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🌎New World Terrestrial 🐜Dwarf 🟡Skittish Beginner 🌴Tropical

A New World terrestrial tarantula. Skittish and fast, and generally recommended for beginner keepers. Market price is $40, with 21 live listings across 17 sellers and a lowest ask of $25.

A described species inside the pumpkin patch complex, Colombian, under three inches, with the dark jack-o-lantern abdominal pattern that sells the whole group.

Fast, hungry, a heavy webber, and small enough that a sling container works as a permanent home. New World dwarf, so urticating hairs rather than a threat display, deployed rarely at this size. Undemanding on humidity.

Lowest Ask
$25
best value listed now
Market Price
$40
trimmed median, recent asks
All-Time Low
$18
seen across all crawls
90-Day Range
$18–$200
low to high
Live Listings
21
at 17 vendors now
Rarity
Ubiquitous
1/10 · seen at 19 vendors ever
Prices as of the last crawl — 2 hours ago ()
The white marker shows where today's best-value listing sits between the lowest and highest price ever recorded. Liquidity: 1220 listings / 90d · 19 vendors ever
$18 all-time low best value now: $25 $200 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)
No Longer Listed — last seen at this ask, then absent from the seller's next three crawls. Not a confirmed sale: it may have sold, died, been held back for breeding, or simply been delisted.
~$45 @exotics_unlimited · 2026-08-15
Available Now — 24 listings · click a row to open the seller's page
3 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
Eight Deadly Sins 💎
$25 $75 landed
Feared to Fascinated 💎
$30 ❓ shipping
Ghosty's Tarantulas 💎
$30 ❓ shipping
Josh's Frogs 👍
$35 $75 landed
1/4 inch U CB View listing
One Love Tarantulas 👍
$35 ❓ shipping
TyDye Exotics 👍
$38 ❓ shipping
0.25-0.5" U CB View listing
Imperial Reptiles 👍
$40 ❓ shipping
Paladin Exotics 👍
$40 $90 landed
The Spider Room 👍
$40 $100 landed
ArachnoEden 👍
$40 ❓ shipping
Fear Not Tarantulas 👍
$43 $72 landed
Wonderland Exotics
$45 ❓ shipping
Exotics Unlimited USA
$45 $84 landed
0.33-0.5" U CB View listing
Exotics Unlimited USA
$45 $84 landed
0.33-0.5" U CB View listing
The Mother of Spiders
$50 ❓ shipping
The Mother of Spiders
$55 ❓ shipping
V Exotic 👍
$70 $120 landed
Juvenile U CB View listing
Deadpan Exotics 👍
$70 ❓ shipping
Underdark Inverts 👍
$100 ❓ shipping
The Spider Room
$100 $160 landed
ArachnoEden 👍
$120 ❓ shipping
Westside Tarantulas 👍
$350 ❓ shipping
Urban Tarantulas
$375 $425 landed
Female - young adult View listing
Urban Tarantulas 👍
$425 $475 landed
Adult female MATED/PAIRED View listing
SellerSizeSexSourceAskShippingLandedDealRarity
Eight Deadly Sins 0.25" U CB° $25.00 -38% $50 $75 💎 1/10 Buy →
Feared to Fascinated 1/4" U CB° $30.00 -25% 💎 1/10 Buy →
Ghosty's Tarantulas 0.5" U CB° $30.00 -25% 💎 1/10 Buy →
Josh's Frogs 1/4 inch U CB $34.99 -13% $40 $75 👍 1/10 Buy →
One Love Tarantulas 1/4" U CB° $35.00 -12% 👍 1/10 Buy →
TyDye Exotics 0.25-0.5" U CB° $37.99 👍 1/10 Buy →
Imperial Reptiles 0.25" U CB° $39.99 👍 1/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics 0.5" U CB° $39.99 $50 $90 👍 1/10 Buy →
The Spider Room 1/4" U CB° $40.00 $60 $100 👍 1/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 5/8" U CB° $40.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Fear Not Tarantulas 1/2" U CB° $43.00 $29 $72 👍 1/10 Buy →
Wonderland Exotics 1/2" U CB° $45.00 +12% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA 0.33-0.5" U CB° $45.00 +12% $39 $84 👎 1/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA 0.33-0.5" U CB° $45.00 +12% $39 $84 👎 1/10 Buy →
The Mother of Spiders 0.25" U CB° $50.00 +25% 👎 1/10 Buy →
The Mother of Spiders 0.5" U CB° $55.00 +38% 👎 1/10 Buy →
V Exotic Juvenile U CB° $70.00 $50 $120 👍 2/10 Buy →
Deadpan Exotics 1.0-2.0" U ? $70.00 👍 2/10 Buy →
Underdark Inverts 2" U ? $100.00 -11% 👍 3/10 Buy →
The Spider Room 1.5" U CB° $100.00 +43% $60 $160 👎 2/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 1.75" ? $120.00 👍 3/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas 3.0" ? $350.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Urban Tarantulas Female - young adult ? $375.00 $50 $425 👎 3/10 Buy →
Urban Tarantulas Adult female MATED/PAIRED ? $425.00 $50 $475 👍 1/10 Buy →
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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 →