What are your top 3 most beautiful tarantulas? Please include a pic if one has not already been posted of that species.

I'll kick it off with:

- B. auratum: Most tarantulas are not as vibrant as the photos portray. I find the opposite to be true of this species. Very pretty indeed.


(photo taken from here: www.brachypelma.name/B-auratum.htm )

- G. pulchra: Yes, I know it's just a black spider, but I think they are very striking.


(photo taken from www.petbugs.com )

- P. ultramarinus: Just look at it.


(credit to Enomegra from www.arachnoboards.com )


What is your top 3?

1. Lampropelma sp. Borneo black.
Big, black and arboreal.



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2. Xenesthis intermedia
Those colours look surreal

(repticlic.com).

3. Poecilotheria subfusca (Bara) is my favourite, but there is a reason this is the most talked about when it comes to pretties.



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One down, two to go..

P.subfusca "dark form"



C.brachycephalus



A.junodi




Maybe to add to the 3 above, I would put down Idiothele mira and/or Harpactira pulchripes.

P. subfusca (dark form) WOW!!!!!

I'll have to rethink my list now. Maybe replace the auratum with the subfusca.

Shane Visser wrote: P. subfusca (dark form) WOW!!!!!

They not too bad, hey?

Aphonopelma chalcodes


Aphonopelma bicoloratum


Poecilotheria miranda (picture source unknown)


And a few obvious others, mostly blue...