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paul fleming said:
Good....
Atually mate...they are not.
You next.
I had this argument on the BTS and on Arachnophiles and they tore me a new one.
Joe....I can assure you that you are 100% wrong but please keep this up.
Be lots of fun here.....you against the UK spider world
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Paul, can you not admit when you are wrong? We all make mistakes sometimes, its ok. I make mistakes all the time. I sometimes find that things I always thought were correct, are actually not.

For example, I embarrasingly enough didnt know that tarantulas are actually spiders. I have always been misinformed that Ts are not considered spiders.

See, I admit that I was wrong and take it as a learning experience.
 
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Hey Widow ;)

As soon as I get home ill show you a Blondi with OVER 5" body lenght and a solid 11" leg span. Female.

Actually the one gravid that I have might even bigger than that parahybana too ;)
 
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Heh, actually "T's" are not tarantulas. The only real tarantula is the
Lycosa tarantula. The name was given for the region of "Tarento".
 
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Fran said:
Heh, actually "T's" are not tarantulas. The only real tarantula is the
Lycosa tarantula. The name was given for the region of "Tarento".
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Yes, I know. He didn't say "Ts" were not tarantulas, he said they were not spiders. A statement incorrect for either Lycosa tarantula or the theraphosidae family.
 
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Fran's was a monster!

Hey y'all, No joke. Fran's big female was a monster! Fran, while you're at it, show 'em your big smithi girl. I'm betting that one would win hands down in proportionately stockiest class. He knows how to grow 'em-that's one thing for certain. :worship:

I've got some recent ones taken of my big girl but.........since I'm a stupendously cyber-illiterate moron and very tired at this time, I'll get around to that chore later.

Terry
 
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If we're talking taxonomically, Ts are in the spider order. But if we're going by whatever leads us to call Araneomorphs "true spiders", then I suppose they're technically not. What would a good analogy be? Capybaras being rodents?

My blondi is still a little thing :D
 
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Fran...that is truly huge...but

Philth has one of the most enormous T. blondi specimens I've ever seen. It even made it to documentary television on History Channel's "Monster Quest: Monster Arachnids!" (a show I worked on, btw! :D )
 
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So far this is the biggest I have ever seen
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She got a little bit bigger than this, check the body lenght, (5")

PS: SORRY PAUL FLEMING ;)
 
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