Porteri or Rosea? I vote Grammostola porteri. Purchased retail as a "rose hair". Also in premolt. Would qualify as a "psycho rosy" and tries to climb out and flea and be defensive when disturbed. Not a nice spider!
I'd be pretty cranky too if my outer layer of skin was about to fall off My vote's on porteri as well, although you'll be able to see the colorations much clearer after molt. Pinkish red carapace/femurs with black toes is rosea, while porteri are generally more brown with some specimens displaying some very nice purples fresh out of molt.
Or it could end up like mine and be neither. Regardless of the answer, I don't think there's at way to be 100% sure unless you're a master at T identification, so I hope you intend on just keeping her as a pet rather than for breeding purposes.
Post a picture of the after molt. Doesn't look like rosea or porteri to me, but perhaps that's just because of how far in pre-molt it is. I just don't remember my porteri looking like that while in pre-molt.
This was her in pre-molt:
This is her, two years after her last molt:
I could totally be wrong though, I'm no expert. I just think she might be a different Grammostola, maybe concepcion.
@Exoskeleton Invertebrates WOW! Interesting new development for me then! I still remember as a kid my "rose hair" was G. or P. cala in one book, and G. or P. spatulata in another!
@miss moxie Yea I don't remember "rosies" being so copper in color. I used to own a Paraphysa maniculata or scotra? "chilean copper"... neat dwarf. Have not seen Paraphysa in years...
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