Tarantulas & Invertebrates for Sale

Velvet spiders are where we point most people first, easy to keep, active during the day, and forgiving of a missed misting. If a velvet spider isn't for you, a lot of keepers gravitate toward jumping spiders instead since they're less intimidating to look at, but we usually recommend a docile New World tarantula spiderling or a New World dwarf species over a jumping spider for a true first invertebrate. Jumping spiders are fascinating to watch, but they live shorter lives than a tarantula, and captive bred jumping spiders are still a real gap in the hobby right now, harder for any store to source consistently, us included. Tarantulas are our specialty, and most keepers move into one soon after, usually a dwarf species or a docile terrestrial first.

No, and it's worth knowing the difference before you pick one. Jumping spiders and velvet spiders are genuinely the easiest true spiders to start with, calm and easy to house. Huntsman spiders and wandering spiders are true spiders too, but they're quicker and more alert, more of a next step once you've kept something else first than a first pet.

Yes, with one sizing note. Dwarf species like the Chilean Flame Tarantula and the Trinidad Dwarf Tiger Tarantula, among many other great dwarf species, mature small and are every bit as easy to keep day to day as one of our Beginner Species picks. The catch is spiderlings on some dwarf species can hatch as small as a sixteenth of an inch, tiny even by tarantula standards, so we usually point first time keepers toward a Beginner Species pick instead, they hatch larger and are simpler to raise up. If a dwarf species is what you're after, go with a well started or juvenile size rather than the smallest sling available.

Right now that's usually one of our Beginner Species picks, the Brazilian Black, Mexican Red Knee, and Arizona Blonde all sell consistently and are genuinely easy first tarantulas. Popularity shifts, though, so the fastest way to see what's actually moving right now is to filter for Beginner Species and sort by Bestsellers.

Curtain web spiders and funnel web spiders are closely related but not identical, and both are heavy webbers, not true spiders at all, genera like Linothele and Diplura, closer relatives of tarantulas (Mygalomorphae) that keep almost the same way a tarantula does: similar substrate, similar humidity, similar feeding. They build dense sheet webs across the enclosure, hence the name, live long lives for a spider, and tend to be fast and feisty, which puts them on the upper end of this journey rather than a first pick.

Yes, in a few specific ways. Scorpions cannot climb glass the way a tarantula can, so a screen top lid is a real option, tarantulas usually need that humidity held in tighter and can get a leg caught in wire mesh, scorpions don't run into that. Most scorpion species want better ventilation than a tarantula and don't like staying too wet unless they're a tropical species, so a glass tank with a cocoa fiber and sand mix or a bioactive soil is the most reliable setup, and several species, especially desert ones, need a real heat source. Look up the specific species before you buy, care varies more here than it does between tarantulas.

Centipedes can reach up to a foot in length, move extremely fast, and are sharp enough to work their way around a puzzle, genuinely impressive animals to watch. Given the chance and the right surface they can scale glass, so a secure, locking lid from day one is the key to a centipede enclosure, get that right and the rest of the care is straightforward, a hide, appropriate substrate, and feeding sized to the animal.

All of our tarantulas are 100% captive bred, no exceptions. It's common in the hobby to still see wild caught Goliath Bird Eaters, Arizona Blondes, Costa Rican Zebra Tarantulas, Curly Hairs, and even Common Pink Toes moving through the trade, all species with large, healthy captive breeding populations already, so there's no real reason to bring one in wild caught. We don't. That choice makes a few of those animals harder for us to source consistently, we're choosing not to buy into the wild collected and flipping side of the trade just to keep a listing in stock, we're breeding toward it instead.

Most of our true spiders and other spiders are captive bred too, and we're working toward full coverage there. A handful of other invertebrates, obscure ones like whip scorpions and vinegaroons, along with some centipedes, don't have established captive breeding populations yet, so we occasionally carry wild collected stock there while we keep working on it. On the rare occasion wild collected stock does come in anywhere in the catalog, it's a deliberate choice, breeding pairs meant to help establish a captive population, never a shortcut, and it is never tarantulas.

Most of our own breeding stock we raise ourselves, from spiderlings all the way to adulthood. Some of the rarest species we work with only exist as juveniles in the trade in the first place, so we breed multiple generations off animals we raised from nothing. That took the better part of eight years to build, and the same philosophy carries over to our reptiles too.

A few signs are worth knowing before you buy from anyone, not just us. A very cheap adult tarantula, in the fifty to under a hundred dollar range, at an expo table or online, is a strong sign it's wild caught. Adults are genuinely hard to produce in captivity, they take years to raise from a spiderling, so a large adult priced that low usually means it was collected rather than bred. Seeing several adults of the same species and sex on one table, ten or twenty females of one species all priced cheap, is another sign, that's typically wild collected stock being sold off in bulk rather than a breeder's actual output.

This matters beyond the individual sale. Every wild female removed from her habitat is a female who could have produced thousands of spiderlings over her lifetime in captivity instead, and it undercuts the breeders actually working to establish that species in the hobby, cheap wild caught adults circulating make it hard for a breeder to justify the years of work captive breeding takes when their animals have to compete on price with wild collected ones.

Species like the Arizona Blonde, Curly Hair, Costa Rican Zebra, and Goliath Bird Eater are sometimes sold as wild caught with the justification that they aren't bred enough in captivity to meet demand. That's not accurate, all of these have real, established breeding populations in the US and Europe, and can be legally imported from breeders overseas with the right permitting when needed, fully documented. That's the route we take. There's no real reason to sell a wild caught adult of any of these species, and we don't.

Yes, absolutely. Everything ships with our Live Arrival Guarantee, packed for FedEx Priority Overnight to a live animal accepting facility near you at a flat $39, free once your invertebrate total after discounts reaches $300, with the right temperature control pack included at no extra charge on every box that needs one. Our DOA rate runs low across the board, and on the rare case something doesn't arrive the way it should, the guarantee is there to back you up. Animal health comes first here: if something isn't fit to ship yet, close to a molt included, we may reach out to move your ship date rather than send it anyway, the same animal-first approach we take on everything we ship, not just invertebrates. Stock rotates fast in every category here, especially scorpions and centipedes, so put your email in on any sold out listing for a back in stock notification.