Favorite Species

[widowmaker03]

Color me the horse of a different color, brachyphelma are my favorite. I love the orange colors of Smithi, boehmei, and emelia. They get big (though not huge). The life spans are what is amazing though... My girl is 10 and she is still a young lady. I would comment on poecilotheria as well, for pattern diversity, size, and color there are few as vibrant as them. Some are also good display spideys as they love to hang out. But the maintenece and upkeep of poeci spiders is a little exhaustive, and rehoming can be a nightmare. Poeci spiders are by far the one genus of spider I have had the hardest time rehoming (one even got out and went under the bathroom sink for a good month or 2. It came out, we caught it, but it died shortly after its molt). Brachs all the way, though if your feeling some what adventurous, get a poeci or 2. I'm sure all of us here will tell you, you cant go wrong with an 8 legged friend.

On that note, it is the crazy ones that go for the centipedes... I would take a poeci bite over some of those centipede bites... I hear they are excrutiatingly painful, and I have seen the youtube videos of them eating tarantulas. I would never own one, I may have a misconception about them, but for some reason... I dont think im too far off... At least as far as the excrutiatingly painful bite... Scorpions I could take or leave... But I don't think they live near as long as my brachy babies.

 

[SuzukiSwift]

That's an impossible question haha I like all Ts for many reasons! haha I think I can narrow it down to four or five...

A.versicolor
B.auratum
C.fasciatum (yes I'm a fan too haha)
All Haplopelmas and Chilobrachys
P.irminia
P.muticus
S.calceatum

My gosh see? I can't do it lol I want to add more to the list lol

 

[bscheidt1020]

Color me the horse of a different color, brachyphelma are my favorite. I love the orange colors of Smithi, boehmei, and emelia. They get big (though not huge). The life spans are what is amazing though... My girl is 10 and she is still a young lady. I would comment on poecilotheria as well, for pattern diversity, size, and color there are few as vibrant as them. Some are also good display spideys as they love to hang out. But the maintenece and upkeep of poeci spiders is a little exhaustive, and rehoming can be a nightmare. Poeci spiders are by far the one genus of spider I have had the hardest time rehoming (one even got out and went under the bathroom sink for a good month or 2. It came out, we caught it, but it died shortly after its molt). Brachs all the way, though if your feeling some what adventurous, get a poeci or 2. I'm sure all of us here will tell you, you cant go wrong with an 8 legged friend.
On that note, it is the crazy ones that go for the centipedes... I would take a poeci bite over some of those centipede bites... I hear they are excrutiatingly painful, and I have seen the youtube videos of them eating tarantulas. I would never own one, I may have a misconception about them, but for some reason... I dont think im too far off... At least as far as the excrutiatingly painful bite... Scorpions I could take or leave... But I don't think they live near as long as my brachy babies.

I don't know if a centipede could tackle a big P Muticus or P Antinous….that seems like it would be quite a fight! My little P. Regalis and H. Maculata were both well behaved during rehousing. My OBT on the other hand…..jailbreak!

 

[Shrike]

Honestly, I love the entire genus, but if I had to choose...Psalmopoeus irminia

 

[sugarsandz]

I'm a Brachy person as well, my emillia is my favorite looks wise, I'm enjoying the color change as it molts into adulthood lol. This might seems silly but my second favorite is my Aphonopelma sp. New River, I love the browns on her.