Spider ID please

[Charlene Elliott]

Hi all
We bought a couple of female T's for breeding purposes.
One of them isnt what we expected so without naming what it was bought as, can anyone id this T?

[Charlene Elliott]

another pic, sorry it wouldnt let me upload 2 pics

[Jay Howdle]

Aphonopelma Char? Or if its that Pulchra, ours looks brown and dirty when its due to molt!

[Stewart Sackley]

HI Jay.

Yes it was bought as a G. Pulchra, but it's not the same colour as the other 4 of them. This one is brown and not black. We have one ready to moult, and it's balding, but still jet black in colour.

We don't have a clue what this is, although it was sold to us as a female G. Pulchra........

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Hi.
If this is the same one at the Arachnoboards, for any positive proposition we shouild wait for the molt - that is possible to tell now is that this is some WC Grammostola spp in the premolt - the coloration is not match the species...
Just wait for the molt.

[Bryan_Dennis]

Had the same thing with a supposed male G.pulchra that i picked up at a trade show last year....I had allready paid for him and wasn't at all convinced when the dealer told me it was a sub adult G.p...We had a little discussion and agreed that i'd take it and if it molted out to anything other than a male G.p i'd not only get my money back but i'd also get to pick a freebie out of his stocklist....

Here he is after i had got him home.



and here he is 7 months later after moult...



Case closed........and no freebie.

[Jay Howdle]

Here you go Char & Stew, the pics of our Pulchra before & after molt......

[Lee Ardern]

I bet you its pure black next moult. Looks like a Pre-moult pulchra to me.

Lee

[tonyelse]

I tend to agree G.pulchra.
Both of mine, prior to maturing were very brown pre moult.