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Avice from a pig owner Congrats on your new piggy! I have two, and I love them! First off, Vitamin C drops in water don't work (denatures in sunlight)! They need it from fresh veggies, because it doesn't have a long shelf life in pellets. Mine get a handful of lettuce, grape tomatoes...

My versi did the same thing last summer, I wasn't even sure she was a female until then. Pretty decent evidence though. :)

most of the Avic. sp. look like this as babies... you'll have to wait a while until it's larger to see any decisive color pattern. My Avic. sp. "peru purple" babies look like this, if it's any consolation. The abdomen pattern is a little less distinct and darker on these babies than they are...

Avicularia something... perhaps avic?

very fat rose hair. Grammostola rosea. pretty.

looks like a Brachypelma vagans to me.

Mirror patch on the back of the abdomen is pretty diagnostic of the Grammostola. I'd go with G. aureostriata, but it needs to molt again so there's some clarity to the markings.

also, serious pre-molt. could be why she's trying to bite you.

if it's mites, the bath will make it worse. switch her off the bedding first, and if she's really gross you can use a damp towel to get the worst of the mess off. if changing the bedding doesn't help, you should probably take her to a vet. is her diet ok? and does she have fresh clean water...

The plastic water bottle thing is a hit, but not good for her, as she can swallow pieces of the plastic, and it gets quite sharp. My lab was a bad chewer when she was younger, and hard to potty train on top of that.... but she's much better now. There's hope. She loves those knotted rope...

Could also be A. geroldi.... Avic sp. for sure.

Rodents anyone? I've got guinea pigs right now, but I'm a softie for pretty much all small fuzzies.

If it were a Grammostola though... shouldn't it have the mirror patch? this spider doesn't look to have one, so it may be from another genus.

a sad skinny dehydrated one at that... poor girl

Definitely not an urticans, they have tons of pink setae and are much less blue. I wouldn't guess metallica either. At first glance I would say a. geroldi, it looks too bright blue to be the common a. avicularia. whatever it is, pretty spider.

Looks like A. braunshauseni to me. But the pic isn't exactly the best quality.

urticans is the winner, mine has the most awesome long pale pink hairs everywhere. such a fuzzy beautiful animal. i've got a whole bunch of avics, they all have their pluses. a great genus in my opinion.

I love the brachys, i've got 6 spp. my first instict was to say the boehmei was my fave cause of it's awesome colors... but mine flicks non-stop hairst at me... soooo i went with the emilia, after that i'd say klassi in looks and albopilosum in temperament, although, my vagans is beautiful and i...

Has anyone tried tracking which are males and which are females? a friend and i bought several slings together over a year ago and while mine are getting huge, his really aren't. and if i've molt-sexed them correctly, i've got the boys and my bet is that he ended up with the girls.

could it be a little bit of poo stuck to her underside that she hasn't groomed off? or perhaps the cuticle is just slightly deformed in that spot? i'd be curious to see if it's still there after a molt or two. good luck, i'm sure she'll be fine.