Brachypelma Smithi

Dreadlockrasta

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Brachypelma Smithi Please read and answer! thanks :)

Hi everybody!

I came here, because i dont know if i did a good deal. A few days ago my b. smithi turned out to be an adult male, he is a very beautiful big smithi. I decided to swap him for a girl. Things happend so fast, and now i have a girl. The dealer told me that this T is beeing adult for 1,5 months. I wonder why just her half carapax is black? It isnt should be the whole black? Maybe they laied and its an old girl? :S I hope they didnt ramp me. Please some capable tell me something about that. Thanks! Sorry for my bad english, i hope it was understandable!

Here are the pictures

My male smithi:
http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-1003-290.html

My new girl:
http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-1003-291.html
 
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ImDeadly

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It doesn't appear to anything to be alarmed about. Looks fine to me. No two T's look the same.
 

Shell

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Yep, that's a normal looking B. smithi. Nothing to worry about.
 

Dreadlockrasta

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Thanks for the answers. But I read a lot about the carapce and i already think that shes maybe an brachyeplma annitha

B. Annitha: This specie is sometimes mistaken for Brachypelma smithi due to their markings on the legs. But there are difference on their carapace where in the B. smithi has a black carapace while B. annitha has no black at all.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L1DquqKDx0I/TaLNgg7YO2I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/w16NV2-_xeM/s1600/anitha.jpg


I would like to mate her, but i dont want to make hybridis....
So i dontt know what to do. :S
 

JadeWilliamson

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I say B smithi. The patella on yours is much lighter in coloration than the B anitha in question. Probably more significant is the fact that the B anitha has some light orange on the metatarsus near the joint between it and the tarsus whereas your B smithi has no such markings. I agree with Chris, Shell, and Jessy.

Carapace identification is good for Pokies though, yeah?
 

synyster

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Carapace identification is good for Pokies though, yeah?
It's not a reliable way to identify a species in particular. The best way is to ID by the leg markings.

HERE is a link to drawings of leg markings.

HERE is a link to ventral shots of most species in the Poecilotheria genus.

HERE is the difference in the knee markings on B smithi and B annitha
 
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