Tarantulas and Spiders

:tears: noooo! I just looked in on my T's and i've got a dead A. Minatrix. I thought it was going to molt last night it was laying on its back/side and now he is upright all balled up. I nudged it with a transfer stick a few times and got no reaction what so ever. :tears:

Awh no good!

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That sucks :(
Those are cool Avics.

Aww...:( Damon im so sorry to hear that . Was it a sling?

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I just looked them up. A.minatrix are very cool!! Im thinkin i might want one of those. I read that they are kinda rare. Are they fragile? Avics are just so gosh darn cool...im thinkin they are my fave genus.

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im still learning so i'm not sure how fragile avics are. the pink toe I had from my friend seemed pretty hardy. It wasn't a sling but it was the smallest one that I had picked up last Sunday in that lot. it was about 1.5" leg span. the rest are about 2"-2.5". I think it had the brightest pattern out of all of them.

In general, i dont think avics are fragile, but then again there are like 10+ species of avics, so there may be some less hardy ones?

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been doing some home work on the different types of Avics. heres the different ones that pop up on a google search. Theres not a lot of info on most with out digging for a good bit on each one specifically. there seems to be a lot of debate on identifying wild caught avics. the biggest problem being when they are shipped to the united states they are normally labeled just as pink toes and then the importer/wholesaler looks through them and labels them based on his/her knowledge. so realistically most of us have no clue as to what we have. we just take it for granted that the person that sold it to use knows what they have.


Avicularia affinis (Nicolet, 1849) — Chile
Avicularia alticeps (Keyserling, 1878) — Uruguay
Avicularia ancylochira Mello-Leitão, 1923 — Brazil
Avicularia anthracina (C.L. Koch, 1842) — Uruguay)
Avicularia aurantiaca Bauer, 1996 — Peru)
Avicularia avicularia (Linnaeus, 1758) — Costa Rica to Brazil, the Pinktoe tarantula
Avicularia aymara (Chamberlin, 1916) — Peru
Avicularia azuraklaasi Tesmoingt, 1996 — Peru
Avicularia bicegoi Mello-Leitão, 1923 — Brazil
Avicularia braunshauseni Tesmoingt, 1999 — Brazil, the Goliath pinktoe
Avicularia caesia (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Puerto Rico
Avicularia cuminami Mello-Leitão, 1930 — Brazil
Avicularia detrita (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Brazil
Avicularia diversipes (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Brazil
Avicularia doleschalli (Ausserer, 1871) — Brazil
Avicularia exilis Strand, 1907 — Suriname
Avicularia fasciculata Strand, 1907 — South America
Avicularia gamba Bertani & Fukushima, 2009 — Brazil
Avicularia geroldi Tesmoingt, 1999 — Brazil
Avicularia glauca Simon, 1891 — Panama
Avicularia gracilis (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
Avicularia hirschii Bullmer, Thierer-Lutz & Schmidt, 2006 — Ecuador
Avicularia hirsuta (Ausserer, 1875) — Cuba
Avicularia holmbergi Thorell, 1890 — French Guiana
Avicularia huriana Tesmoingt, 1996 — Ecuador, the Ecuadorian woolly
Avicularia juruensis Mello-Leitão, 1923 — Brazil, the Yellow-banded pinktoe
Avicularia laeta (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Brazil, Puerto Rico
Avicularia leporina (C. L. Koch, 1841) — Brazil
Avicularia metallica Ausserer, 1875 — Suriname, the White-toe tarantula
Avicularia minatrix Pocock, 1903 — Venezuela, the Venezuelan redstripe
Avicularia nigrotaeniata Mello-Leitão, 1940 — Guyana
Avicularia ochracea (Perty, 1833) — Brazil
Avicularia palmicola Mello-Leitão, 1945 — Brazil
Avicularia parva (Keyserling, 1878) — Uruguay
Avicularia plantaris (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Brazil
Avicularia pulchra Mello-Leitão, 1933 — Brazil
Avicularia purpurea Kirk, 1990 — Ecuador, the Ecuadorian purple
Avicularia rapax (Ausserer, 1875) — South America
Avicularia recifiensis Struchen & Brändle, 1996 — Brazil
Avicularia rufa Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945 — Brazil
Avicularia rutilans Ausserer, 1875 — Colombia
Avicularia sooretama Bertani & Fukushima, 2009 — Brazil
Avicularia soratae Strand, 1907 — Bolivia
Avicularia subvulpina Strand, 1906 — South America
Avicularia surinamensis Strand, 1907 — Suriname
Avicularia taunayi (Mello-Leitão, 1920) — Brazil
Avicularia tigrina (Pocock, 1903) — Uruguay
Avicularia ulrichea Tesmoingt, 1996 — Brazil
Avicularia urticans Schmidt, 1994 — Peru, the Peruvian pinktoe
Avicularia velutina Simon, 1889 — Venezuela
Avicularia versicolor (Walckenaer, 1837) — Guadeloupe, Martinique, the Antilles pinktoe
Avicularia violacea (Mello-Leitão, 1930) — Brazil
Avicularia walckenaeri (Perty, 1833) — Brazil

I think they are labeled as more of a fragile species just because you need the right humidity vs venting.
When the animal becomes smaller and smaller its harder and harder to tell if something is wrong.

I lost a pederseni a couple of weeks ago. I don't think it's common to have one die out of the blue but once you start getting some numbers, its bound to happen here and there.

Look up Avicularia juruensis
I wouldnt mind a pair of those :)

HoFR, check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzP6aVs30Vo

I want a Pamphobeteus Antinous. Saw on in a fb arachnid group, do want.