My New Spidey

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This is my newest tarantula; I just got her shipped to me this past Thursday. She's an "Argentine Gray-Smoke", or more properly, a Grammostola alticeps, a species still quite rare in captive collections worldwide. She's a BIG girl, over 6 inches in diameter, but like most members of the genus Grammostola, she's very calm and gentle. I actually bought two of these, both females; this is the larger one. The smaller one, about half this one's size, suffered some sort of mishap during shipping and arrived with a rupture in her rear abdomen, which is usually fatal in tarantulas, since these are really very delicate animals. I was able to seal it with Superglue, which is chemically the same as the surgical glue used to close incisions and other cuts in humans and other animals, and so far she seems to be holding her own. Hopefully once she moults, she will be as good as new.



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