Is There a WHITE Tarantula?

VoodooFuneral

VoodooFuneral

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Years ago, I was watching a nature program with a crew in a rainforest (I don't remember where), doing research. At one point, and at the time, to my horror, one of the guys was playfully placing on the back of one of his sleeping buddies, a hand-sized, very fuzzy (like "Tick" the A. versicolor on Phong's Tarantulas website...but very white in color. Looking back, he was beautiful. I'd like to find out what he was, but at the time, I was intensely arachnophobic and I think I flipped the channel until that part was over.
He was probably an arboreal species (the crew's makeshift lab was a jungle treehouse. I remember that he bobbed along slowly and deliberately, like the Avicularia.

Please help! I want a big, fuzzy, white T of my very own! Please? I promise I'll feed him and take him for walks every day! (Then I will hug him, and squeeze him, and name him George). {D
 
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Blasphemy

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I have never seen a pure white tarantula, but when I read this I thought of N. chromatus because of it's really brilliant white carapace
 
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DR zuum

DR zuum

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I've read a lot of posts on this subject it seems to pop up from time to time,as far as i know as ive never seen one.But i havent seen everything so who knows?I've often thought it might be possible through selective breeding using maybe H.Maculata or S.Calceatum,ive seen some very white looking specimens of these with subdued markings.Maybe selecting only the most white slings with subdued pattern and breeding them,then doing the same with thier offspring once again selecting the whitest with least markings.Maybe in several generations of doing this you might get your white T.Someone put up a pic of a very whitish looking one here somewhere i think it was in germany.But until you create one i leave you with my original post on the subject.



"It was late in the am,on a cold winters night,
when from my slumber,a noise awoke me with a
fright.I staggered from my bed my senses dulled,
but this was no surpriser,for earlier that night
Id killed a fifth of jaegermeister"

"I groped for the light but no illlumination was
found,for the raging storm had blown a power line
down.Again i heard the noise that from my sleep i
was woke.What could it be?To make such racket soar?
I retrieved a flashlight and headed for the door"

As i entered the hallway,i saw the T room door ajar,
had some unknown culprit come to rob my collection,
from afar?I went into the room my gnarled fists balled
rock tight,if there was someone stealing,he was in for
a fight.But to my relief the window was open from the
storm.My anger died as quickly as it was born."

"I drew the window closed,as a chill blew up my shorts,
had to keep my T's warm,they were my best cohorts.But
then again a noise,reached unto my ears,from the kitchen
it came,and thus renewed my fears.So out i went and
down the hallway stalked,and into my kitchen i now
had walked."

"I played the light beam around,from the flashlight in
my hand,trying to catch a sight where the beam would
land,then on the wall,it caught my sight,like the
holy grail,it sat there shining bright.A tarantula,
its species i could not equate,but it had the legspan
of a dinner plate,no markings were on it as pristine
as it could get,sat a pure white tarantula,an albino
heavensent."

"I stood there with my jaw,slack as a pole axed horse,
could my touch with sanity have finally run its course?
I felt like i was Ahab finding his moby dick,i began to
egde closer to insure it wasnt a simple refraction trick.
YES! It was real, a true albino T,upon my kitchen wall
waiting there for me,hee hee.Dollar signs through my
head began to skip and flutter,for a T like this id have
hung my own brother."

"What should i buy first the hummer or the boat,id
be sitting pretty,i began to gloat.For soon id
have it in my hand,the proverbial golden goose,the
key to supply and demand,ha ha turn me loose.Then to
my dismay a glint caught my drunken stare,there was a
metal lid on the counter lying there.And as my dreams
faded,of fame,fortune,power,and then turned lemon sour,
For it was not a true albino,A Pokie'd got in the
flour."




FINI
 
cryptly

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VoodooFuneral said:
That's the closest I've seen. Good possibility. Are they bred in captivity?

~Brenna
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Yep. :D Seen CB slings on dealer's pages many times. :D

It is a very pretty tarantula. . .makes me want to get into arboreals. :drool:
 
moricollins

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as far as "white" sp. there are Xenethis sp white (or weiss) and Metriopelma sp white, there are pictures of both available on this site, just do a search.
 
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There's this guy over in the Tarantula Pictures threads:
Augacephalus junodi

under "MY PICTURE THREAD" by bugsnstuff
 
Dragoon

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Ummm..
why has no one mentioned the H. maculata?
Some individuals are truly white or off white, and not just washed out looking in the right sort of photo.
The Nhandu vulpinus is a very light colored animal too, but its cinnamon looking.
Cheers
D.
 
Randolph XX()

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there was a white C.schoiedeti that Martin Hubber posted ages ago from a German Magzine cover
can Martin or any body post that again?
 
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Dragoon said:
Ummm..
why has no one mentioned the H. maculata?
Some individuals are truly white or off white, and not just washed out looking in the right sort of photo.
The Nhandu vulpinus is a very light colored animal too, but its cinnamon looking.
Cheers
D.
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Yeah, H. maculata can be very white. But she said it was fuzzy. I don't know what it is, but it sounds very neat!
 
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Greg Wolfe

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Fuzzy white aboreal...

A fuzzy white aboreal... man, I would kill for something like that. I have yet to see one with that appearance. There are some rare species out there.
My first thought was Xenesthis sp. (white) too.
 
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Greg Wolfe said:
A fuzzy white aboreal... man, I would kill for something like that. I have yet to see one with that appearance. There are some rare species out there.
My first thought was Xenesthis sp. (white) too.
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sp white is not fully white.....it's sprinkle white when matured
 
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VoodooFuneral said:
I promise I'll feed him and take him for walks every day! (Then I will hug him, and squeeze him, and name him George). {D
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Well - if the spider you are describing is what I think it is, then you can put him back in the tank, and take yourself to hospital before the heart tremors start :D Hug this, or even handle it, and you are asking for trouble.

Sounds like it could be a Heteroscodra Maculata, Togo Starburst to me - often called 'ghost' tarantulas. They are extremely fast, very aggressive, and not at all suitable for the inexperienced. But astonishingly beautiful, and I will look after one myself as soon as I feel I am ready - which isn't yet... :)
 
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rastro111

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there is also the strong posibility that it is a species that is either undiscovered or not in the pet trade (since it was in the rain forest and all)
 
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