We're up late some nights completing projects and other work for our clients! So not a problem at all.

Tarantula's don't tend to appreciate repti-bark very much, something about the texture tends to annoy a lot of them. With the additional health risks it can present, it's almost frustrating that a lot of pet stores recommend it! Coco husk, aka Eco Earth, Plantation Soil, Coir and a variety of other names it goes under is what we use and recommend. The bricks go for about $3-4 for one, or usually $8-9 for a pack of three, and expand tremendously. It's soft, looks great, and can be easily burrowed into, plus you can always recycle it for plants when the T is done with it.

Here's a good picture of the Common (Avic avic):

http://www.zootours.ca/pages/ourshowanimals/03.jpg

Notice how the legs, carapace and abdomen are all jet black, and the scopulae at the end of each leg is bright pink? These and the Avicularia metallica are sometimes confused in images, because of their similar appearance - the metallica tends to be more bluish in color though, with whitish tips on their setae.

Here's the versicolor:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...color_9_Fh.jpg

Brilliant red and while the body structure is similar in shape, size and fuzziness the overall appearance is quite dramatically different. It was late last night when I posted that previous reply and I mistakenly mentioned the legs being the same color as the carapace. The legs are actually the same color as the abdomen as is made glaringly obvious in the above image! Ours is still a bright blue little girl, so I was working on sleep deprived imagery in my head.