Grammostola pulchripes

One of our favourites and again a very slow moving calm Tarantula, with attractive markings and the skeleton pattern down it’s legs.

Slings are easily reared although do take some time to grow but these are a good enough size to go into our spiderling kits now (again scroll down for our recommendations) and chomping down on small crickets, are dead easy even at a sling level,

Thankfully for your wallets, this species is readily available and good value due to the fact they readily breed in captivity, the first recorded breeding was in the USA in 2000. Eggsacks are large containing 600 – 800 on average and spiderlings are good eaters and pretty bullet proof.

Whilt not a fast growing species it is pretty rapid compared to other Grammostola spp. They can reach are adult size at about 3 – 3.5 years where as a G.rosea would be a sub adult at this size at best.

This species has two regional forms. One coming from Argentina that is less hairy than the one coming from Paraguay (R.Gabriel 2005). They may also be a third variation from Uruguay.