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Hi guys thinking of getting a new arboreal already got a p met and avicularia avicularia and Venezuelan sun tiger would welcome your recommendations on my new t
Cheers
Cheers
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New arboreal
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One of my favourites is my Lampropelma sp. Borneo Black. She's never given me any problems, great feeder and a glorious glossy black.
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Wow I don't think I have ever seen one of them for sale will have a look at some pictures
Thanks
I've seen them for sale off and on and they are pretty. I forgot but I think they are old worlds. I don't have the experience yet for old worlds but maybe one day. These are on my list however for the future.
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Yes, they are OW but mine has always been well behaved, shy rather than aggressive. I'd only been keeping a few months when I got her as a sling and my very 1st T was an OBT.
As long as you know what they're capable of, move slowly when doing maintenance and use tongs you'd be fine.
You can laugh at me but that's exactly what I do with my docile new worlds, haha. I work with them like they are highly defensive old worlds. That is the leftovers from previously suffering from extreme arachnophobia.
I have the highest respect when interacting with them.
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I won't laugh at you, many of us here are recovering arachnophobes. I got slated on another forum for being stupid enough to buy an OBT as my first T but I knew what their reputation was and was prepared to treat her with the greatest respect, she was in fact a coward and would run and hide.
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I can suggest Psalmopoeus pulcher and/or Pseudoclamoris gigas (the OBT of the trees, sans bite)
Though I only have these as slings, P pulcher is almost always out in view and has constructed a large hammock web above the substrate as well as a dirt curtain leading up to the trellis-type hammock. It is always out never hiding unless disturbed.
P gigas, also just a sling for me, is very reclusive but very pretty and very fast. When mature it will be an all orange-colored blur with an amazing feeding response. Very much a hide and ambush type spider, it's speed is astonishing and it's a joy to watch when it doesn't know you are there lol.
Don't over look the arboreal beauties of the dirt and tree.
Though I only have these as slings, P pulcher is almost always out in view and has constructed a large hammock web above the substrate as well as a dirt curtain leading up to the trellis-type hammock. It is always out never hiding unless disturbed.
P gigas, also just a sling for me, is very reclusive but very pretty and very fast. When mature it will be an all orange-colored blur with an amazing feeding response. Very much a hide and ambush type spider, it's speed is astonishing and it's a joy to watch when it doesn't know you are there lol.
Don't over look the arboreal beauties of the dirt and tree.
