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I brought this attractive spider on e-bay advertised as a film pot, a collector trying to get around e-bays silly no livestock rules, don’t they know that us arachnologists look after there spiders. Anyway getting back to the spider, I received it a very tiny sling in pot and for a Brachypelma species it has grown very fast. It lives under a artificial plastic hide which it has dug a burrow in the substrate and has also covered the top of the hide with the coco husk to camouflage its home. So far as a sub adult I never see this spider outside its home on display, it stays hidden, although hopefully this could change when it is a adult, it is a bit skittish, and when I tried to pick it up with my hands it did bite me, more of pinch really enough for me to get the message. As this spider needs more humid conditions than other Brachypelma species, I spray water around the substrate in its enclosure every day. I have not decided if I will keep this spider when I have enough pictures, as it a lovely spider to own, with its velvet jet black colour and long red hair on its abdomen. Andy Newman 10-07-11.
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