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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 133025" data-attributes="member: 27883">I've been reading old threads here and the other site for weeks now. I've watched hours and hours of youtube vids and I've narrowed it down to three species. As usual, I would like to ask the advice of those more experienced than me. My choice of these three is fairly arbitrary, so I could also be easily convinced to try a different species first.[USER=27444]@Arachnoclown[/USER] showed a gorgeous Poecilotheria in one of his recent videos and I had to ask him what it was. He told me it was a P. ornata. I watched the video about five times and showed my daughter too. Wow. The way it moved out of its cork hollow was magical. The size was surprising. That sparked more research and I don't think I realized how big some of the Poecilotheria could get. I like big spiders. I like big pretty spiders even more. I'm also really enjoying my other new arboreals, so this seems like a good progression for me.In trying to figure out what species was in the video, I looked up a bunch of them to see what I could learn. I also really like P. rufilata and subfusca. These would be my top three choices, based on my very limited knowledge. I'd love to hear any insight from people that know these species.</blockquote>