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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chubbs" data-source="post: 52601" data-attributes="member: 1084">Need to get me another Iridopelma. Haven't had one in years. I think I am so attracted to them because they remind me a lot of Avics (my favorite genus)  in both lifestyle and that fuzzy look they have. As far as I know they are one of the few arboreal genera that create Avic style tube-webs near the top of the enclosure. All of the other arboreal species I've owned (Psalmopoeus, Poecilotheria, Tapinauchenius, Lampropelma, H.maculata) will build a retreat closer to the ground or from the ground up and incorporate substrate into the webbing creating "dirt curtains." Stromatopelma calceatum is an odd-ball as they normally create OBT style webs, sometimes extending from the ground all the way up to the top of the enclosure. How is your Borneo black in terms of temperament?</blockquote>