Tarantulas Today [Hardcover]

Andreas Tinter (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: TFH Publications (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793801133
• ISBN-13: 978-0793801138
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,654,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pics Wonderful, Info not as great, July 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tarantulas Today (Hardcover)

This book has it ups and downs. The good: This book has THE best Pix of any tarantula book I have ever seen. There are pictures of the most of the popular species and pictures of the two most important events in a tarantula's life, molting and mating. Plus they are lamenated. The bad: Some of the info, especially in the begging of the book can caus possible harm to your spiders. Plus, most of it is outdated, particularly on the names of the spiders. I recommend getting this for looking at the pictures and "helping" to identifing you tarantula. But for info on tarantulas, get Stanley and Marguerite Schultz' The Tarantula Keeper's Guide.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Photos, Good companion to the TKG, February 5, 2000

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Scott (Fresno, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarantulas Today (Hardcover)

This book has excellent color pictures of various species of tarantulas and even has mating pictures. This is an excellent companion to "The Tarantula Keeper's Guide". I say companion because the technical/care information in the TKG is more comprehensive and accurate.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not that great, June 23, 2005

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L. Smith "jeffnleziel" (San Ramon, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tarantulas Today (Hardcover)

After reading all the reviews on this book I had to get it since good tarantula books are very hard to find. It was not worth my money. The pictures were okay, . not great. I would have given it 2 stars if it had a variety of different pictures but it doesn't. As for the quality of the paper, . .it's weird, it is like photo paper that smelled funny. This book did not have any new information to offer that one couldn't find on the internet. I would reccomend borrowing this one at your local library, if it's available, . .it's just not worth the money to buy. Also there was a section on "sexing" your tarantula. The pictures were way to dark to know what they were referencing. I'd pass on this one.