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Phormictopus sp. 'Dominican'

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Dominican
🌎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 $99, with 15 live listings across 14 sellers and a lowest ask of $50.

Hispaniolan, blue as a sling, and it fades into a bronze-purple sheen as an adult that most buyers did not expect.

It grows faster than almost anything its size. A well-fed sling can be a five-inch spider inside two years, which is genuinely unusual and satisfying if you dislike waiting. Bold, defensive, and it takes prey with a violence that startles people.

Lowest Ask
$50
best value listed now
Market Price
$99
trimmed median, recent asks
All-Time Low
$45
seen across all crawls
90-Day Range
$45–$450
low to high
Live Listings
15
at 14 vendors now
Rarity
Ubiquitous
1/10 · seen at 18 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: 796 listings / 90d · 18 vendors ever
$45 all-time low best value now: $50 $450 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 — 21 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
Juice's Arthropods 💎
$50 ❓ shipping
1/2 Inch Sling U CB View listing
FangzTV 👍
$65 $114 landed
Urban Tarantulas 💎💎
$68 $118 landed
4-1.25" U CB View listing
TyDye Exotics 👍
$68 ❓ shipping
0.75-1.25" U CB View listing
Shane's Spiders 👍
$70 $120 landed
Spider Shoppe 👍
$72 ❓ shipping
The Spider Room 👍
$75 $135 landed
3/4"-1" U CB View listing
Hardcore Arachnids 👍
$75 $125 landed
Buddha Bugs 👍
$80 ❓ shipping
V Exotic
$100 $150 landed
The Mother of Spiders
$100 ❓ shipping
Paladin Exotics
$110 $160 landed
Pacific Northwest Arachnids 👍
$125 ❓ shipping
5.0" CB View listing
Westside Tarantulas 👍
$150 ❓ shipping
Exotics Unlimited USA 👍
$175 $214 landed
2.0-2.5" U CB View listing
Exotics Unlimited USA 👍
$175 $214 landed
2.0-2.5" U CB View listing
Grimoire Exotics 👍
$180 ❓ shipping
Westside Tarantulas 👍
$250 ❓ shipping
Westside Tarantulas 👍
$575 ❓ shipping
Juvenile CB View listing
Westside Tarantulas
$750 ❓ shipping
Westside Tarantulas 👍
$1500 ❓ shipping
SellerSizeSexSourceAskShippingLandedDealRarity
Juice's Arthropods 1/2 Inch Sling U CB° $50.00 -30% 💎 3/10 Buy →
FangzTV 1.0" U CB° $65.00 -13% $49 $114 👍 1/10 Buy →
Urban Tarantulas 4-1.25" U CB° $68.40 -61% $50 $118 💎💎 3/10 Buy →
TyDye Exotics 0.75-1.25" U CB° $68.40 👍 1/10 Buy →
Shane's Spiders Sling U CB° $70.00 $50 $120 👍 3/10 Buy →
Spider Shoppe 0.5" U CB° $72.00 👍 3/10 Buy →
The Spider Room 3/4"-1" U CB° $75.00 $60 $135 👍 1/10 Buy →
Hardcore Arachnids 3/4" U CB° $75.00 $50 $125 👍 1/10 Buy →
Buddha Bugs 0.75" U CB° $80.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
V Exotic Sling U CB° $100.00 +41% $50 $150 👎 3/10 Buy →
The Mother of Spiders 1.5" U CB° $100.00 +33% 👎 1/10 Buy →
Paladin Exotics 1.0" U CB° $109.99 +47% $50 $160 👎 1/10 Buy →
Pacific Northwest Arachnids 5.0" CB $125.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas ? ? $150.00 👍 2/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA 2.0-2.5" U CB° $175.00 $39 $214 👍 3/10 Buy →
Exotics Unlimited USA 2.0-2.5" U CB° $175.00 $39 $214 👍 3/10 Buy →
Grimoire Exotics ? ? ? $180.00 👍 2/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas 4.0" ? $250.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas Juvenile CB° $575.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas 4.0" ? $750.00 👎 1/10 Buy →
Westside Tarantulas 8.0" ? $1500.00 👍 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 →