4Sale: Arthropods, arthropods, arthropods...SoCal pickup only

kurgar galatur

First Instar
Hi all.

tl;dr
make me an offer.

I am editing my collection. Los Angeles pickup only right now. Since a price must be listed let’s say $1000 as an upper bound placeholder for all of them and go from there. OBO. No individual prices listed because all reasonable offers will be considered, and some unreasonable ones. For example: I’d really prefer for this clutter of ts, bed of scorpions, and loveliness of other arthropods to go as one or two or three large lots or something similar. For that unreasonable thing to happen, I can offer as incentive and motivation a  >5” 0.1 P. metallica and/or a communal group of 4 or 5 young adult M. balfouri.  Think of a sum below $1000 and ask.

Pictures on request.

Most specimens came to me via the very fine people either on this board or that other board. These animals come with enclosures, which in most instances is the right container for the job. Buyer of course may do whatever they want to do with the enclosure.

Please excuse any anachronistic naming conventions.

Blaberids
(each species kept communally)
  Hissers
  Aeluropoda Insignis ~15-20 adults and young adults
  Elliptorhina Chopardi 12+ primarily adults
  Elliptorhina Javanica 12
  Gromphadorhina grandidieri ~20 all stages
  Gromphadorhina oblongonota 100+ all stages
  Gromphadorhina portentosa 100+
   
  Large
  Archimandrita tessellata small colony (10 or less)
  Blaberus colosseus (5 or so)
  Blaberus giganteus small colony (10?)

(^these numbers are conservative)
  Medium

  Blaptica dubia (70-80) young and adults
  Eublaberus "Pantanal" ~25 young + adults

  Small and very small
  Panchlora nivea 0.0.50+ all stages
  Pycnoscelus nigra 0.0.X small colony (20?)
  Pycnoscelus surinamensis 0.~0.5000 mostly♀ clones (I think) via thelytokous parthenogenesis

Scolopendra
 Scolopendra aztecorum 0.0.2 6" and 4" subadults
 Scolopendra polymorpha "aqua"  0.0.1  2.5"
 Scolopendra polymorpha "Madrean banded"  0.0.1  3"

Scorpiones
 Pandinus dictator 0.0.2-3 4” juveniles living together for now
 Tityus stigmurus 0.30 clones of one another via apomictic parthenogenesis, all ages living communally.

Theraphosidae
  Acanthoscurria brocklehursti cum theraphosoides 0.0.1 2”
  Acanthoscurria geniculata 0.0.1 1-1.5"
  Aphonopelma seemanni 0.0.2 2.5"

  Brachypelma annitha 0.0.1 large sling
  Brachypelma baumgarteni 0.0.2 1"
  Brachypelma boehmei 0.0.1 1.5"
  Brachypelma klaasi 0.0.1 1.5"
  presumed Brachypelma smithi cum hamorii sling 0.0.1 1.5-2"
  Bumba cabocla 0.0.1 < 2"

  Grammostola iheringi 0.0.1 2.5" juvenile
  Grammostola pulchra 0.1.2 ♀: 4-5” youngsters: 1.5”
  Grammostola rosea 0.1 6"

  Hapalopus sp. Colombia 0.0.1 2.5"
  Harpactira pulchripes 0.0.2 2.5"
  Heteroscodra maculata 0.0.1 3-4"
  Holothele incei 0.0.2-3

  Lasiodora difficilis 0.0.1 1.5" sling
  Lasiodora parahybana 0.1 5-6”

  Megaphobema robustum 0.0.1 large sling

 Nhandu tripepii 0.0.1 1" sling

 Pamphobeteus antinous 0.0.2 4" extremely fast-growing and fast-moving juveniles
 Pamphobeteus esmeraldas 0.0.1 2.5"
 possible Pamphobeteus esmeraldas 0.0.1 2.5"
 Pamphobeteus goliath 0.0.2 3-3.5" juveniles
 Pamphobeteus machalla "purple burst" 0.0.1 2.5" recently molted
 Pamphobeteus nigricolor 0.0.1 3"
 Pamphobeteus penta 0.0.1 2.5-3" juvenile
 Pamphobeteus ultramarinus 0.0.1 2" young juvenile

 Phlogius crassipes 0.0.1 1.5"
 
Phormictopus sp. green 0.0.1 ~1.5" young juvenile

 possible Poecilotheria metallica 0.0.1 2-2.5"
 Poecilotheria ornata  0.1? suspect female is about 8”, but let’s say 7”
 Poecilotheria regalis and 0.0.1 3"
 Poecilotheria subfusca highland 0.1 ♀ around 4”
 Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli 0.0.3 3-4” living communally
 Poecilotheria vittata 0.0.1 3"

 Theraphosa stirmi 0.1 ~ 8-9"

 Xenesthis immanis 0.0.2  2.5”
 Xenesthis sp. "Black Fire" 0.0.1 2.5"

Amblypygi
 Damon diadema (1.0 young adult, likely ♂, based on the rule of thumb where, when the pedipalp extends beyond the first leg segment, you got a boy)
 Heterophrynus batesii 1.0 young adult suspect male for the same reason, which is probably not reliable.
 Phrynus barbadensis 0.0.1
 Phrynus decoratus 0.0.1 (someone has expressed interest in this already)

There are small colonies pillbugs, isopods, roly-polies, and so forth working cleanup in some enclosures. These isopods include:
 Giant Canyon dilatatus
 Porcello scaber
 Trichorhina tomentosa
 Dwarf white
 Armadillidium vulgare
 Jungle micropods
They’re mixed in.

I’m sure there are others animals to add here. Animals live in the Oaks neighborhood near Los Feliz and Griffith Park.
X-posted to arachnoboards, and local craigslist. Sooo, first come, first served. Aannd, don’t delay: do it today.

Terms of Service

Live Arrival Guarantee
 Only living animals will be sold. Given the nature of an in-person, in-vivo purchase, the status of the animal as either living or dead should be clear to both buyer and seller.

Refund Policy
 I need them gone, so I can’t take them back. I care deeply for these creatures, and I need to de-accession, not to make money. Animals are to be sold at below-market prices. On top of that,  buyer will have an opportunity to meet the animals, see their behavior, sex them if so inclined, and so forth. For these reasons, the animals are sold talis qualis, in their current condition. Buyer receives item (blaberid, t, whip, whatever) from seller tantum et tale—with all its faults and all its merits, and not under warranty. Animals sold are likely to be more valuable than the prices paid, meaning purchaser will have the advantage. However, if the animal dies soon after you get it home, I’m cool with refunding for that animal. I’d hate for that to happen to anybody. These creatures are fairly straightforward and simple algorithms. But death, like bad moults, happens. I don’t want you to have a dead animal. That’s not really a pet, is it? So I guess that means you’d be bringing the dead animal back to me. Thanks. Or maybe you should keep it. And here’s an idea if you can’t keep them when they're alive: Try donating them to a science center. I haven’t had much luck with that route myself, but perhaps you’ll do better.

Thank you for your time.
    Craig
    (kurgara galatur)

 
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