Harpactira Pulchripes Bite ? Extremely bad ?

[Lowkey57]

I found with mine that changing the enclosure made a world of difference. When she was in a smaller container where the whole container was her immediate lair, anything, even my voice bouncing off the wall beside her made her threat pose. I nicknamed her, Her Crankiness. She’s in a larger enclosure now and has made an impressive turret and burrow in the center of it and ventures out to the outer world. And zero threat poses now.

Mine's got a good amount of space, it's just in it's pissy adolescent phase, lol. It'll calm down after it puts on some size

 

[lindale450]

Ah I see, yes!

From my experience keeping many of this species, I can tell you that they are fairly reclusive. Unless the husbandry isnt adequate, I wouldnt put money on them being out in the open much. There are other baboon species that are usually on show more.

When it comes to temperament of H. pulchripes it obviously varies for each specimen. But I keep 4x adult females and they are all nasty as hell and 5 males that are ridiculously fast and skittish. I get threat postures from them quite easily. I have 10 juveniles and all are extremely fast, skittish and spook easy, and the same can be said for the spiderlings.

Even though beautiful they are probably not the best beginner baboon if you are looking for a calmer temperament.

Nasty as hell? Interesting, I have not seen this behaviour from this species, mine are skittish but have never gotten defensive, I have around 90 T’s mostly ow and the only ones I’ve noticed strong defensive behaviour from is Chilobrachys and Cyriopagopus species

 

[David2006]

Every old world has potent venom. Of course it varies from species to species. I would recommend you to look out for bite reports on old worlds, to make a conclusion on which is the less venomous or has the least chance of a envenomation. I can tell you from my experience (even tho its been a few months since i keep a H. pulchripes), that they are not docile at all. It's actually one out of few ts that make me nervous. It's still a sling but bolts like crazy, you better rehouse it inside a box with smooth walls to prevent it from bolting out. But bolting is not enough, it also defends itself sometimes if I wanna feed it. My first old world was a OBT (it's juvenile, still alive, even molted a few days ago). Got it last year and I am very happy with it. It is most of the time outside, even molts outside, but still has a web to hide. It's not defensive or aggressive. It still doesn't mean that every OBT is a Orange Baboon Tarantula like mine, some could be Orange Bitey Things. Same with the H pulchripes. But that's my experience.