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Blue Masked Tarantula
🌎New World Terrestrial 🦵Large 🟡Skittish ⚠️Intermediate 🌴Tropical

A New World terrestrial tarantula. Large and skittish, and generally recommended for intermediate keepers. Market price is $80, with 9 live listings across 8 sellers and a lowest ask of $40.

Cuban, moderate to large, with a blue cast that is the reason this genus gets any attention at all.

Terrestrial, burrowing when young, more defensive than the Central American animals keepers expect from the region, and quicker too. New World, urticating hairs present. Growth is reasonable rather than slow.

Lowest Ask
$40
best value listed now
Market Price
$80
trimmed median, recent asks
All-Time Low
$40
seen across all crawls
90-Day Range
$40–$350
low to high
Live Listings
9
at 8 vendors now
Rarity
Ubiquitous
1/10 · seen at 14 vendors ever
Prices as of the last crawl — 3 hours ago ()
The white marker shows where today's best-value listing sits between the lowest and highest price ever recorded. Liquidity: 607 listings / 90d · 14 vendors ever
$40 all-time low best value now: $40 $350 all-time high
Price History — asking prices; a time trend appears as daily crawls accumulate
Each dot = one listing: Female Male Unsexed | – – all-time low – – market price best value now (hover the chart for price · size · sex · vendor · date) (drag across the chart to read any day)
Available Now — 15 listings · click a row to open the seller's page
6 of these are from sellers we exclude from price stats (they list premium display specimens), so the figures above are calculated without them. How we calculate prices
ArachnoEden 💎💎
$40 ❓ shipping
0.5-0.625" U CB View listing
Paladin Exotics 👍
$65 $115 landed
Exotics Unlimited USA 👍
$65 $104 landed
0.33-0.5" U CB View listing
The Defiant Forest 👍
$68 ❓ shipping
FangzTV 👍
$70 $119 landed
Urban Tarantulas 👍
$75 $125 landed
V Exotic
$90 $140 landed
Underdark Inverts
$90 ❓ shipping
Pacific Northwest Arachnids
$95 ❓ shipping
Westside Tarantulas
$125 ❓ shipping
Westside Tarantulas 👍
$175 ❓ shipping
Westside Tarantulas 👍
$305 ❓ shipping
Urban Tarantulas 👍
$320 $370 landed
V Exotic 👍
$350 $400 landed
Westside Tarantulas
$415 ❓ shipping
SellerSizeSexSourceAskShippingLandedDealRarity
ArachnoEden 0.5-0.625" U CB° $40.00 -38% 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics 0.5" U CB° $64.99 $50 $115 👍 1/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA 0.33-0.5" U CB° $65.00 $39 $104 👍 1/10 Buy →
The Defiant Forest 0.75" U ? $68.00 👍 2/10 Buy →
FangzTV 0.75" U ? $70.00 $49 $119 👍 2/10 Buy →
Urban Tarantulas 2 inch ? $75.00 $50 $125 👍 2/10 Buy →
V Exotic Sling U CB° $90.00 +38% $50 $140 👎 1/10 Buy →
Underdark Inverts 1/2" U CB° $90.00 +38% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Pacific Northwest Arachnids 1.25" U CB $95.00 +38% 👎 2/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas 1.5" U ? $125.00 +81% 👎 2/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas ? ? $175.00 👍 5/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas ? ? $305.00 👍 5/10 Buy →
Urban Tarantulas 2 inch ? $320.00 $50 $370 👍 2/10 Buy →
V Exotic ? ? $350.00 $50 $400 👍 5/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas ? ? $415.00 👎 5/10 Buy →
How these numbers are worked out — market price, deal grades, and what they do not mean

Market price is a trimmed median of recent asks for a species — the highest and lowest are dropped before the middle is taken, so one unusual listing cannot move it. Below four asks there is nothing safe to trim, so it is a plain median.

A deal grade compares like with like. A listing is scored against others of the same species, same sex group and same size bucket — never against the species as a whole. A 1" unsexed sling and a 5" confirmed female are different markets, and blending them is how a fair price starts looking like a bargain.

Graded against history, not against today's shelf. The comparison is every ask ever recorded for that group, counted once per listing rather than once per day it sat unsold. Grading against whatever happens to be in stock right now would let a single low-priced arrival drag the median down and re-grade every other seller — a race to the bottom, which is not something a price tracker should cause. Where there is not yet enough history, the live listings are used and the page says so.

The badges:

  • 💎💎 at least 40% below that comparable median — or 20% below and also an all-time low.
  • 💎 20–40% below.
  • 👍 within about 10% of it.
  • 👎 more than 10% above.

Those thresholds are deliberately wide. The same animal at the same size routinely spans about 2× between the lowest and highest seller, so "20% below average" describes an ordinary listing rather than a find.

What these numbers are not. FangTrack sees asks, never sales — nothing here is a record of what anything sold for. A small number of sellers who specialise in premium display specimens are excluded from the calculated figures because their asks are not representative; their listings still appear. Private collection uploads never affect any public number. Shipping estimates are the vendor's stated flat rate added to the ask, not a checkout total.

A grade is information, not advice. Condition, provenance and how well a seller packs a live animal are worth more than a few dollars, and none of them are in the price. More on how this is calculated →