Not all of them are slow growing. Grammostola pulchripes is medium and actaeon, iheringi and grossa are all medium/fast. And some of them can easily get 7"+ and look even more impressive because of their glorious bulk. They are definitely faster growing, and get larger, than Brachypelma overall. Plus, they are always out where you can see them once they reach a decent size.
I guess I'm just comparing relatively the ones I've kept (porteri, rosea, pulchripes, pulchra) to bigger, faster growing Ts like Lasiodora sp, A geniculata, and T blondi. My avatar is my 10 year old G pulchripes, which seems to be taking her sweet time molting and refuses food pretty regularly in the interim between molts. It's like she went from sling to maturity fairly quickly and then went into power-saving mode lol. She definitely grew faster than my B hamorii! She is pleasantly chunky though compared to everything else I've kept. Neat to hear that there are some faster growing species in the genus, definitely worth checking out!
Would have bet that you were more of a Theraphosa kind of guy
Just one is pretty brutal but the P.muticus is my favorite tarantula. I do love my theraphosas too though, why just one? Lol
Your basically limiting yourself to one single spider though.
No I didn't. My favorite tarantula is the P.muticus therefore my favorite genus is the pelinobius. I don't regret my answer the least, best old world fossorial EVER!Your basically limiting yourself to one single spider though.
So many other genera with more species, you effed up lol.
Only joking of course, you do you.
All the undescribed theriphosidae/theriphosinae speciesYour basically limiting yourself to one single spider though.
So many other genera with more species, you effed up lol.
