The Brazilian Blue Dwarf Beauty Tarantula (Dolichothele diamantinensis) is a brilliantly colored dwarf species from Brazil's Chapada Diamantina region. Learn about its natural habitat, web-building behavior, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Pinktoe Tarantula (Avicularia avicularia) is one of the hobby's most popular arboreal species, known for its pink feet, calm temperament, and beautiful tree-dwelling behavior. Learn about its rainforest habitat, enclosure design, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced care recommendations based on modern captive husbandry.
The Guatemalan Tiger Rump Tarantula (Davus pentaloris) is a colorful New World terrestrial species known for its striking tiger-striped abdomen and active personality. Learn about its volcanic forest habitat in Guatemala, natural history, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Darth Maul Tarantula (Psalmopoeus victori) is a fast arboreal species from Oaxaca, Mexico, known for bold red-and-black juvenile coloration and its unusual status as Mexico’s only known arboreal tarantula. Learn about its habitat, enclosure setup, feeding, temperament, molting, and balanced care recommendations.
The Orange Tree Spider (Amazonius germani) is an uncommon arboreal tarantula from the Amazon region, known for its warm orange coloration and agile climbing behavior. Learn about its rainforest habitat, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Trinidad Olive Tarantula (Neoholothele incei) is a fast-growing dwarf New World species known for its remarkable web-building behavior, olive coloration, and active personality. Learn about its Trinidad habitat, natural history, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations.
The Red Island Birdeater (Phormictopus atrichomatus) is a giant New World tarantula native to Hispaniola, admired for its reddish coloration, rapid growth, and powerful feeding response. Learn about its natural habitat in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations.
The Caribbean Bronze Tarantula (Phormictopus auratus) is a large New World species endemic to Cuba, admired for its metallic bronze coloration, rapid growth, and powerful feeding response. Learn about its unique Cuban habitat, natural history, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Trinidad Gold Tarantula (Neoholothele incei 'Gold') is a colorful dwarf New World species known for its brilliant golden legs, extensive web-building behavior, and fast growth. Learn about its Trinidad habitat, natural history, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Ecuador Purple Bloom Tarantula (Pamphobeteus sp. "Machala") is a giant New World species admired for its spectacular purple iridescence, rapid growth, and impressive size. Learn about its natural habitat near Machala, Ecuador, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Bahia Scarlet Birdeater (Lasiodora klugi) is a giant New World tarantula from Brazil's Atlantic Forest, admired for its scarlet hairs, rapid growth, and impressive size. Learn about its natural habitat, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, temperament, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Chilean Flame Tarantula (Homoeomma chilense) is a beautiful New World terrestrial species from central Chile, known for its warm orange and copper markings, hardy nature, and moderate size. Learn about its Mediterranean habitat, natural history, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Chilean Yellow Flame Tarantula (Homoeomma orellanai) is a colorful terrestrial species from central Chile known for its warm golden markings, manageable size, and calm nature. Learn about its Mediterranean habitat, natural history, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Skeleton Leg Tarantula (Ephebopus murinus) is a unique New World fossorial species from the ancient Guiana Shield, recognized for its cream-and-black leg pattern and unusual urticating hairs located on its pedipalps. Learn about its natural habitat, behavior, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations.
The Costa Rican Zebra Knee Tarantula (Aphonopelma seemanni) is one of the hobby's most recognizable New World species, famous for its bold white-striped legs and fascinating burrowing behavior. Learn about its tropical Central American habitat, natural history, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Purple and Gold Tarantula (Spinosatibiapalpus sp. "Colombia") is a colorful New World dwarf species admired for its metallic purple hues, golden highlights, and active feeding response. Learn about its Colombian rainforest habitat, natural history, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.
The Guarani Giant Tarantula (Grammostola grossa) is a massive New World terrestrial species from the grasslands of Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Learn about its natural habitat, behavior, enclosure setup, feeding, molting, lifespan, and balanced husbandry recommendations for long-term success.