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Caresheet: Brazillian Black
Grammostola pulchra
Brazilian Black
Range: Brazil
Experience level: Beginner/experienced
Size: Fully grown about 17 cm
Growth rate: Slow
Type: Terrestrial
Temperament: Docile and calm
Housing: Use a terrarium that will alow at least 10 centimetres of substrate.
Retreat/hide: Use about 8 centimetres of peat moss. Place a bark for a starter burrow/hide.
Water requirements: A shallow water dish and/or weekly water spray.
Diet: Crickets, roaches.
Comments: This species is prized for its complete uniformed black velvet look. This species is easily mated, but does not produce eggsacks easily, and the eggsacks produced are also very small - hence the high prices for slings and these T's in general.

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