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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 84262" data-attributes="member: 4199">Nhandu or Lasiodara or Acanthoscurria, you need a giant <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />  My 3 (N. coloratovillosus, A. geniculata, and LP) are awesome eaters, the LP gets a little timid with prey larger than his abdomen but the N. color and genic don't care, food is food <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />  the color pattern on the A. genic is one of my favorites also.  Unlike the LP and N. color my genic didn't burrow and hide much at all as a sling, he was mostly out in the open, usually just burrowing down for premolt.  Now that he's a juvie he's always out in the open, the only time he goes into his hide is if i startle him opening the enclosure, but once that initial jolt is over he comes back out to see what i'm doing.Another must have for all T collections - the GBB.  Then there's the most popular ones, B. smithi, B. boehmei, G. pulchripes and one of my favorites the A. seemanni.  A. seemanni is like the B. albo, a bulldozer as a sling, always active digging tunnels and redecorating.  He likes to sit just inside the opening to his burrow and pretend he's a trap door spider at feeding time.</blockquote>

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