What Was Your First Tarantula?

[Little Grey Spider]

Mine was a .75 in Chaco Golden Knee or Grammostola pulchripes. That was three (maybe 4) years ago and he- confirmed male sadly- is still only about 4 inches. I chose this species because I had read (on Wikipedia ) that they grow very large, are visible often and are very docile. He isn't very visible, but he's a peach. I just adore him. His name is Guinness. Top pic is the day I got him. Bottom pic was last year. He's molted once since then but my recent pics are gone

 

[WildSpider]

My first T is a Grammostola pulchripes sling named Gro. I bought it about a year ago and here you can see it's been rearranging the furniture a little.

 

[lostbrane]

Adult female G. porteri for me.

 

[Bipolar Spider]

P Regalis, very long time ago

 

[KezyGLA]

Hysterocrates gigas

 

[14pokies]

Aphonopelma hentzi...

 

[Ungoliant]

What Was Your First T?

A mature female Avicularia avicularia that I received as a birthday gift in 2013. She passed away due to a bad molt in 2017, but she had a good life with me. (The previous owner said she was seven years old, so if this is correct, she would have been ten when she died.)



The first one I bought was an unsexed 3" Avicularia avicularia that I bought in April 2014. She is female and is now 5".

 

[SpaceM]

My first was a B.emilia about 5 years ago and i'v still got her

 

[FrDoc]

A. geniculata!

 

[spookyvibes]

0.1 Grammostola porteri, aka the queen of my collection I got her 7-8 years ago.

 

[beccadarling]

What I suspect to be a G. porteri, not 100% sure though. I bought her full grown at my kindergarten science fair XD 13 years later and she's still with me. Her name is Noodles (creative, right?).

 

[ShyDragoness]

Brachypelma albopilosum sling and B. albopilosum "juvi" that molted out into a mature male

 

[The Grym Reaper]

B. albopilosum (Honduras), got her as a rather nondescript looking 2" female a little over 2 years ago and now she is an adorable murder floof.

0.1 Brachypelma albopilosum (Honduras)

• The Grym Reaper
• Aug 10, 2018
• albopilosum brachypelma brachypelma albopilosum curlyhair tarantula honduran curly hair

Kitana rocking her new suit.

 

[Marika]

G. pulchra juvie, I got her about a year ago.

 

[Greasylake]

Avic avic, no longer with me.

 

[Garth Vader]

Aphonopelma anax, about 2 years ago.

 

[Whitelightning777]

Mine was C versicolor. He's still going strong today.

 

[Moakmeister]

Regina 0.1 Grammostola pulchripes HMTQ (Her Majesty The Queen)
First ever picture of her as a 2 inch spiderling

First existing picture of Regina

• Moakmeister
• Apr 5, 2018
• 5
• chaco golden knee tarantula grammostola grammostola aureostriata grammostola pulchripes pulchripes

The day I got her on December 28, 2016 as a two-inch sling.

Picture taken today as a 5+ inch subadult

So prettyyyyyyy

• Moakmeister
• Aug 14, 2018
• 1
• chaco golden knee tarantula grammostola grammostola aureostriata grammostola pulchripes pulchripes

 

[Stormsky]

My first was my B. hamorii.

Brachypelma hamorii Rehousing

• Stormsky
• Sep 23, 2017
• 3
• brachypelma hamorii housing

She kept climbing onto the mesh ceiling, so I had to rehouse her to something without mesh.

I splurged on a juvenile female cause I figured she would be my only tarantula... Ah, how naive I was back then.

 

[johnny quango]

My very 1st tarantula was a B albopilosum that was given to me by a friend, i had him until the day he died 6.5 years later.
When i returned to the hobby i started with a B emilia that matured recently he's around 6 years old