What am I
Carla

What am I

Was sold to me as a striped knee tarantula and now it's not looking so promising, Shes very aggressive, and very fast. Also not sure what those 2 bald spots are. Any info would be awesome
Its an Lp (Lasiodora Parahybana) from your other pic & those bald spots are from it kicking urticating hairs (microscopic barbed hairs used as defense) at some point. They will develop a new set of from each molt.
 
Oh wow, that's kind what I figured but I didn't want to think she was often put in a stressful situation before I got her, to flick hairs. Bummer. If you have a sec could u message me I have a few more questions and pics and I'm really dumb with how this forum works lol,
 
eh, i wouldnt label it off as a LP quite yet, try to get a decent quality pic with out anything in the way.
 
Does it have orange spinnerets? and a lighter bottom than top? orange spinnerets are a dead giveaway for stripe knee (a. seemanni)
 

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