The species being sold in Canada as Grammostola grossa doesn't have the pinkish-red setae on them - they are solid black... or more of a silver black. Definitely no trace of red/pink setae.
@Vanessa like I said in the thread I made, there are 2 types of G. grossa in the hobby, one from Uruguay and another one from Brazil. I think yours is the uruguayan (is that a word?) type.
@Arachnid Addicted I've never seen the one you've posted in Canada. Even the locale of grossa that I have is very uncommon to come across. I have a 4" female, and a very small male, so I will hopefully be able to do some breeding in the future.
We all just have to be very diligent to be breeding two spiders of the same species and same locales. People are just willy nilly breeding all over the place and I am getting the impression that most of them just don't give a damn. It is extremely depressing. Nobody wants to make any effort anymore.
@Vanessa in the thread I made I said there 2 different individuals from Brazil named G. grossa, in the hobby. One of these individuals is the same as the uruguayan G. grossa (which is known there as G. iheringi). New information there I gathered recently says that the brazilian and uruguayan ones, might or might not be the same, meaning now there are some doubts about them.
So, there's a possibility that, in pet trade, we have 3 different individuals from different locations named as G. grossa. The uruguayan one is only known as G. iheringi in Uruguay, outside the country, everyone treats them as G. grossa.
This really unfortunate, many (if not most) keepers dont give a damn about where the species (in general) in pet trade came from. Using this G. grossa issue as an example, IF these individuals were proven to be different species, we'd probably have many hybrids already. It's sad, indeed.
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