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Any news regarding the venom of my favorite T? Rose Hair or Phoneutria in disguise?

Piece of Art

Right... that photo was most probably taken with a strong flash after a molt. Dolichothele rufoniger caught my attention because of your gallery. :happy:

Beautiful! Take a look at its pretty relatives: http://www.birdspiders.com/gallery/index.php/Tarantulas/Oligoxystre-rufoniger-Guadanucci-2007-subadult-female-Brazil

Thanks for your feedback @Arachnid Addicted ! To me this is proof enough. If you ever get a photo of the purplish variation, please post it here. All the best!

@Arachnid Addicted You kept the dark and the green variation yourself. And you have seen the blue variation live at it's keeper. Even more important: You are the photographer of the three pictures in the first post. Is that right? If this is the case, you've convinced me. And my quest...

My quest is on standby. It's complicated. I checked the gallery of Arachnid Addicted. He is legit and has a good reputation. On the other hand it's easy to take photos of all three color variations from the same spider. When my female is in a strong lighted area it looks like the blue or even...

I decided to believe in the color variations and start my quest. One day I will care for females of all colors. And even explore the legend of the purplish diamantinensis. :blackalien: @Arachnid Addicted please continue the research! :)

What a stunner!

You have a lot of experience and good contacts, so you might be right. Nevertheless, I would like to point out that my adult female looks like the dark variation without good lighting or during premolt. And like the green/teal variation with strong lighting or photo-flash. Same effect with many...

D. diamantinensis is my favorite spider and I read all threads about it on arachnoboards. This is the first time I've heard about three color variations and I am very interested regarding this information. There are some tarantula experts on this board... Can you confirm this? Is it "official"?

Roger!

I found this quote...

Thanks for the info!

I read about the Exo Terra problems with Ts at another forum. Somebody asked the community, who really experienced any problems. It turned out, that there was only one case of a spider stuck on the mesh many years ago. Since then no more problems occured, despite a lot of T-owners using Exo...

It didn't kill the desert locus. After the two hours "fight" the spider was on top of it for many hours and I thought she was eating. The next day she was sitting near the webbed locus and I thought she would continue to eat it later. Then the locus started to move slowly and freed itself from...

First meal: I made a small/medium desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) drop her hind legs and fed it to the diamantinensis. It was much smaller than the spider and she grabbed it quickly. It took her nearly two hours to finally kill the desert locus. Bite, web, repeat... So it seems that the...

0.1 adult... she is beautiful! :happy:

(PRESUMABLY) mild venom + urticating hairs absent + unique and beautiful = Dolichothele diamantinensis

The Grym Reaper you have nice enclosures. Your spider seems to web less than others. Do you also consider 12x12x18in as dangerous for diamantinensis? This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. Walter Ulbricht :);):)