Soo it's just a rosea?

XBabysinX

Arachnopeon
Joined
Jun 30, 2014
Messages
45
Reading on some of the previous posts on rosea color forms and am under the impression that a "rcf" is just a true rosea, and not so much a color form? Where as the normal is the porteri. Basically saying red color form is just saying it's a true rosea?

All this stems from trying to figure out which mine would be considered. Sold as a rcf however that carapace is really copper. I also think these pictures actually make the coloring look more dull than it is.
 

Attachments

XBabysinX

Arachnopeon
Joined
Jun 30, 2014
Messages
45
Reaaaaally. Wasnt expecting that as I have a porteri and was under the impression they're grey/brown. I wasn't aware a porteri can have such color. Neato.

What makes it a porteri vs rosea then?

(Ps I'm not bein a douchebag. I'm really asking, I know things can be taken all kinds of ways on here)
 

XBabysinX

Arachnopeon
Joined
Jun 30, 2014
Messages
45
Haha the more I research the more I realise these are very hard to answer difinitively.
 

Venom1080

Arachnoemperor
Joined
Sep 24, 2015
Messages
4,611
Reaaaaally. Wasnt expecting that as I have a porteri and was under the impression they're grey/brown. I wasn't aware a porteri can have such color. Neato.

What makes it a porteri vs rosea then?

(Ps I'm not bein a douchebag. I'm really asking, I know things can be taken all kinds of ways on here)
haha its likely your other "porteri" is something else. rosea have reddish hairs all over them, just google a few pics and you'll see.
 

XBabysinX

Arachnopeon
Joined
Jun 30, 2014
Messages
45
Legit, every time I think I know a little something about each of my 13 I realise I do not know as much as I think I do lmao. At least I will NEVER get bored! Here's the porteri
 

Attachments

MeAndMyRosie

Arachnopeon
Joined
Sep 10, 2016
Messages
21
Be glad you don't have a rosea.. they are more moody than the porteri. It goes along with that saying, "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get"... but in this case you never know what mood your gonna get day to day.
 

XBabysinX

Arachnopeon
Joined
Jun 30, 2014
Messages
45
Oh I think in this case it is you never know what your gunna get lmao. Bought 4 Ts for 100 bucks not caring too much if the species I was told was correct except for what I knew was being sold correctly (female b. Smithi) and out of the 4 I only know for certain what two are (smithi and murinus) the others, the sold as a rcf rosea and unknown completely has turned out to be a possible hybrid. Good lord.
 

14pokies

Arachnoprince
Joined
Oct 25, 2014
Messages
1,735
I don't know that looks like a rosea to me.. Can you get a better pic from above and in lighting that shows off her colors as close to natural as you see them..

Porteri have a purple/grayish carapace..
 

sdsnybny

Arachnogeek
Joined
Apr 29, 2015
Messages
1,330
Pictures in post #1 are G. porteri, pictures in post #6 are not. most likely G. sp northern gold but not sure. Porteri even in need of a molt will in the right light have a blue/grey color to the femurs the second pic doesn't show that at all. you can usually see this with a flashlight pointed at different angles. here are 3 of the 7 porteri I have. 2015-08-30 14.32.54.jpg 2015-09-14 14.30.07.jpg 2016-06-18 14.36.39.jpg
 

cold blood

Moderator
Staff member
Joined
Jan 19, 2014
Messages
13,223
Reading on some of the previous posts on rosea color forms and am under the impression that a "rcf" is just a true rosea, and not so much a color form? Where as the normal is the porteri. Basically saying red color form is just saying it's a true rosea?

All this stems from trying to figure out which mine would be considered. Sold as a rcf however that carapace is really copper. I also think these pictures actually make the coloring look more dull than it is.
Reaaaaally. Wasnt expecting that as I have a porteri and was under the impression they're grey/brown. I wasn't aware a porteri can have such color. Neato.

What makes it a porteri vs rosea then?

(Ps I'm not bein a douchebag. I'm really asking, I know things can be taken all kinds of ways on here)
You appear in your op to have a proper understanding.

All your pics look like porteri.
 

viper69

ArachnoGod
Old Timer
Joined
Dec 8, 2006
Messages
17,851
I think IDing Avics in general with a pic or two is flatout foolish. I think the same thing is true of many of the "Rose Hairs" variants that people ask to ID. There are so many variables when it comes to a digital image, and this is not taking into account the stage in the molt cycle the T is in, its age or gender.

I just don't get it.
 

Misty Day

Arachnobaron
Old Timer
Joined
Aug 9, 2013
Messages
437
Your second porteri doesn't have much color cause it looks like it hasn't molted in a very long time. Their colors get more drab the later into their molt cycle they are.
 

XBabysinX

Arachnopeon
Joined
Jun 30, 2014
Messages
45
What a very informative thread. So glad I asked!
Your second porteri doesn't have much color cause it looks like it hasn't molted in a very long time. Their colors get more drab the later into their molt cycle they are.
Believe it or not that was right after a molt.
 
Top