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Theraphosa apophysis

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Pinkfoot Goliath Birdeater
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🌎New World Terrestrial 🦵Large 🔴Defensive Advanced 🌴Tropical

A New World terrestrial tarantula. Large and defensive, and generally recommended for experienced keepers. Market price is $120, with 8 live listings across 8 sellers and a lowest ask of $100.

The third goliath, Venezuelan, with pink tarsal tips as a juvenile that fade with age, and arguably the leggiest of the three.

Everything hard about the genus applies without discount: genuine sustained humidity or failed molts, and urticating hairs at the top of the hobby's irritation scale, capable of respiratory effects in a closed room. Experienced keepers mask up. New World, and the hairs are the defence it actually uses.

Lowest Ask
$100
best value listed now
Market Price
$120
trimmed median, recent asks
All-Time Low
$87
seen across all crawls
90-Day Range
$87–$350
low to high
Live Listings
8
at 8 vendors now
Rarity
Ubiquitous
1/10 · seen at 14 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: 538 listings / 90d · 14 vendors ever
$87 all-time low best value now: $100 $350 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 — 9 listings · click a row to open the seller's page
1 of these is from a seller we exclude from price stats (they list premium display specimens), so the figures above are calculated without it. How we calculate prices
Pacific Northwest Arachnids 👍
$100 ❓ shipping
Shane's Spiders 👍
$110 $160 landed
Great Basin Serpentarium 👍
$115 $180 landed
2.0-2.5" U CB View listing
Josh's Frogs 👍
$120 $160 landed
1 inch U CB View listing
The Spider Room 👍
$125 $185 landed
Creepinn Family 👍
$130 ❓ shipping
Urban Tarantulas 👍
$165 $215 landed
Males - juveniles CB View listing
Wonderland Exotics 👍
$300 ❓ shipping
Juvenile CB View listing
Buddha Bugs 👍
$325 ❓ shipping
SellerSizeSexSourceAskShippingLandedDealRarity
Pacific Northwest Arachnids 2.0" U CB $100.00 👍 5/10 Buy →
Shane's Spiders Sling U CB° $110.00 $50 $160 👍 5/10 Buy →
Great Basin Serpentarium 2.0-2.5" U CB° $115.00 $65 $180 👍 5/10 Buy →
Josh's Frogs 1 inch U CB $119.99 $40 $160 👍 1/10 Buy →
The Spider Room 1.5" U CB° $125.00 $60 $185 👍 1/10 Buy →
Creepinn Family 1.5" U ? $130.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Urban Tarantulas Males - juveniles CB° $165.00 $50 $215 👍 1/10 Buy →
Wonderland Exotics Juvenile CB° $300.00 👍 1/10 Buy →
Buddha Bugs 4.0" ? $325.00 👍 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 →