Other Australian Spiders

[Bradley Dreaver]

Hey guys I am back with more questions. 1. is there any good places to buy cheap enclosures and 2. Does Australia have any Arboreals or other spider species other than tarantulas in the hobby?

 

[Arthroverts]

This might be better posted in the True Spiders and other Arachnids sub-forum. @RezonantVoid, @Rhino1, @Oompoofishy, and @Dennis Nedry should be able to help you out with other spiders that are in the Australian hobby though.

Hope this helps,

Arthroverts

 

[Bradley Dreaver]

oh sorry I put it in the wrong forum lol my bad

 

[Dennis Nedry]

1. Best option is make them yourselfmor just buy cheap plastic tubs from a hardware store

2. We don’t have any truly arboreal tarantulas in the hobby but we’ve got arboreal funnel webs that pop up for sale every now and then and huntsmans are pretty common. Also have all sorts of true spiders and non theraphosid mygalomorphs that get sold on facebook

 

[Rhino1]

Yeah Google is your friend, look at places like JJs little stings, minibeast wildlife, the insectory, I buy and sell on Gumtree a lot. We have cool huntsman species which are good fun to keep cos they are active I can source you large banded huntsman's if you like, holconia sp.
This girl below was awesome and passed away with a DLS of 17 cm, she would leap on prey items from one side of the tank to the other and did it to me a few times whilst fiddling around her enclosure, she was a crack up haha
Phlogius tarantulas tend to be more visible than selenotypus and you can tweak your enclosure to encourage them to make web tents and stay more visible.
Like this P.hirsutus below, has a burrow but never uses it, this is her main chill spot

 

[RezonantVoid]

Australia literally has the greatest selection of non-T spiders you can find in any one country. For primitive arboreals we have the northern and southern tree funnelwebs, and like 2 species of tree trapdoors. Otherwise there's huntsmans, jumpers, flat spiders, and many more. We have some absolutely beautiful burrowers though; N.Salanitri, any Arbanitis sp., and Idiommata sp. to name a handful. Like @Rhino1 mentioned, Huntsmans are probably the best way to got for arboreals as a beginner, I wouldn't even consider moving onto Cerberea group Atracidae like the northern and southern trees until at least a year of experience with something like H.Valida. Cerberea is especially game and probably wouldn't mind taking your misplaced finger instead of a cricket

 

[Stefan2209]

If i'd be based in Australia, i'd like to keep Megadolomedes. Also you have native Deinopis species, which are quite fun to keep.