumpkin patch for sale I just might get it. I'm sure there are a lot of resources online and I'm going to go look at those but I also want to learn all I can from people that have them or have kept them. Here's a picture I found on Pinterest that looks pretty much identical to the one I almost got except he was a brighter yellow if I recall correctly. Any information would be welcome and appreciated, in particular how big do they get and how long do they live? Any special requirements for care?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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