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She's my arch-nemesis.Auto correct is an evil mistress.
It took a while to figure it out, but I disabled that on my phone....ahhhh, much better.
She's my arch-nemesis.Auto correct is an evil mistress.
Ah ah, see?P. ornata is ordered and confirmed...
The "real" reason! @boina ANY pokie is worth having! Who can resist their cryptic patterns?You realize we haven't been back to the moon in 40 years...sounds incredible...why don't we go back?
I completely agree with you about P.metallica, IMO overrated as hell.
I'm baffled by the fact that you think that I'll take any colorful T over a brown one.I'm baffled by the fact that a lot of good people doesn't fall in love with a Goddess 0.1 Pelinobius muticus
No, heresy!Right, because seeing an animal with the rarest color in nature is just so common
I'm baffled by the fact that you think that I'll take any colorful T over a brown one.
Hmmmm!!!No, heresy!
Praise the Goddess!
lol, only because you said 'Ciccio' (basically in Italy everyone's called Francesco nickname) instead of "Francesco/Francis" you deserve a 'follow'Hmmmm!!!
Papa Ciccio is your friend, but you worship an arachnid? Where lies your religious convictions?
I do agree, P. metallica is not only overrated, but over-priced as well. 24/7/365 can be bought online, breeders (U.S.) w/h visions of $$$ dancing in their heads. I bought five (5) P. tigrinawesseli 1"+ slings for less than one (1) P. metallica 1" sling. More is better, color for me is secondary. Next pokie for me is P. miranda, not "blue" nor rare, but are sporadically available. Metallica ranks last on my pokie list, I can't justify the price.
I've owned both. But P.Metallica has a special place in my heart. I can't resist blue tarantulas.P. metallica- the smallest of the Poki, and the most gorgeous IMO. or P. rufilata- the largest of the Poki's. I've only owned the latter.
The nice thing about Poki's is they are sexually dimorphic. If you want a female, don't bother buying a bunch of slings, spend your money on one that is about 2". You can sex them ventrally via the dot method. Below is a pic of my rufi with a DLS of about 1.5"
On my rufi the dot was a raised portion of the exoskeleton, looked like a prominent pimple.
I was at a show person selling a bunch of Poki's unsexed. I could look at them all and ID most of the genders, and get a unsexed female at a bargain price. That's what I would do!
Not that I have a pokie (yet), but I do seem to have some kind of setting in my brain that makes "never" rather mean "sooner or later", since all things that I've emphasized I'd NEVER do I've ended up doing... I guess I've learned the hard way that I should be careful around being too determined on the "never"-part, lest I do want to end up doing whatever it may be.As my fiancée would say with respect to my new hobby, "You keep using the word 'never' but I'm not sure you know what that means."
September 2016: "I like the look of that MF P. miranda, but I'm never going to get a pokie. Just too fast for me."
March 2017: I buy that same MF P. miranda, my second pokie after a P. smithi sling I got in January.
Get one you know it makes sense LOL.Not that I have a pokie (yet), but I do seem to have some kind of setting in my brain that makes "never" rather mean "sooner or later", since all things that I've emphasized I'd NEVER do I've ended up doing... I guess I've learned the hard way that I should be careful around being too determined on the "never"-part, lest I do want to end up doing whatever it may be.
I don't remember saying I'll never get a pokie, but I've thought it several times and what have I been doing lately? Eyeing P. rufilata (mostly) and P. metallica with a very strong urge to get one. I'm guessing it's a matter of time before I find myself with pokies in my collection. Still hesitating, but on a scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is I'll never get one even though they're pretty and 10 being I went out and got my first one) I'd say I'm currently on 7 or 8... :wideyed:
Worst part of this is that you're probably rightGet one you know it makes sense LOL.
Of course I am, didn't you know ? ROFLMAOWorst part of this is that you're probably right
P. regalia was always my favorite, even above the P. metallica.So I've finally decided I can't live without at least one Pokie. But there are so many!!! I can't decide what I want and having never kept one I don't know that much about temperament.
So, which one is calmer and less skittish than the rest? Which one is more visible? Which one would you chose? And I know I'm weird, but I don't really like blue spiders all that much, so no P. metallica for me. I like green better. Any green(ish) Pokie?