Tapinauchenius plumipes

[Robert Jordan]

Advanced search comes up with nothing--is it just me?

What's up with these? Temperament?

I see Swift's has some... I'm wanting to add another arboreal to the colection, other than anything Avicularia...

 

[gumby]

I've got one that's about 4" not sure if its male or female yet. They are the best because I've never had an arboreal that ate like an LP tell this little guy. They seem to grow really fast and I keep it a little less humid then my Avics. Like I said I don't know the sex on this one so the growth rate could just be indication that I have a male.

 

[Mack&Cass]

Do it.

I absolutely love Taps, we have 3 currently with 4 more coming next month (which includes the T. plumipes). We have males and females, and they grow so fast. They also move very fast. Fastest T we have is our T. gigas.

They're pretty chill for the most part, we've only even gotten one threat display and that was from our T. gigas when he was in premolt. During rehousings they like to run around, but they tire pretty quickly. We do their rehousings in the bathroom, and let them run laps around the bathtub until they're tired and then completing the rehousing is a breeze, and they're also pretty handleable at that point.

They also are voracious eaters, like gumby mentioned. I think everyone should have at least one Tap, they're great Ts. They're also out very often because they're always hungry.

Cass