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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 239453" data-attributes="member: 49228">The Singapore Blue Tarantula, also known as Omothymus violaceopes, is a beautiful and enigmatic tarantula.  This leggy (7+ inches) beauty is part of a group known as the Asian Arboreal Tarantulas. As many people who have kept this species can tell you, for an arboreal tarantula, it spends a heck of a lot of its time underground! The mystery of why an arboreal tarantula is mostly a pet hole in captivity does have a potential explanation! This species is typically found in old growth forests, where falling, decomposing foliage builds up where the tree branches fork out, creating a floating biome where orchids and bromeliads can grow, many feet above the forest floor. Young Singapore Blues dig burrows into these biomes and find shelter and protection there. Lacking those unique micro-ecosystems  in their captive habitats, these spiders are able to make satisfactory burrows directly into their substrate. That does mean that you rarely see a well adjusted, well fed Singapore Blue out and about, especially during the day. However, the effect of this is that the rare times that you do see your Singapore Blue out, it is an absolute event! Here we have a juvenile that is just starting to grow into its blue and out of the gold guard hair and abdomen colors of a youth.[ATTACH=full]76439[/ATTACH]</blockquote>