Your most EXPENSIVE tarantula

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1hughjazzspider said:
Such a sad sight. You don't know what you're missing my friend.
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haha, I had an Emperor scorpion and I obsessed sooooo much about keeping the humidity levels up and then it died during it's first molt under my care anyway. Maybe some years from now when I am deep into the hobby and have a room just for my T's I'll look into it. Pokies are beautiful spiders.
 
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njnolan1 said:
haha, I had an Emperor scorpion and I obsessed sooooo much about keeping the humidity levels up and then it died during it's first molt under my care anyway. Maybe some years from now when I am deep into the hobby and have a room just for my T's I'll look into it. Pokies are beautiful spiders.
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I hope so. I can think of a few different genera off the top of my head that require the higher humidity and they're all some of my favorites.
 
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Let's say that you want to end up with a mature female. Is it more cost effective to buy one outright for $150, or does it make more sense to buy three unsexed slings for $20 a piece, and hope that one of them is a female?
 
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Introvertebrate said:
Let's say that you want to end up with a mature female. Is it more cost effective to buy one outright for $150, or does it make more sense to buy three unsexed slings for $20 a piece, and hope that one of them is a female?
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Not for me! I don't mind if my slings turn out to be all male! All I want is the challenge and pleasure of watching them grow from tiny little things to large healthy adults! And If one or 2nd them is female,I don't think I will breed them cos the male is my baby too and I don't Wana risk all those years of raising it for it to die a scary death,but I don't know,I might change my mind.
 
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out of all my collection the most i've paid for a spider was my P. subfusca, 1.5" for 95$
everything else is from 0-80

my s. s. dehanee centipede...because I coudn't resist not having one anymore...and it was 85$ and 90$ including tank/corkbark...came to 103$..lol...i kinda did spend too much on it...
 
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I paid a ridiculous, crazy amount for 2 E. olivacea a couple years ago. One mystery died and the other matured male. Probably won't ever do that again, but it was justified in the sense that I have bought a few full collections at low prices, thus allowing the splurge on those 2.
$400 each.
 
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1hughjazzspider said:
My M. balfouri juvie and P. metallica sling were $150 apiece. My adult female GBB was $125 when I got her. And I have two B. schroederi slings and one B. auratum juvie that weren't cheap when I got them and will likely be worth a good amount once they mature, especially if they end up being female. My I. mira slings will be next and we all know those aren't cheap either.
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WHOA!! $150 for a SLING!!:eek: now THAT'S cool!:biggrin:
 
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I don't mind if my slings turn out to be all male! All I want is the challenge and pleasure of watching them grow from tiny little things to large healthy adults!
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The most I ever paid for an individual tarantula was $55 USD for my then ~3.0 inch G. pulchra. My most valuable (as far as Current Retail Price) are the M. balfouri juvies, but I didn't pay CRP for them...
 
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