ID'ing T blondi slings.

[Ken Kowalski]

Do Theraphosa blondi slings have white feet on the first two pair of legs?
Thanks

[Elaine Ross]

No they dont T. apophysis has pink feet and T. sp. "burgundy" has white I think.

[Ken Kowalski]

That's what I was afraid of. I bought three CB blondi slings and the have light colored feet, just on the first two pairs of legs. Any way to really tell apophysis from "burgundy"? The color of their feet seems kind of subjective.

[wayne balcombe]

i concurr with elaine, Theraphosa spp. "burgundy" have pale almost white tarsus and metatarsus on the front 2 pairs of legs.

the tarsi and metatarsi of T.Apophysis are all pale pink and T.Blondi is of uniform colour on all segments of the legs.

[Ken Kowalski]

i concurr with elaine, Theraphosa spp. "burgundy" have pale almost white tarsus and metatarsus on the front 2 pairs of legs.

the tarsi and metatarsi of T.Apophysis are all pale pink and T.Blondi is of uniform colour on all segments of the legs.

Just for clarification, all the legs on apophysis have pale pink tarsi and metatarsi?

Thanks so much.

[wayne balcombe]

thats correct the tarsi and metatarsi on all 8 legs of T.Apophysis are pink.

not to worry though, with the exception of being advertised wrong when you bought them they are still awsome spiders and are still going to get to that massive size, also from what i've heard T. sp "burgundy" are generally harder to come by and so make them fairly sought after in some areas of the trade.

[Ken Kowalski]

thats correct the tarsi and metatarsi on all 8 legs of T.Apophysis are pink.

not to worry though, with the exception of being advertised wrong when you bought them they are still awsome spiders and are still going to get to that massive size, also from what i've heard T. sp "burgundy" are generally harder to come by and so make them fairly sought after in some areas of the trade.

Thanks, that sounds like a positive ID to me.

[Mrs Linda Street]

Hi Ken, here's a couple of pics of a
T. Blondi sling & T. Apophysis sling, hope this helps.

[Mrs Linda Street]

Apophysis slings. pic will not load, just keeps coming up internal server error, will have to try again later

[wayne balcombe]

hi linda, i kept getting that message the first time i tried uploading a picture on here, i found out i had to compress the image as it was too large.

[Mrs Linda Street]

Hi Wayne, I thought about that, but the Blondi pics are the same size as the Apophysis, I had to try about 10 times to load the Blondi one, I'll give it another go though.

[wayne balcombe]

i just put my pics through microsoft picture manager and compressed them, give it a try it may make a difference.

[Craig Mackay]

Linda, you can just copy the url link from the image in your flickr account if they're up there.

[Ken Kowalski]

Here is the bugger in question

[wayne balcombe]

hi ken, just out of interest how big in leg span is this spider at the moment.

looking at the picture, though not being able to see the other legs clearly, i'd say it could be T. Apophysis...................... could you upload some more pictures? maybe some taken from directly above the spider?