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Phormictopus auratus

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Cuban Bronze
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🌎New World Terrestrial 🦵Large 🔴Defensive ⚠️Intermediate 🌴Tropical

A New World terrestrial tarantula. Large, defensive and fast, and generally recommended for intermediate keepers. Market price is $58, with 21 live listings across 14 sellers and a lowest ask of $30.

Blue as a sling, bronze-gold as an adult, and it grows faster than nearly anything its size.

A well-fed juvenile can be a five-inch spider inside two years, which is genuinely unusual and satisfying if patience is not your strength. Bold, defensive, terrestrial, and it takes prey with a violence that startles first-time owners.

Lowest Ask
$30
best value listed now
Market Price
$58
trimmed median, recent asks
All-Time Low
$22
seen across all crawls
90-Day Range
$22–$280
low to high
Live Listings
21
at 14 vendors now
Rarity
Ubiquitous
1/10 · seen at 17 vendors ever
Prices as of the last crawl — 4 hours ago ()
The white marker shows where today's best-value listing sits between the lowest and highest price ever recorded. Liquidity: 1257 listings / 90d · 17 vendors ever
$22 all-time low best value now: $30 $280 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 — 25 listings · click a row to open the seller's page
4 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
Sellers name more than one form
Cuba
7 listings · $30–$150
Haiti
1 listing · $50
Caribbean
3 listings · $55–$58
Read from each seller's own listing title. These are asks currently listed, not a market price — the market figures above cover the species as a whole.
Buddha Bugs 💎💎
$30 ❓ shipping
ArachnoEden 👍
$40 ❓ shipping
Wonderland Exotics 💎
$45 ❓ shipping
Fear Not Tarantulas 👍
$45 $74 landed
Exotics Unlimited USA 👍
$45 $84 landed
0.5-0.75" U CB View listing
Exotics Unlimited USA 👍
$45 $84 landed
0.5-0.75" U CB View listing
Paladin Exotics
$50 $100 landed
Hardcore Arachnids
$50 $100 landed
The Mother of Spiders 💎💎
$55 ❓ shipping
V Exotic
$55 $105 landed
Spider Shoppe 👍
$58 ❓ shipping
Spider Shoppe 👍
$58 ❓ shipping
1.5-2.0" U CB View listing
The Spider Room
$60 $120 landed
1"-1.5" U CB View listing
Juice's Arthropods 👍
$64 ❓ shipping
2 Inch Sling U View listing
Underdark Inverts 👍
$65 ❓ shipping
Paladin Exotics
$80 $130 landed
ArachnoEden 👍
$90 ❓ shipping
Underdark Inverts 💎💎
$100 ❓ shipping
Underdark Inverts 👍
$100 ❓ shipping
Cory's Creatures 👍
$150 $200 landed
ArachnoEden 👍
$175 ❓ shipping
1.5-2.0" CB View listing
Westside Tarantulas
$350 ❓ shipping
Urban Tarantulas 👍
$600 $650 landed
female - 5in beauty - wow View listing
Westside Tarantulas
$650 ❓ shipping
Urban Tarantulas 👍
$700 $750 landed
Female - 6in + beauty - display specimen!! View listing
SellerFormSizeSexSourceAskShippingLandedDealRarity
Buddha Bugs Cuba 0.75" U CB° $30.00 -33% was $45 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 1.0" U CB° $40.00 -11% 👍 1/10 Buy →
Wonderland Exotics Cuba 2.0" U CB° $45.00 -30% 💎 1/10 Buy →
Fear Not Tarantulas 1.25" U CB° $45.00 $29 $74 👍 1/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA 0.5-0.75" U CB° $45.00 $39 $84 👍 3/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA 0.5-0.75" U CB° $45.00 $39 $84 👍 3/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics Haiti 1.5" U CB° $49.99 +11% $50 $100 👎 1/10 Buy →
Hardcore Arachnids 3/4" U CB° $50.00 +11% $50 $100 👎 1/10 Buy →
The Mother of Spiders 3.0" U ? $55.00 -45% 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
V Exotic Caribbean Sling U CB° $55.00 +22% $50 $105 👎 3/10 Buy →
Spider Shoppe Caribbean 3.5" ? $58.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Spider Shoppe Caribbean 1.5-2.0" U CB° $58.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
The Spider Room 1"-1.5" U CB° $60.00 +33% $60 $120 👎 1/10 Buy →
Juice's Arthropods 2 Inch Sling U ? $64.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Underdark Inverts Cuba 2" U ? $65.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics Cuba 2.5" U ? $79.99 +25% $50 $130 👎 1/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 2.0" ? $90.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Underdark Inverts Cuba 2" ♀ ? $100.00 -43% 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Underdark Inverts Cuba 4.5" ? ? $100.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Cory's Creatures Cuba 2.0" ? $150.00 -14% $50 $200 👍 1/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 1.5-2.0" CB° $175.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas 2.75" ? $350.00 +100% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Urban Tarantulas female - 5in beauty - wow ? $600.00 $50 $650 👍 1/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas Adult ? $650.00 👎 1/10 Buy →
Urban Tarantulas Female - 6in + beauty - display specimen!! ? $700.00 $50 $750 👍 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 →