Hello, everyone!

[haceldama]

Greetings,

I have recently become enamoured with tarantulas. After decades of being a confirmed arachnophobe, having my Ts has really helped me. I also keep bees, garden, can and preserve, make stuff with beeswax and herbs, and teach high school English.

My current spoods are all .5-.75" slings, except for the C. cyaneopubescens, who is a juvenile at 3" DLS.

So far, I have a Grammostola pulchripes, Aphonopelma seemanni, Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, and Lasiodora parahybana.

What's limiting me now is the fact that it's -5 degrees where I live and I can't get any new Ts for a while. Since my birthday is in March, I was thinking that an arboreal and a curly might me nice additions. Thoughts?

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Welcome aboard! As far as arboreal if you want something more spicy I would suggest a Psalmopeous Cambrigei as they get large and most times are out more than Irminia which are stunning as well. You absolutely can't go wrong with Caribena Versicolor though! Not as spicy and an absolute sweet Tarantula to raise from a sling! Now, if you want a totally different level spood all together all Phormingochilus are gorgeous! Let me throw in Aspinochilus Rufus which was in Phormingochilus! Absolutely stunningly beautiful but again an old world T with lots of attitude!! The Versi is truly a spood any T care giver should raise up though IMHO and can't go wrong. Just have to watch your husbandry. Don't want things to get too damp with them or Avics which I only currently have a sling. Is a Purperia if I spelled it correctly! After all that if you don't want some spicy the Versi is the choice. So colorful as they grow into adults!!! Ahhhh, wish I had another..lol! Happy Spoodering!

 

[m0lsx]

Welcome to the hobby & the forum.

 

[Enn49]

Hello and welcome.

 

[Yvonne G]

Welcome!

 

[boreece27]

Hello!!!!
I’m a newbie to the hobby as well. Love all my T’s, but I have to say my P. Irminia is my favorite arboreal. It’s 2 inches now, and hoping for a female, but that abdomen and socks AND great feeding response makes it so cool. So, my feedback would be to go with one of them. Just a side note, I did order 2 more of them today, to increase my chances on a female. Good Luck!!

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Hello!!!!
I’m a newbie to the hobby as well. Love all my T’s, but I have to say my P. Irminia is my favorite arboreal. It’s 2 inches now, and hoping for a female, but that abdomen and socks AND great feeding response makes it so cool. So, my feedback would be to go with one of them. Just a side note, I did order 2 more of them today, to increase my chances on a female. Good Luck!!

Psalmopeous Irminia are truly glorious T's. My large female was so funny when we re housed her into a Exo 8*8*12! She wasn't bolty but her threat poses were in like slow motion and looked so funny! One my easiest Psalmopeous rehouses! My P. Ecclesiasticus on the other hand was by far the most bitey! My Cyriopagopous mostly just slap bite but she would take a hold of the paint brush and just lay into it! She is a pistol ball! Think she might be dropping another Phantom egg sac again. My P. Emeraldus done dropped and consumed her second Phantom sac. My Ecclesiasticus could be on her third. Love my Psalmo's!!

 

[haceldama]

Welcome aboard! As far as arboreal if you want something more spicy I would suggest a Psalmopeous Cambrigei as they get large and most times are out more than Irminia which are stunning as well. You absolutely can't go wrong with Caribena Versicolor though! Not as spicy and an absolute sweet Tarantula to raise from a sling! Now, if you want a totally different level spood all together all Phormingochilus are gorgeous! Let me throw in Aspinochilus Rufus which was in Phormingochilus! Absolutely stunningly beautiful but again an old world T with lots of attitude!! The Versi is truly a spood any T care giver should raise up though IMHO and can't go wrong. Just have to watch your husbandry. Don't want things to get too damp with them or Avics which I only currently have a sling. Is a Purperia if I spelled it correctly! After all that if you don't want some spicy the Versi is the choice. So colorful as they grow into adults!!! Ahhhh, wish I had another..lol! Happy Spoodering!

Thanks for all of this information; I am drawn to Caribena versicolor and avics because they seem pretty mellow for a first arboreal. And, for obvious reasons, they are aesthetically pleasing and fun to observe. But I'm really drawn to...everything. They weren't joking when they this hobby was addictive!

 

[haceldama]

Welcome aboard! As far as arboreal if you want something more spicy I would suggest a Psalmopeous Cambrigei as they get large and most times are out more than Irminia which are stunning as well. You absolutely can't go wrong with Caribena Versicolor though! Not as spicy and an absolute sweet Tarantula to raise from a sling! Now, if you want a totally different level spood all together all Phormingochilus are gorgeous! Let me throw in Aspinochilus Rufus which was in Phormingochilus! Absolutely stunningly beautiful but again an old world T with lots of attitude!! The Versi is truly a spood any T care giver should raise up though IMHO and can't go wrong. Just have to watch your husbandry. Don't want things to get too damp with them or Avics which I only currently have a sling. Is a Purperia if I spelled it correctly! After all that if you don't want some spicy the Versi is the choice. So colorful as they grow into adults!!! Ahhhh, wish I had another..lol! Happy Spoodering!

Thanks for all of this information; I am drawn to Caribena versicolor and avics because they seem pretty mellow for a first arboreal. And, for obvious reasons, they are aesthetically pleasing and fun to observe. But I'm really drawn to...everything. They weren't joking when they this hobby was addictive!

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Thanks for all of this information; I am drawn to Caribena versicolor and avics because they seem pretty mellow for a first arboreal. And, for obvious reasons, they are aesthetically pleasing and fun to observe. But I'm really drawn to...everything. They weren't joking when they this hobby was addictive!

It truly is. I want almost everything I see as far as T's go. Like a kid in a giant candy store. Now true spoods on are the radar as well. I have one Scorpion and now want more as well. Centepedes as well but none yet. But when you have to work 53 to 56 hrs. a week you do realize, hey I have enough animals to care for l got to stop! I constantly strive to keep water dishes clean and full. With about a hundred inverts that's a chore. It's takes time out of every day to maintain my animals. When I was at 60 it seemed a whole lot easier. I know now I am pretty much at my limit and don't want any of my babes to suffer by adding more. Now if I could have retired the sky would be the limit ..lol,lol! Happy Spoodering!