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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MassExodus" data-source="post: 53153" data-attributes="member: 4086"><p>That's no bullsh*t..I've seen brown, with a bronze looking carapace, grey with a grey/pink striped carapace, red with a pink carapace...I just think of them all as roseas. I have a big pretty grey female that's obviously what they're calling a porteri, but I personally believe its all just slightly different color forms, caused by the environment particular to where each one originated from, or the parents anyway. I could be wrong, it could be age maybe? But it's just not that important to me I guess..a rosea is a rosea to me. They're all cool spiders. Someone told me once that red color forms can be mixed in a predominantly grey or brown color form sac. It's all very frustrating if you get to looking too closely<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> I had this conversation with a youtuber once, he was pretty frustrated as well. Tarantula taxonomy sucks.</p></blockquote><p></p>