Hmm... why is my C. lividus not blue/green...

[Olan]

Just poked her head out after a recent molt. Was expecting to see some blue and green (supposedly an emerald green). This is definitely not what I was expecting her to look like

 

[Poonjab]

Leave her alone. It isn’t her fault she identifies as Grammostola pulchra

 

[viper69]

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Just poked her head out after a recent molt. Was expecting to see some blue and green (supposedly an emerald green). This is definitely not what I was expecting her to look like

The only ones I've seen that match yours are males, as the species is sexually dimorphic. The females have the gorgeous colors as adults, the males do not.

If you tell me it's a molt confirmed female (100% no error), laid a sac etc etc, then man I can't tell you at all.

https://www.birdspiders.com/gallery...lma-lividum-Smith-1996-male-Chumphon-Thailand


https://www.giantspiders.com/gallery-video/cyriopagopus/

 

[lostbrane]

Either that or it's not lividus...

 

[FrDoc]

The conundrum aside, that’s a gorgeous spider my man.

 

[Olan]

The only ones I've seen that match yours are males, as the species is sexually dimorphic. The females have the gorgeous colors as adults, the males do not.

If you tell me it's a molt confirmed female (100% no error), laid a sac etc etc, then man I can't tell you at all.

https://www.birdspiders.com/gallery...lma-lividum-Smith-1996-male-Chumphon-Thailand


https://www.giantspiders.com/gallery-video/cyriopagopus/

95% sure female by molt. If she ever kicks out her latest molt I should Be able to tell 100% (if not destroyed). But I saw pretty clear spermathecae on last molt.

The conundrum aside, that’s a gorgeous spider my man.

Yeah, she does look awesome

 

[Exotics Unlimited]

Looks more like a c. minax in my opinion. I would say talk to whoever sold it to you.

 

[AphonopelmaTX]

Just poked her head out after a recent molt. Was expecting to see some blue and green (supposedly an emerald green). This is definitely not what I was expecting her to look like

Was it blue or green at one time and turned black or was it always black?

 

[Olan]

Was it blue or green at one time and turned black or was it always black?

Never seen any blue. She was brown, and now getting black. This was her before this latest molt:

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Maybe you got lucky and got a super rare dirt brown colour mutation

 

[Patherophis]

The only ones I've seen that match yours are males, as the species is sexually dimorphic. The females have the gorgeous colors as adults, the males do not.

If you tell me it's a molt confirmed female (100% no error), laid a sac etc etc, then man I can't tell you at all.

https://www.birdspiders.com/gallery...lma-lividum-Smith-1996-male-Chumphon-Thailand


https://www.giantspiders.com/gallery-video/cyriopagopus/

Only mature males look different, before maturing they are as colorful as females! After maturing they look nothing alike as the are very leggy and differently build.
Olan's spider does not match unmature nor mature male of lividus.

subadult male

adult male

 

[Asgiliath]

That honestly doesn’t look like any C. lividus i’ve ever seen coloration wise.

 

[Olan]

Yeah, I’m suspecting Cyriopagopus minax/longipes/“big black”/“Erawan” complex