Megaphobema robustum (Colombian Red Leg) 4" MALE

Colombian Giant Redleg Tarantula Megaphobema robustum Ausserer The Colombian Giant Redleg Tarantula, Megaphobema robustum Ausserer is literally the Halloween section of a crafts store come to life. Growing to a whopping 8-inch diagonal leg span, this impressive unit of a New World tarantula is characterized by brick red legs and setae contrasted with a carapace, abdomen and femurs as black as night.  This burrowing member of the tarantula subfamily Theraphosinae occurs under dense understory tropical plant cover in lowland rainforests of Colombia- a place where everything wants to eat you if you are a spider. As a result, M. robustum has a strong appetite and grows quickly to keep pace with the ravenous biotic competition of the rainforest. These tarantulas are rather skittish early in life, until they reach approximately 6” leg span- when they gain more self confidence. As they gain size, M. robustum develops an unusual defensive behavior of twirling and kicking their stout hindlegs,