Considering the influx of invertebrate threads lately, I thought I'd make a contribution. These are shots from a photoshoot I did with my Haplopelma species, Petunia. She's not the most docile of tarantulas. I tried to get some full-body shots, but she kept attacking my camera, which produced these:



And since I'm on a roll, here's some older shots of Petunia...


Give you a dollar to pet the spider!

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Reminds me of that really bad black and white move, "Attack of the Giant Tarantula!"
Yep I am definately showing my age on that one!

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LOL, I've seen that movie!

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So what's a Haplopelma in everyday speak? I have a baby white knee + a VERY aggressive Goliath Bird Eater.
I would have more between me and a Goliath than a camera!

That depends on the species Most invertebrate keepers rely more on scientific names than common names because common names are too unreliable. For example, an orange baboon is the same thing as a golden starburst, which is the same as an Usambara red baboon spider, which is the same thing as a Mombasa baboon, which is........ (in all, varied common names for Pterinochilus murinus can include just about any of the following in many combinations: red, orange, gold, golden, starburst, sunburst, baboon, spider, tarantula, Usambara, Usambar, and Mombasa)

In Petunia's case, I'm not sure of her exact species, so she has no common name. I bought her as an "Asian black birdeater" though, but that's pretty much a made-up name, as many are. Two commonly kept and more easily-named Haplopelma species include Haplopelma lividum (cobalt blue) and Haplopelma minax (Thailand black). Even the name "white-knee" is shared by more than one species, so unless you know the species, "white-knee" doesn't really say what kind of tarantula you have. There is only one goliath birdeater though

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Well, Although most spiders are not named correctly, It still gives more info if you call it by It's "Street name". Even if it's not completely accurate. I understand where you're coming from. It's important to be precise, But a lot of people only know their animals by the name that their sellers give them. I'm only looking at it from a practical point of view.

Cool Mat, great pics, how you get the backgrounds so white?

here me and my pink zebra beauty tonight lol, havent bothered to look up the latin name just yet, just know i've been after one for a long long time..sorry pics are a little blurry...

I use a white backdrop, portable fluorescent lights, my camera's white-balance, and photo-editing to get the white backgrounds so white

I'm not sure how to spell it, but I've seen the genus and species spelled these various ways:

Eupalestris
Eupalaestrus
Eupalestrus
Eupalastrus
Eupalestreus

campestriatus
camperstriatus
campestratus
camperstratus

and a few times I've seen other "E" species labeled as pink zebra beauties, but those may actually be real PZB's with the wrong scientific name. I know some Rhechosticta seemanni (formerly Aphonopelma seemani) are sometimes sold accidentally as PZB's, but are really Costa Rican zebra tarantulas (occasionally called zebra-legged or stripe-kneed).

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Yup I was sold an A. Seemani and told it was a pink zebra beauty at the time I was looking for one, only to find out later it wasnt what I wanted, they have different color spinerttes [sp] thats how I found out and also A. Seemani are more aggressive, now I know I have the right T cause of the spinerette color..

Great pics Mat will have to try different backgrounds like that myself when I get a decent camera, my T pics always suck...

Sweet pics Matt!!!

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