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Haitian Brown
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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 $55, with 19 live listings across 16 sellers and a lowest ask of $30.

Large, dark, heavy-bodied, and among the more defensive New World terrestrials in common circulation.

It reaches seven or eight inches, grows quickly, eats constantly, and will threat posture rather than retreat, which surprises keepers who expected New World to mean placid. Urticating hairs present and used freely.

Lowest Ask
$30
best value listed now
Market Price
$55
trimmed median, recent asks
All-Time Low
$25
seen across all crawls
90-Day Range
$25–$300
low to high
Live Listings
19
at 16 vendors now
Rarity
Ubiquitous
1/10 · seen at 16 vendors ever
Prices as of the last crawl — 6 hours ago ()
The white marker shows where today's best-value listing sits between the lowest and highest price ever recorded. Liquidity: 1120 listings / 90d · 16 vendors ever
$25 all-time low best value now: $30 $300 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 — 19 listings · click a row to open the seller's page
Sellers name more than one form
Bayahibe
1 listing · $30
Haiti
3 listings · $38–$185
Hispaniola
4 listings · $50–$150
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.
FangzTV 💎💎
$30 $79 landed
Great Basin Serpentarium 💎💎
$32 $97 landed
1.5-2.0" U CB View listing
Spider Shoppe 👍
$38 ❓ shipping
0.75-1.0" U CB View listing
ArachnoEden 👍
$40 ❓ shipping
0.75-1.0" U CB View listing
Hardcore Arachnids 👍
$45 $95 landed
Big Z's
$50 ❓ shipping
Wonderland Exotics
$50 ❓ shipping
Shane's Spiders 👍
$50 $100 landed
Juvenile CB View listing
Buddha Bugs
$50 ❓ shipping
Paladin Exotics
$60 $110 landed
One Love Tarantulas
$60 ❓ shipping
The Spider Room
$60 $120 landed
V Exotic 👍
$90 $140 landed
Grimoire Exotics
$140 ❓ shipping
Underdark Inverts 👍
$150 ❓ shipping
4.5" ♀ View listing
ArachnoEden 👍
$175 ❓ shipping
1.5-2.0" View listing
Shane's Spiders 👍
$175 $225 landed
Juvenile CB View listing
Pacific Northwest Arachnids
$185 ❓ shipping
V Exotic 👍
$300 $350 landed
SellerFormSizeSexSourceAskShippingLandedDealRarity
FangzTV Bayahibe 0.75" U CB° $30.00 -29% $49 $79 💎💎 2/10 Buy →
Great Basin Serpentarium 1.5-2.0" U CB° $32.00 -29% $65 $97 💎💎 1/10 Buy →
Spider Shoppe Haiti 0.75-1.0" U CB° $38.00 -11% 👍 2/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 0.75-1.0" U CB° $40.00 👍 2/10 Buy →
Hardcore Arachnids 1.0" U CB° $45.00 $50 $95 👍 2/10 Buy →
Big Z's 1.5" U CB° $49.99 +18% 👎 2/10 Buy →
Wonderland Exotics Hispaniola 2.0" U CB° $50.00 +11% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Shane's Spiders Juvenile CB° $50.00 $50 $100 👍 2/10 Buy →
Buddha Bugs Hispaniola 1.0" U CB° $50.00 +18% 👎 2/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics Hispaniola 1.5" U CB° $59.99 +41% $50 $110 👎 2/10 Buy →
One Love Tarantulas 1.0" U CB° $60.00 +41% 👎 2/10 Buy →
The Spider Room 1.5" U CB° $60.00 +41% $60 $120 👎 2/10 Buy →
V Exotic ? ? $90.00 $50 $140 👍 3/10 Buy →
Grimoire Exotics Haiti ? ? ? $140.00 👎 3/10 Buy →
Underdark Inverts Hispaniola 4.5" ♀ ? $150.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
ArachnoEden 1.5-2.0" ? $175.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Shane's Spiders Juvenile CB° $175.00 $50 $225 👍 2/10 Buy →
Pacific Northwest Arachnids Haiti 5.0" ? CB $185.00 👎 1/10 Buy →
V Exotic ? ? $300.00 $50 $350 👍 3/10 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 →