Hi everyone, back again with 2 new additions.

[Albert Clark]

Welcome back T! Missed you and your expertise.

[Tsubaki]

Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy

Welcome back Tsubaki!

Thank you El-Ziggy, glad to be back

Originally Posted by reptiledude987

Good to have you back!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by eminart

Beautiful spider. I've heard lots of good things about G. pulchripes. I have a G. pulchra sling myself. He/she was only about 1 inch when I got him. I've had him a few months and he's probably about 2 inches now. He eats like a horse, but is a slow grower.

Awesome! Do you have any pictures of him/her up? i love their black velvet look, can't say i will be able to withstand buying a nice female if i happen to see one! And they are slow growers, however the male according to the seller, grew pretty rapidly.

Originally Posted by prairiepanda

Are those CB? It takes several years for Grammastola spp to get to that size, so it's always lucky to find large CB individuals.

By the way, I've never seen enclosures like that before! Did you build them yourself?

The female is capture bred, comes from Germany. The male, was bought by a store as a spiderling and raised to this size. According to the seller (s)he grew so rapidly that he is extremely surprised it looks like a male, but i did not ask where it came from t.b.h.

About the enclosures, i do make backgrounds myself and for others. However, these are polyester cast and i don't use polyester myself. (I only carve backgrounds) Since i was too busy making backgrounds for my snakes, i've had these cast for me

Originally Posted by Albert Clark

Welcome back T! Missed you and your expertise.

Thank you Albert, that's kind of you to say

[eminart]

Originally Posted by Tsubaki

Awesome! Do you have any pictures of him/her up? i love their black velvet look, can't say i will be able to withstand buying a nice female if i happen to see one! And they are slow growers, however the male according to the seller, grew pretty rapidly.

I actually don't have any recent photos of the G. pulchra. I'll try to get some soon. Here's one from a couple of months ago. He's molted once since then. He's much darker now, but not the deep black of an adult yet.



And here's my daughter's B. albopilosum. He's actually molted at least a couple of times since this photo and is probably close to 3 inches now.



And, our A. metallica. He was a freebie when we bought the other two. This is a recent photo. He was much smaller and lighter-colored a few months ago.