. Cambridge, they are such awesome tarantulas to own!
Any T that ends up on the cover of the British Tarantula Society Journal gets overhyped it seems. There's your T seladonia reason.Over rated: Recently P. Metallica are a little over rated. I feel like OBT's are over rated. They are kind of ugly IMO and to me they are only wanted because of their nasty attitude. T. Seladonia is one that I do not understand the hype over.
Underrated
Aren’t they really difficult to breed? I read that somewhere. There are plenty of slings about usually around the £25 mark for a 1-2cm sling, they are expensive but I assumed that was because of the the difficulty breeding, but practically every spider seller/shop in the uk has slings available so that may not be true. I was lucky as I purchased a 1cm sling for £15 from a really reputable source and when it arrived it was easily over an inch and it’s a great eater, and does daft things! I heard that finding a juvie/SA/A is practically impossible unless it’s through a private sale.
I read a spider shop synopsis of these not long ago and they said that in their opinion c fimbriatus are the prettiest Chilobrachys.
B vagans are deffo underrated, they are beautiful T’s but slings go for like £3 in the uk or are usually given as freebies! I think people just pass them by because there are so many and so cheap.
P Metallica prices have fell dramatically it would seem. The video that Tarantulaguy1976 posted of his Metallica laying her eggs, he made some remark about each egg being worth $400 each and that was probably around 2009.
I have a Y sooretama and she is a stunner!
Even though mine's still a sling, I can already tell that he/she will have a unique personality. Whether it'll be unique "good" or unique "bad" remains to be seen lol. He/she is always re-arranging things near the burrow, opening and closing "viewing holes", and almost always hungry.
Since 2018...have your opinions changed? Any updates?
Nope, those are all still over-rated...of those, the obt is the only one i would even take for free...but theyre still waaaaay over hyped even if i do like them...lividus, LP, and H. mac...i just dont get the hype, one is the plainest looking t there is and the other 2....well, if you cant say anything positive....
You make such reasonable sense.
I get that. Those are probably four of the most common tarantulas that I've heard about on this board. There are others as well, but I feel like I see those very often.
2 years on and all of these still stand, G. pulchra is still an overpriced colour-swapped rose hair, P. cambridgei still manage to be the only species I dislike out of a genus I love, and blue OWs/OBTs are still ridiculously overhyped.
Agreed. Although I do like the m balfouri and wouldn’t mind doing a communal at some point, you hear about them all the time. And yeah dwarfs are sorely underrated. I kind of get it though. Short-lived and some species spend 90% of their time underground. But they’re so stinking cute! Who wouldn’t like them?
Referencing your B. vagans comment about their temperament being "pretty interesting" - what do you mean? Likes to kick hairs? Threat poses easily?OVERRATED
P. metallica - pretty, but there are more attractive blue Ts that aren't nearly as reclusive and are a fraction the price.
A. geniculata - Don't get me wrong, I adore mine, but Nhandu chromatus are almost a toe to toe match for A. geniculata and is the prettier of the two IMO.
C. lividus - sort of following suit with P. metallica and overrated for the same reasons. I'm not sure why these seem so popular with newbies who wanna jump in the deep end head first.
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Most dwarf species - Besides E. sp. Red, most dwarfs seem to fly under the radar despite there being some real gems.
B. cabocla - A personal favorite that I'm seeing pop up a little more often than in the past, but still not much. Very unique looking T, and although mine are skittish, there's rarely a time I walk into my T closet and can't see them hanging out in the open. Look ragged as heck when in need of a molt, but fresh out of one, very few species compare.
B. vagans - Despite the Brachy genus being one of the most popular, I rarely see B. vagans getting the love it deserves. That velvet black could make a G. pulchra self conscious, and accented with those bright red hairs makes it a beautiful T. Great eaters, decently fast growth for a Brachy, and their temperaments can be pretty... interesting.
Haha.
Colors is always debatable, but any tarantula with color has great appearance depending on the lighting you use or have. LED lights tend to get the most color appearance out of any tarantula of most lighting so far in my experience. And while I do agree that they're overrated, I disagree with the "slightly blue" idea.
Males have very noticeable colors once they're adults, but females also have colors as well, but you need to have at least decent lighting to see it.
Good to know. I have been thinking about getting one.
Form your experience, is the OBT out all of the time or mostly just as an adult?
I agree. That is a pretty T!
