w After an anxious wait we received our two babies this morning
a C.cyaneopubescens

and a G.pulcheripes

Hopefully they will grow into this

and one of these

Eugh. I hope they don't eat moscas!

I am assuming the second is a Goliath but what is the first?

Edit: BTW they are great, wish I still had one 🙁

Catchy names.

if they came near me I would kill them – if I had a 9ft long club – and i mean the baby ones.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

No just crickets and meal worms Si 😀

Shakey, the first is also know as a Green Bottle Blue and the second in a Chaco Golden Knee. The chaco will be big though, up to 22cm ish if female.

Bought here is you fancy getting one again
http://www.thespidershop.co.uk/insect/index.php

cyaneopubescens

ha ha… does that translate as cyan pubes? 😆

Ah phew. In the rainforests I saw a tarantula, and it was the size of a dinner plate tip of leg to tip of leg. Never realised they could get that huge!

it was the size of a dinner plate

Look on the bright side Si, at least when they get that big they can't run very fast. They just have to lurk in your sleeping bag instead. 🙂