Anyone keep Aphonopelma sp.New River?

8by8

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Had got a sling Aphonopelma sp. New River about 8 years ago and named him Speck because he was so hard to find in his tiny vial. Now he is all grown up, due to mature next year. They were all over the place around 5 or 6 years ago, now not so much. Well any species of Aphonopelma is rare in collections now days aside from chalcodes, seemani, and the occasional hentzi. Moderatum is nice but where is the rest of the genus?
 
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I seem to remember there being a couple of color variants of A. chalcodes, which are New River and something else. I have (and prefer the coloration of) the New River variety.
 
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KezyGLA said:
I had a link somewhere but not sure what I have done with the bookmark. I think @viper69 may still have the info available.
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You know you have been out the game when your most special T isn't so special anymore. Oh well, still has a that special spot in my heart. Must be a color variant of some type because he is not as blonde as the regular type. He is very rusted and has been for years
 
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nicodimus22 said:
I seem to remember there being a couple of color variants of A. chalcodes, which are New River and something else. I have (and prefer the coloration of) the New River variety.
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Yeah its just not the same. I wanna get a girl or two for him but I want offspring with that same color as him. A regular chalcodes may wash out the color? Not sure. I do know if I can find some adult females from a new river strain its on. I really just don't get the fact that the whole genus is very poorly represented in the hobby. There is so many species in the U.S. and there not even being learned about.
 
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8by8 said:
Yeah its just not the same. I wanna get a girl or two for him but I want offspring with that same color as him. A regular chalcodes may wash out the color? Not sure. I do know if I can find some adult females from a new river strain its on. I really just don't get the fact that the whole genus is very poorly represented in the hobby. There is so many species in the U.S. and there not even being learned about.
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I'm not sure how the most detailed, sampled and the best taxonomic revision(or even paper) ever to be on Theraphosidae that took almost 20 years of research warrants "they're not being learned about."

The authors even made it free and open source for us hobbyists. Bookmark that link above and read, read, read. :)
 
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