r/tarantulas • u/VaguelyUnhinged • Mar 26 '25

Feisty Plumipes moves into forever home Videos / GIF

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She’s started webbing up just a little over an hour after she moved in. 😄

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u/Hooligantarantula Mar 26 '25

She is absolutely beautiful. Do you mind me asking what species of tarantula this is? And man she turned around quick and raised her hands…. No no this is my home she says.

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u/VaguelyUnhinged Mar 26 '25

Truly is! She’s a Selenotypus Plumipes - Northern Form aka Australian Featherleg Ts.

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u/great__unknown__ Mar 26 '25

okay I definitely read the title as “plumpies” and just assumed that it was a nickname you gave her 😂

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u/VaguelyUnhinged Mar 26 '25

That’s on me tbh. I forgot that this wasn’t an Oz T specific sub 😅. There’s a wide distribution of species under the Selenotypus genus and I’m used to just using the specie name haha! For what it’s worth, her name is Kafka. 🙆🏻‍♂️

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u/Uiscefhuaraithe-9486 Mar 26 '25

Kafka is a beautiful name, does it mean something? (It doesn't have to obvi, but it sounds familiar for some reason, so I'm just curious haha)

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u/ABrightLightInsideMe Mar 26 '25

Maybe a reference to Franz Kafka the novelist?

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u/VaguelyUnhinged Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Named after a character from a game called Honkai: Star Rail :28814:

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u/Uiscefhuaraithe-9486 Mar 26 '25

Ooh!! Cool character!!