- This New World Opportunistic Burrower is from the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
- The adult size is 8"+.
- As adults, the carapace is black with copper highlights. Femurs are velvety dark blue. The rest of the tarantula shows shades of gray with beige to white setae, and the males increasingly get a beautiful emerald green.
- These are an incredibly calm species for slings. As we were unpacking them, they (very) calmly walked out of the straws, into their new homes, and started to explore. Even when I touched them with a brush, or when a roach touched them, they just moved away slowly and calmly, NOT like a sling at all!
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- The adult size is 8"+.
- As adults, the carapace is black with copper highlights. Femurs are velvety dark blue. The rest of the tarantula shows shades of gray with beige to white setae, and the males increasingly get a beautiful emerald green.
- These are an incredibly calm species for slings. As we were unpacking them, they (very) calmly walked out of the straws, into their new homes, and started to explore. Even when I touched them with a brush, or when a roach touched them, they just moved away slowly and calmly, NOT like a sling at all!
- fawr-mik-TO-puhs