So, we were at the pet store and I had been looking at this tarantula for a while. It's a gorgeous blue color that I couldn't get over. I've already owned 2, but one was a juvenile (Pink Toe Tarantula; Avicularia avicularia) that died after a bad molt. Pink Toes don't do well in captivity and have a high mortality rate. The other one I've had for almost 2 years and she's doing good.
They had warned me not to touch it because they're super aggressive and venomous. I touched it any way, because certain breeds don't care and it almost bit me. I guess people wonder why you get something you can't touch. It's not like that, I admire it because it's beautiful and I like looking at them. I don't plan on trying to touch it again. But almost after getting stung I gained a deep respect for this animal.
For the next month or so I thought about getting this animal. I kept going back to the pet store and looking at it. I had developed some kind of liking to it despite almost getting bit. This weekend I told my girlfriend that I was going to get it and she totally agreed. I told the guy we know, who worked there, that I jokingly had developed a love/ hate relationship with this spider. It was 80 dollars. We had a 5 gallon tank already and I thought it was going to be almost impossible to rehouse this tarantula, because they're very uptight and can go 0 to 90 at a second's notice. But it wasn't difficult at all.
They mainly hide in the ground during the day but will come out at night to prowl around. I watched it for a bit wonder it's new terrarium late last night.
It's a Cobalt Blue Asian Tarantula (Cyriopagopus lividus) . I don't have any good pictures of it on my phone but this is what it looks like:
I don't know the sex yet. Females stay blue after maturity. Males are an ashen bluish gray and will turn a bronze color during mating season and develop hooks on their legs. I guess I'll know in a year or so on whether it's male or female. Sexing tarantulas is really difficult and often you have to look at their molts to see their gender parts. I had to wait until my Curly Hair (Tliltocatl albopilosus) molted to find out that it was female after inspecting it's discarded exoskeleton.
They had warned me not to touch it because they're super aggressive and venomous. I touched it any way, because certain breeds don't care and it almost bit me. I guess people wonder why you get something you can't touch. It's not like that, I admire it because it's beautiful and I like looking at them. I don't plan on trying to touch it again. But almost after getting stung I gained a deep respect for this animal.
For the next month or so I thought about getting this animal. I kept going back to the pet store and looking at it. I had developed some kind of liking to it despite almost getting bit. This weekend I told my girlfriend that I was going to get it and she totally agreed. I told the guy we know, who worked there, that I jokingly had developed a love/ hate relationship with this spider. It was 80 dollars. We had a 5 gallon tank already and I thought it was going to be almost impossible to rehouse this tarantula, because they're very uptight and can go 0 to 90 at a second's notice. But it wasn't difficult at all.
They mainly hide in the ground during the day but will come out at night to prowl around. I watched it for a bit wonder it's new terrarium late last night.
It's a Cobalt Blue Asian Tarantula (Cyriopagopus lividus) . I don't have any good pictures of it on my phone but this is what it looks like:
I don't know the sex yet. Females stay blue after maturity. Males are an ashen bluish gray and will turn a bronze color during mating season and develop hooks on their legs. I guess I'll know in a year or so on whether it's male or female. Sexing tarantulas is really difficult and often you have to look at their molts to see their gender parts. I had to wait until my Curly Hair (Tliltocatl albopilosus) molted to find out that it was female after inspecting it's discarded exoskeleton.
Last edited by a moderator:
