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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I just need all the T's" data-source="post: 220341" data-attributes="member: 39012">Common names have no place at all imo. The deeper you dive into Asian old world you will find out that it's a huge mess. People selling as one thing and they aren't. Seriously you really have to get a deep hold on ability to do at the least a level of taxonomy to identify what you have if you intend to do anything more than just keeping spider's.Do yourself a huge favor and for go the common names they are of no use at all. It will actually drive you nuts later on when all you see is common names and you can't find what you're looking for because you know the actual name of the spider your looking for.For example there is "I'm using the three easy ones too" three cyripagopus/whatever other name change they have used.You cannot tell them apart by site alone.It really gets down to counting spikes on the metatarsal to help identify them, along with other means.Lmao I feel like I'm going off the rails and venting. Sorry for that.If I ever could offer a solid piece of advice to anyone getting into spiders it would be to learn and stick with the scientific name given.It may seem nuts at first but you'll see that the more you communicate with others in the hobby that's all you will use and no one gets confused.</blockquote>