Semi-social Pygmy Tarantula (Coremiocnemis sp.)
- Regular price
- $75.00
- Sale price
Key Characteristics & Behavior of Semi-social Pygmy Tarantulas
- Size: Females grow to a 30 mm body length with a leg span of over 65 mm. Mature males are shaggy, brown, and have stocky legs.
- Semi-social Behavior: Unlike most solitary tarantulas, mothers cohabitate with and care for their offspring and siblings for over a year (up to 18 months). Mothers even share captured prey held in their chelicerae (mouthparts) with the young.
- Habitat: They build extensive silk sheet networks and short burrows sheltered under rocks and logs.
- Handling & Temperament: They are mildly venomous, skittish, and act as "pet holes" that spend most of the daytime hidden, coming out at night to hunt by vibration. Direct handling is not recommended.
Semi-social Pygmy Tarantula (Coremiocnemis sp.) Care & Husbandry
- Enclosure: A secure, lockable acrylic enclosure (around 30x30 cm or a nano habitat).
- Substrate & Humidity: Moist coco-peat substrate maintaining 60%–80% humidity.
- Temperature: Optimal range is 20°C–26°C.
- Diet: Feed live insects (such as pinhead crickets or small roaches) sized 1/2 to 1/3 of the spider's body length once to twice a week.
- Legality/Permits: A Native Animal Keeping Licence is required in Queensland, an import permit is required in Western Australia, and they are prohibited in Tasmania.
Supplies ship within 1 to 2 business days, depending on stock, and usually arrive 1 to 3 days after dispatch.
Live animals ship on Mondays and Tuesdays only, so they are never in transit over a weekend. Order by 11am Sunday to ship that week. Orders containing a live animal ship together on the next live dispatch day.
We hold live animal orders during very hot or very cold weather and ship them once conditions are safe. We’ll let you know if your order is held.
We ship Australia-wide. Live animals cannot be shipped to the Northern Territory or Tasmania.
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Our Surry Hills store is small, so we keep in-store stock deliberately limited. Not everything online is on the shelf, so call us on (02) 7813 9640 before visiting for a specific item.
All reptiles and amphibians are sold online only, due to permit requirements.
Visit us at Shop 5, 450 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010. Open Wednesday to Sunday.
Every live animal is checked before it leaves us and packed by an experienced keeper.
If your animal arrives dead, contact us within one hour of delivery with a photo, and we will send a replacement. You don’t pay shipping on the replacement. Photo helps us identify what caused death so we can help prevent it from happening again with your order, and others.
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Insects, spiders and supplies: most don’t need a licence, but rules vary by state and species.
See our [Reptile & Frog Licensing Guide] for every state.
New to keeping reptiles, frogs or insects? Our free [Care Guides] cover housing, temperature, humidity and feeding for every species we sell. Need somewhere for your animal to live? Shop [Ready-made Enclosures] or have one [custom built]. Questions? [Contact us] and an experienced keeper will help.