Are all the Avicularia Species Docile? opinions of experience?

[greensleeves]

Originally posted by Phillip
My very docile hurriana female.

Now that is one fuzzy T!

Cute, too! I love fuzz, the fuzzier the better!

Greensleeves

 

[Tangled WWWeb]

I have 3 A. laetas and I wouldn't describe any of them as docile.


Here is a pic of one of my females. This was taken sometime after she ate the male and before she ate the eggsac she was holding.

John

 

[Hairyspider]

hurrainia

that is really cool looking.

Is it true the A.metallica's are called white toes?.

I have an Avic.avic that shows a threat posture every time I feed it, it'll grab the cricket from the tweezers, trow up its front legs and try to punk me out.
It's kinda cool, like its saying " come on punk what you gonna do, hu?hu? yea thought so";P

Later

William

 

[Mojo Jojo]

Originally posted by Phillip
My very docile hurriana female.

Phil

Should change the name to A. furriana!

Hmmm...maybe a new addition to the Need 2 get list.

Cool T Phill!

Jon

 

[Martin H.]

Hi,

Originally posted by SpiderTwin

Thats a wicked shot of your A. laeta, do you have any top views of it?

BTW, what did you do to get it to rear up like that?

Taking a photo! =;-)

serious, I can't remember for sure since I took this photo some years ago. I think it was during transfering him in the cage of a female (or during a photo session) – not sure.

all the best,
Martin

PS.: A female with larvaes and fresh molted nymphs in her opened retreat :

 

[SpiderTwin]

Thanks for the reply Martin

Hey Phillip, you have a beautiful hurriana there. My hurriana was also doscile, too bad it ended up being a male. I think I need to get another one of those.


But it sounds to be the consensus that the A. laeta is not a beginner's Avic.

 

[Phillip]

Actually I have had laeta as well and I never had any pissy behavior out of mine. It acted like a typical avic. Perhaps it's the way I handle them or something I don't really know as the ones that have had them rear up I haven't seen what they did to cause it but I can say this. Any T will rear up if it is startled but it doesn't mean that it is aggressive or even likely to bite. If I go poking around inside one of the versi hideouts they will spin around and slap the tweezers but at the same time I can scoop them out into my hand no prob.

Phil

 

[indigoeyes]

Originally posted by Bearskin10
" How many of the Avics actually have pink toes???" All of them, Some are brighter pink then others,

Really? I know the toes are very dominant on avics and urticans and the like. But versicolors don't seem to have the toes. They have pink toe-nails, but not the toes. :?

 

[Bearskin10]

Originally posted by Bearskin10
I have 6 different species of Avics. for a total of 14, all of them are at least 1 1/2" 8 A. Avics., 1 A. Purp., 1 A. Minatix, 1 A. Versi., 2 A. Leatas and 1 A. Bicegoi and have yet to have any of them show the least bit of aggression. Here is a picture of one of my Leatas, best I could get right now as he did not want to stand still

Here I am to open up an old thread, Just to eat my own words:8o . The last couple of weeks both of my Leatas have pose for me just like Martins Picture (gettin fangy with it), But once they come out to play they are just fine , So I think to are just playing the tuff guy , All bark and hopefully no bite .

 

[DR zuum]

Ive kept most of the avic species,geroldi and purppurea,and versi being my favorites,never saw a threat posture or anything like that. I keep them in large enclosures good humidity and warmth with good ventilation as well.

Never a prob females with eggsacs in my experience,will get testy but no open displays like martin showed guess it varies from specimen to specimen but overall id have to say they are docile,with some exceptions.lol

 

[atavuss]

I have two adult female versicolors, the one female that reared an egg sac and had lings running around in her enclosure was VERY defensive and would readily try to bite. once she was separated from her lings and after a period of time she was back to her usual docile self.
I saw Mike "Troll" get bitten by an a. avic that he was trying to handle.
I have several a. braunshauseni and have not seen any defensive behaviour from them yet but they are still only around 2" in size.
Ed