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Yesterday was the British Tarantula Society Exhibition in Birmingham. It was my first show and all I can say is WOW you have to careful with your wallet.
I could have spent £100 a minute easily.
After a long queue to get in, I was very pleased to find that both halls were packed with traders from the UK and Europe - lots of dour humourless Germans. (joke!)
Plenty of decent-sized adult spiders on show, all at pretty reasonable prices - the only thing I would have called extortionate were the (extremely rare and desirable) Poecilotheria metallica spiderlings at a nut-busting £140 each from some garlic-munching, wine-swilling Frenchman. (another joke, before the French start having a go too!)
No way am I paying that - I'll wait until one of my contacts breeds his and starts knocking them out at a far more reasonable rate.
So, onto what I actually bought myself.
First up, a fat-arsed little Greenbottle blue (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) I've wanted one of these for so long now, and couldn't resist.
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Chromatopelmacyaneopubescens04
Next we have another long-standing fave, and a very similar looking sling - Tiger-rump Doppelganger (Cyclosternum fasciatum)
I swooped down on these and bagged the biggest one at the whole damn show - the Germans were flogging minute ones for £7 a shot, and my beast was only £6!
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Cyclosternumfasciatum05
Then we have a lovely arboreal tarantula - the Trinidad Chevron.
These are from the same family as the stunning Suntigers, but are an overall fawn colour with mossy green markings. Nippy, aggressive, and grow to a healthy six or seven inches. At £2 who could refuse?
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Psalmopeuscambridgei02
Right, that's the easy stuff dealt with, now here are the trickier ones.
Anyone want to hazard a guess at this little beastie?
It's actually a deep ultramarine blue with golden orange hairs, it's aggressive as hell despite being about half an inch long!
I know what it is, or at least what the guy SAID it was......
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Mystery01
And another mystery - all I can tell you about this one is it looks nothing like the adult it will hopefully become:
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Mystery02
Any guesses?
I could have spent £100 a minute easily.
After a long queue to get in, I was very pleased to find that both halls were packed with traders from the UK and Europe - lots of dour humourless Germans. (joke!)
Plenty of decent-sized adult spiders on show, all at pretty reasonable prices - the only thing I would have called extortionate were the (extremely rare and desirable) Poecilotheria metallica spiderlings at a nut-busting £140 each from some garlic-munching, wine-swilling Frenchman. (another joke, before the French start having a go too!)
No way am I paying that - I'll wait until one of my contacts breeds his and starts knocking them out at a far more reasonable rate.
So, onto what I actually bought myself.
First up, a fat-arsed little Greenbottle blue (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) I've wanted one of these for so long now, and couldn't resist.
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Chromatopelmacyaneopubescens04
Next we have another long-standing fave, and a very similar looking sling - Tiger-rump Doppelganger (Cyclosternum fasciatum)
I swooped down on these and bagged the biggest one at the whole damn show - the Germans were flogging minute ones for £7 a shot, and my beast was only £6!
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Cyclosternumfasciatum05
Then we have a lovely arboreal tarantula - the Trinidad Chevron.
These are from the same family as the stunning Suntigers, but are an overall fawn colour with mossy green markings. Nippy, aggressive, and grow to a healthy six or seven inches. At £2 who could refuse?
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Psalmopeuscambridgei02
Right, that's the easy stuff dealt with, now here are the trickier ones.
Anyone want to hazard a guess at this little beastie?
It's actually a deep ultramarine blue with golden orange hairs, it's aggressive as hell despite being about half an inch long!
I know what it is, or at least what the guy SAID it was......
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Mystery01
And another mystery - all I can tell you about this one is it looks nothing like the adult it will hopefully become:
http://www.donsroom.co.uk/~lopez/Mystery02
Any guesses?
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