What was your most expensive Tarantula? 💸

I have a few in the $250+ range. My 2 seladonias died. Pretty sure I kept them too humid. I feel terrible about that honestly. I have a female red leg, female Arizona blonde (no idea how much those were as my husband bought them), homoeomma chilense, and a few others but I can’t recall the name at the moment as I’m part of the few in Houston without power still and the heat has fried my brain.

My most expensive Ts are unsexed Xenesthis intermedia for 70€, Cyriopagopus sp. bach ma suspected female for 60€, Harpactira pulchripes confirmed female for 60€ as well, and Brachypelma klaasi confirmed female for 100€

I'm also planning to get some Aphonopelma moderatum slings for my birthday and they probably won't be cheap 😭

My X Intermedia was like 150$ as a sling. Doing awesome and growing. I’d like to get something way fancy but I’m definitely not going to spend 500$ on a sling. Exotics Unlimited has a great collection of rare to the hobby T’s. But they also charge top price. I’d like a Seldonia and a Valhalla, but that price needs to come way the hell down. In time they will be more affordable.

Unsexed Aphonopelma mooreae. 400 ventraly looked female, should know soon tho

$90 bird eater sling that died after a few days

Female regalis juvie for 180

66$ for l4 Ornithoctoninae sp. ho chi minch And 64$ for l1 xenesthis intermedia

So far? $150 for an unsexed G.pulchra. He is male- I’m pretty sure. But he is MASSIVE and healthy and handsome. I’d guesstimate 4 inches on the dls.

$65 for a D. Diamantinensis sling. I desperately want a H. Chilense, but I can't bring myself to spend $175 on an unsexed sling.

T seladonia for 120€, still waiting for it to molt, keeping it pretty good for now, it even made a big trapdoor and it is around 1.5cm

My most expensive had to be my Birupes simoroxigorum female. 450. Still a good price and I got a little adorable male with her for purchase! Named em Benny and Joon (if you get the reference, congrats you’re old like me lol).

Phormingochilus sp. "Sabah red" $399. Although I have a colony of 5 Poecilotheria metallica. Also, could be my C. sp. "Valhalla" $300.

Sarina my red stents tarantula. 135cm legspan worth $350 aud! 18-20 years old!

Xenesthis intermedia as well! $150 for 3ish inches and so worth it! I'm really happy I pulled the trigger and I ha e my fingers crossed for a female

I only have 1 T so idk if I really apply $200 for female green bottle blue

T seladonia, 50CHF. Tiny. Did not survive... Sadly they never started eating at mine. I was heartbroken. Super interesting how much the prices differ in different countries/continents.

135€ for a juvie female Theraphosa blondi

$98 unsexed t blondi 😬 sweet baby tho. (:

$90 for birupes simoroxigorum, sadly passed away. Not sure why but it just never ate and withered away.

Pretty sure my unsexed T. Blondi.

Was marked down from 200 to 150 but I also had the petco discount 20% off. I know I overpaid but I'd been looking for a bit and told myself the only way I get a new T is if I stumble on a blondi and they just happened to have one.

Before that, I think I spent apx 120 on arizona blond, t. apophysis, t. stirmi.

I think the rest were all $100 or less.

A.mooreae, and T.curumim, I believe mooreae was $225 and curumim around $340

My $120 male T Apophysis. Would love to breed him out some day.

My seledonia for 185 and my immanis for 150 and y diversipes 125

My most expensive was a 5 inch female b. Auratum 275. My boss paid for her

First place for me would be $200 for a CBB MF P. cambridgei, she was around 7 years old at the time

Runner ups: - $150 for a gorgeous female Liphistius sp. “Suwat” (while not a T, definitely one of the coolest arthropods I’ve ever worked with) - $100 for a subadult F P. irminia - $100 for a P. metallica sling

I buy most of mine as slings and young juveniles so I typically am not spending hair-raising prices on individual specimens. Edit: ….it helps that I’m buddies with the guys I buy from lol

They’re only about $150-$200 now, but I had purchased a Ornithoctoninae sp. Phan Cay Red a couple years ago. Back when they were $600. Ended up being male :28798:

150 for a 3 inch p. Ornata. Unsexed at purchase but ended up female. Lucky me.

80 bucks for my female desert blonde

Female P. Victori, Female Brachypelma Autori, Female Haploclastus devamatha

4 - 4 1/2 inch female Sericopelma sp azuero for $155. A slow grower and gorgeous so worth the money.

€90 for a female juvenile C. versicolor.

$250 for a 5-yr old female Mexican Fire Leg. She’s now 14-yrs old and worth every penny.

Euthalus manicata gold! 0.25 inch :) i think about $200? its now a well established small female very happy with my purchase!

My female pamphobeteus machala was $160 as a juvenile

My T. Blondi sling which was like half my 3 weeks of work pay and then died on its very first molt. It was absolutely devastating.

The sling was like 2", the enclosure had plenty of cross ventilation and I always made sure the humidity was above 90 at all times. I'm still clueless as to what happened.

Mine were all in the same price region.

I bought an unsexed B. smithi roughly the size of an apricot for 70€. Someone in here identified her as a female a few days ago :-)

I bought a little A. / C. versicolor sling, the size of a 2-(euro)cent coin, also for 70€. It died after 8 months, didn't make it through the summer :-(

Not really a T, but I also have a male Phidippus regius Bahamas. That one was 50€. It was unsexed when I bought it but it was easy to identify it myself

My first tarantula Lily, Brachypelma hamorii. I bought her for about $80, she was around 3 years old and adult size. She’s now about 7 years old and still super cute and calm. ☺️

Cyriopagopus sp valhalla like… 125$? Unsexed but she is a female

Trinidad Chevron sling 15 dollars. She is 6 months old now. I never will understand why people pay two, three, four hundred dollars to adopt a creature that is already a year or two when slings are so much cheaper and you get the joy of watching them grow.

Mine was my Theraposa Apophysis juvenile Female £140

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My most expensive is my gooty ornamental ( p. Metallica) I paid 200$ for it at around 3.5-4 inches.

My biggest deal, was my goliath pink foot. I bought her unsexed for 70 bucks while it was around 6 inches. 3 weeks after buying her, she molted and proved to be a female. Biggest steal of my life.

Paid $150 for a juvenile female GBB this last weekend. She’s my first T and I wanted to be sure I have at least one female 😅❤️