Good Grief - I Need to Stay Off Kijiji

[VanessaS]

Just browsing this afternoon on my lunch and there is a brand new tarantula ad close to where I work.
Two B. smithi and one B. albopilsum for sale for $80cdn. They guy needs them gone 'ASAP'. He has to move back in with his parents tomorrow and they can't go with him. He had snakes advertised as well. I hope he finds good homes for them and doesn't just take the first offer like he did with the tarantulas. Good thing I am a spider friend.
I reply that I can pick them up tonight by 6:30pm, but I can only do $50.
The two B. smithi are in very tall containers with very little substrate. They are modified tall fish tanks. The B. albo is in a small plastic shoebox type box. All three are around the 3" mark and he said he had them for about three years.
I know that nobody wants to guess sex, but I couldn't help but take a few shots because both were on the sides of the tank near the top. I couldn't turn down the opportunity.
I've never had any of the famous Brachy's with the red going on. They are very pretty.

B. albopilosum

Smaller of the two B. smithi

The larger one.

 

[Enn49]

Congrats on getting 3 lovely Ts

 

[VanessaS]

They are really pretty in person. I don't know why I have avoided them for so long. I guess because they are always so expensive and I wanted others who were more affordable.

 

[Kymura]

So happy for you! Beautiful!

 

[Enn49]

I'd never thought about buying a B.albo as they always looked so dull but I got a freebie and fell in love, I now have 3. As for B. smithi both my son and I have one. You'll definitely enjoy having them.

 

[justdon]

Good deal for you.They all look awesome.

 

[MassExodus]

One hell of a deal. Congratulations

 

[VanessaS]

You just have to look at those two B. smithi and they're kicking hairs at you. I'm hoping that they are just stressed from the car ride and will calm down.

 

[Thistles]

That sounds more like a reason to check it more often! Great saves! Looks like a pair, too.

 

[VanessaS]

That sounds more like a reason to check it more often! Great saves! Looks like a pair, too.

That's kinda what I thought too. Whenever they look different, I figure that there are one of each.
This is the second time this has happened to me and I am beginning to think that the cosmos is trying to send me a message to start breeding (which I am not ever going to do) - first my boy/girl pair of G. pulchripes and now these two smithi might be a pair as well... might be. I have noticed that one smithi is bigger than the other, the male G. pulchripes is very obviously larger than the female, and he said that the smithi started out the same size. I understand that the males normally will grow faster than the females.
I just like knowing their sex as soon as I can so I can monitor the males and not do anything to accelerate their maturing.

The two G. pulchripes cost me two hours driving and $40. The same guy had a female B. smithi for sale for $150 which I didn't take. Now I get three tarantulas for $50 and an hour driving. Even if all three turned out males - that is a deal that you can't pass up. If even one turns out to be female, then this was an epic deal.

 

[kormath]

smithi are usually docile, i'd guess they're still a bit pissed about the move. Awesome T's those, one of my favorite Congrats on the hell of a deal.

 

[Thistles]

The top pic looks like a female and the bottom looks more male. I think that makes the bigger one the male? It doesn't always happen that way, but it does sometimes.

 

[Phil]

You just have to look at those two B. smithi and they're kicking hairs at you. I'm hoping that they are just stressed from the car ride and will calm down.

My smithi is exactly the same. Always has a friar tuck bald patch. Take the old skin out and she starts flicking at me and creates a whole new bald spot for the next 9 months or so.....lol

 

[Phil]

That's kinda what I thought too. Whenever they look different, I figure that there are one of each.
This is the second time this has happened to me and I am beginning to think that the cosmos is trying to send me a message to start breeding (which I am not ever going to do) - first my boy/girl pair of G. pulchripes and now these two smithi might be a pair as well... might be. I have noticed that one smithi is bigger than the other, the male G. pulchripes is very obviously larger than the female, and he said that the smithi started out the same size. I understand that the males normally will grow faster than the females.
I just like knowing their sex as soon as I can so I can monitor the males and not do anything to accelerate their maturing.

The two G. pulchripes cost me two hours driving and $40. The same guy had a female B. smithi for sale for $150 which I didn't take. Now I get three tarantulas for $50 and an hour driving. Even if all three turned out males - that is a deal that you can't pass up. If even one turns out to be female, then this was an epic deal.

Some of my beer deals have been when an hour or so driving is all that is stopping you from deal of the century. Excellent purchases.

 

[Entity]

smithi are usually docile, i'd guess they're still a bit pissed about the move. Awesome T's those, one of my favorite Congrats on the hell of a deal.

Mine sure isnt he is an arsehole! no air flicking, bites at me often! lol

 

[kormath]

Mine sure isnt he is an arsehole! no air flicking, bites at me often! lol

Lol nice! I'm hoping mine had a bit of an attitude.