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Where do you buy your spiders from?

Spiders&Snakes

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Curious where everyone else gets their tarantulas from?

Do you have a preferred supplier, or business?

I've used the Spider Shop mainly and found them to be excellent (but a little pricey).

Anywhere else you guys would recommend for slings and juvies?
 

octanejunkie

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Breeders, sellers and other keepers.

I trade with my local club members from time to time, too.
 

m0lsx

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I have brought some via this forum, some from the Spider Shop, some from BugzUK, who is only a 15 minute walk from me. I have also brought several from preowned & pets4homes.
 

Gizalba

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Oh no, not even more options :p Had never seen SpiderPlanet before thanks. I especially like that they label whether they are captive bred or not, as the spider shop does.

Assuming we are talking about the UK here, I echo the above re 'the spider shop' and 'so many legs' - quite a few of mine have come from these and were always well-packaged/healthy.

I got my sub adult avic from https://www.biteythings.co.uk/tarantulas, who I would shop with again they just haven't had the ones I want in stock recently.

I got three from https://theprayingmantis.co.uk/product-category/tarantulas/ - again, healthy, well-packaged, good communication. He doesn't have many in-stock at the moment but if he gets more for sale/you're into praying mantis' too, it would be worth checking out.

For people in the EU I can also recommend spiderworld.eu. Sadly I have just messaged them and found out they no longer ship to the UK unless it's a massive order, due to all the Brexit paperwork :( I got around 7 from there last year. Well packed, good communication and some of them seem quite cheap, around £2 for a lot of the slings, and I got a few larger juveniles for a good price. The post and packaging was £20 to the UK but for the massive range of choice and the cheaper individual prices it was worth it for me.
 
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