Mature male Avicularia versicolor

[Ranitomeya]

This guy was just a tiny, electric blue spiderling two years ago. He molted into a mature male early this morning.

He's hardened enough to move around and to be gently handled, but he still has a shiny, milky blue exoskeleton coloration that is evident in recently molted, dark-colored tarantulas.




He is one of two Avicularia versicolor slings from a purchase at a reptile expo in the summer of 2012. They're both males, so I'm unfortunately unable to breed him.

 

[DinehCaveman]

Looks good. The A. versicolor is going to be my next T. I just love the Martinique pinktoe.

 

[Bill Myers]

Nice! We've got three versicolor slings that arrived in the mail last week. I can hardly wait for them to get bigger and brighter like yours.

Cheers

 

[papilio_]

Such a beautiful T Ranitomeya! Versis were my very first slings to raise, so I'll always have a special fondness for them. But even for the more objective hobbyist there are IMO few Ts which are as much fun to raise, going as they do through such gorgeous and rather radical transformations in appearance.