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Heterothele gabonensis

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Gabon Blue Dwarf
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🌍Old World Terrestrial 🐜Dwarf 🟡Skittish ⚠️Intermediate 🌴Tropical

An Old World terrestrial tarantula. Skittish and fast, and generally recommended for intermediate keepers. Market price is $40, with 14 live listings across 13 sellers and a lowest ask of $25.

A West African dwarf old world, communal-tolerant like its Tanzanian congener, and one of very few animals offering that combination.

Under two inches, heavy webbing, semi-fossorial, and quick. Old world, so no urticating hairs; the venom at this size is not the concern the word baboon implies, but the position should be explicit: it is a venomous animal that should not be handled, it is simply not a medically significant one.

Lowest Ask
$25
best value listed now
Market Price
$40
trimmed median, recent asks
All-Time Low
$22
seen across all crawls
90-Day Range
$22–$212
low to high
Live Listings
14
at 13 vendors now
Rarity
Ubiquitous
1/10 · seen at 15 vendors ever
Prices as of the last crawl — 5 hours ago ()
The white marker shows where today's best-value listing sits between the lowest and highest price ever recorded. Liquidity: 1006 listings / 90d · 15 vendors ever
$22 all-time low best value now: $25 $212 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 — 14 listings · click a row to open the seller's page
8 Paws Tarantulas 💎💎
$25 $75 landed
ArachnoEden 💎💎
$25 ❓ shipping
0.5-0.625" U CB View listing
Juice's Arthropods 💎💎
$27 ❓ shipping
1/2 Inch Sling U CB View listing
Paladin Exotics 👍
$35 $85 landed
Hardcore Arachnids 👍
$35 $85 landed
Buddha Bugs 👍
$35 ❓ shipping
Swift's Invertebrates 👍
$39 $88 landed
Wonderland Exotics 👍
$40 ❓ shipping
Eight Deadly Sins 👍
$40 $90 landed
Fear Not Tarantulas 👍
$42 $71 landed
The Mother of Spiders
$45 ❓ shipping
One Love Tarantulas
$50 ❓ shipping
8 Paws Tarantulas 👍
$95 $145 landed
1.5-2.0" View listing
V Exotic 👍
$100 $150 landed
Sub-adult U View listing
SellerSizeSexSourceAskShippingLandedDealRarity
8 Paws Tarantulas 1/2" U CB° $25.00 -29% $50 $75 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 0.5-0.625" U CB° $25.00 -29% 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Juice's Arthropods 1/2 Inch Sling U CB° $27.00 -23% 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics 1.0" U ? $34.99 -13% $50 $85 👍 5/10 Buy →
Hardcore Arachnids 1/4" U CB° $35.00 $50 $85 👍 1/10 Buy →
Buddha Bugs 0.33" U CB° $35.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Swift's Invertebrates 1" U ? $39.00 $49 $88 👍 5/10 Buy →
Wonderland Exotics 3/4" U CB° $40.00 👍 5/10 Buy →
Eight Deadly Sins 1.0" U ? $40.00 $50 $90 👍 5/10 Buy →
Fear Not Tarantulas 3/4" U CB° $42.00 $29 $71 👍 5/10 Buy →
The Mother of Spiders 0.25" U CB° $45.00 +29% 👎 1/10 Buy →
One Love Tarantulas 1/4" U CB° $50.00 +43% 👎 1/10 Buy →
8 Paws Tarantulas 1.5-2.0" ? $95.00 $50 $145 👍 5/10 Buy →
V Exotic Sub-adult U ? $100.00 $50 $150 👍 5/10 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 →