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Can you please id my Tarantula

Eyad A.Atteyah

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Yesterday I bought 3 Adult Tarantulas from local market .. the sealer don't know anything about the species or even the name he only know that this animal name ( Unkaboot ) the Arabic word which means spider in English..
I attached the photos hope some one can told me the species .. because I need to purchase female or male in the future ..
 

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Eyad A.Atteyah

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and this is the third ..
Please help ..
 

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Eyad A.Atteyah

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I forget also I have the molt of the second tarantula ..
 

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Tomoran

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All three look like G. porteri to me. The first one looks to be a mature male, as there appear to be emboli at the end of its pedipalps. A better pic would probably tell you for certain. The middle one looks exactly like my female, especially with that purplish sheen on the carapace. Do you have a pic of the one that just molted? The molt looks to be porteri as well.

Are these being kept on moist substrate (second set of photos)? If so, they abhor moist dirt. Get some dry sub in there with water dishes. This is a very hardy species, so really all they need is dry substrate, a water dish, and a handful of crickets a month to live long a happy lives.
 
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Ghost

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I agree with Tomoran that they look like G.porteri and the first one being a mature male.
However since you can't be 100% sure that their G.porteri then I wouldn't breed them if I were you as there's already enough confusion with G.porteri/rosea/sp north ect and you wouldn't want to add a hybrid off them into the mix......
 

Eyad A.Atteyah

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Thanks friends for your grateful support and special thanks to Tomoran ..
Yes Indeed .. the first thing I did it is change the whole enclosure to one dry soil and small water dish .. when I purchased .. one of them stands on the water bottom enclosure?? ..
I changed it in the same pet shop ..
I really want to breed them .. ! But not now ..
 

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