Getting an Avicularia versicolor

After falling in love with a beautiful Avicularia versicolor at the BTS show I searched high and low for one.
I'll be getting a young one of about 1.5cm and cant wait for it to arrive.

Who has kept them and can i have some info about thier care please.

Diving into the world of T's

Here is the brood he will be coming from

I have 2 slings, gorgeous, very willing to try and escape, eat well.

LOTS of ventilation and good humidity and you will be fine!

I did a bit of research on these when I was deciding on my first T and I think the general idea is to keep them quite warm with high humidity and LOTS of good ventilation. I saw quite a few photos of slings being kept in small, tall-ish plastic containers with large numbers of air holes at the top and low down on the sides.

But this is what I've read. I'm sure there are lots of people here that know more about these on a more practical level...

lol kuma.. I told you you couldn't just have 1.

scorpion111 wrote:

lol kuma.. I told you you couldn't just have 1.

Ha! It's a bloody addiction! lol

I also own one and I keep it in a verticle tererrarium. They are sooo quick and they jump and I swear its pooped at me. Besides being a bit skiddish mine is fairly docile and absolutely beautiful. Enjoy

Thank you, they should be with me tomorrow!

How many are you getting?

3 slings! It was a good deal, with all the experience on here i'm sure i'll get on fine!

I got one at BTS on Sunday. She is in a tall container with a vertical strip of corkbark sitting on about an inch layer of damp peat mulch, rather like you would keep your forest spec. Scorps in. Loads of holes in screwtop, I was told she would heavily web out the container but so far just a few threads on the substrate. She spends most of the time on the tank side near the top looking down, they can walk up glass with no problems at.all. Good eater too


ENJOY

thanks for the info Barry.

Did you get a sub adult or a sling?

we had a male Avic avic we went to do a bit of maintenance one day and he shot out. I swear all that was missing was the benny hill theme tune as we chased the little fella about the front room!

Loads of LOL! all the talks made me scared to get the waterbowl out of my pokie tank

naah pokies would rather run away. it's the earth tigers that think they are the size of elephants and charge at ya!

Kuma wrote:

thanks for the info Barry.

Did you get a sub adult or a sling?

A sub adult female, Lee at S.Shop reckoned she might grow another inch in diameter including legs. She is a beautiful colour, an iridescent orange with pink toe tips. Lisa is right about them moving fast & escaping, she has already ran up my arm! They can jump & can eject faeces at you if scared. Not aggressive though, just skittish...

They swim pretty well too

Yeah i fell in love with them at Lee's table, there was one particular specimen that was outstanding, it was love at first sight! Lisa's mate brought that one

Bear in mind thats Lee's were wild caught so some of them had a rougher apeparence which will shine after thier next shed

I think they are pretty cute when they walk they look really awkward like they're legs are gunnah get tangled together when they walk. lol

4 of these little beauties arrived today! Yippie! I was only expecting 3

Here's a few pics of one of the little beauties, they look like furry bundles of colourful fluff with legs

LOL They are soo cute I like that you can see the metallic blue on them already, very beautiful.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWW cuteness!

diabollicallycursed wrote:

I think they are pretty cute when they walk they look really awkward like they're legs are gunnah get tangled together when they walk. lol

I see what you mean! They are smaller than my fingernail, were crawling up my arm, round the back and right up my t-shirt sleeve I has to carefully take off my t-shirt and give it a shake lol

hahahaha we had one of our new H. Lividum slings do that to Stigg earlier today!!! it had climbed up his sleeve near his armpit!

CUTE!