Awesome addition, pissed off owner

A friend gave me a few very valued pets today. I was supposed to get them on Saturday. The USPS really dropped the ball on this one. I got off work, got two hours of sleep, and waited for my package. After three hours, I went outside to see if I could see any postmen wandering about, and I found a note saying sorry we missed you. I was ten feet from the door, thanks for knocking. Today, yes Tuesday, after Sunday and Columbus day, I finally get my package. I'll share the bad news first
I opened the container to the Grammostola pulchripes, or chaco golden knee, and found it had died from a really ugly ruptured back end. It was well packed, the container must have taken a very serious banging. So, my friend paid $28.90 for two spiders, one of them a casualty, to get to me four days later. I'm pissed. This is crap to say the least, but I don't think you guys wanna hear the words I really want to use. Late and banged up, not cool. I found out my friend kept the chaco for ten years and figured it would be better off in my care, man do I feel bad about this.
Now for the good news, the one that made it

Poecilitheria ornata










Her new home, and she still wants to sit in the packing cup

Aw... that poor little thing. Shes been in there so long, she made it her home.
I am so sorry to hear the other one didn't make it. I would be raising 9 kinds of Hades with that. That was absolutely ridiculous!!
(UPS driver would have been held hostage until I got answers to who drop kicked the box.)

thats really sad and i was told from UPS told me they wasnt allowed to ship any kind of animals anymore and i was also told that if anyone got caught shipping any there would be a fine they did the same crap when i was shipped the snappers the guy swong the box and didnt bother to look to see it said live animal inside i gave the guy bell for it but this last time i was going to mail a turtle and i was then told its forbidden to ship any animals thru ups and if caught could be fined

I remember Sherry.And didn't you have to revive one of the little snappers?

Oh by the way the one that survived is sure a good looking Trantula.It sure has cool markings.

yes i did

Well, here's a little update. She did some exploring but always retreated back to the shipping cup when the sun came up. After about six days, she found the plastic hollow log that was in the back corner, and has made that her home. In the last few days she's been hanging out on the outside of that log. I've given her some crickets, hoping to fatten her up a bit. She hasn't eaten asside from that for about a month. Granted, she ate well. This female was mated by one of my males...and it turned into a dinner and a date Hopefully I can fatten her up, convince her its monsoon time, and she'll drop a sac. I added a large and colorful, thick stick for climbing and aesthetics. I'll get more pictures in time

Here is a photo of her still in the shipping cup


Here she is at night exploring


Here is her underside

well she looks abit happyer out of the bowl

She sure is good looking, love her markings.

She's gorgeous, and one of the more colorful from her genus. She's very very venomous, one of those you don't want to get tagged from, and semi sorta pissy too. If anyone were to get into this genus of tarantula, I'd recommend Poecilitheria regalis. Again, very venomous, but way more relaxed.
Here is one I'm really proud of, still small, but rare and uber expensive. Not as expensive as its cousin, P. metallica, but expensive, and gorgeous. When it gets bigger, you'll see the same light colors, but dark black zig zag stripes, very nice looking

Poecilitheria subfusca