Hysterocrates hercules {hercules baboon} care sheet.

[blix]

Can someone that has experience with hercules baboon tarantulas please give me ther care sheet im thinking about geting one.

I live around 40 miles from a guy, who is selling H. hercules - thus he must have experience with the sp. . His list is here:

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showpost.php?p=1441935&postcount=271

Perhaps you could write him a pm, maybe he can help you with some info about the sp.

Good luck.

 

[Zoltan]

Hi Rob,

Large almost round carapace - large, yes, but almost round? According to Smith's descriptions H. didymus has a carapace of 23x23mm, H. laticeps 25x23mm, but the carapace size of the H. hercules type is 36x30mm.

Also, it looks like the spider on the Klaas picture has a distinctly thicker leg IV than leg I, whereas the legs I and IV in H. hercules are approximately equal in thickness.

Click here for a read on the real H. hercules.

Man. I went looking for that book on Amazon and the search yielded one result--used for $637. Awesome...

What's the full title/author's name? Maybe there's another edition...

Yep, that's how much it costs nowadays. Andrew M. Smith 1990. Baboon Spiders - Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. Fitzgerald Publishing, London.

 

[seanbond]

off subject a bit but, doesnt h.scepticus get really big too?
bigger than gigas, crassipes at least? todd had a shipment of monsters way back in 98 or 96 i think.

 

[Zoltan]

You are correct, Sean.

 

[seanbond]

You are correct, Sean.

do you know of any pixs of some?
i looked in that thread but didnt see any.

 

[Zoltan]

Sorry Sean, I don't know of any pics.

 

[Sarcastro]

H.hercules isn't available in the U.S. I've been looking for a while.there are some in Europe and i know of one guy in Australia that has them.but we probably won't see a real one for a while.