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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 Plus, most of it is outdated, particularly on the names of the spiders.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.

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.

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.

This book is one of the Best for many reasons. The layout is very nice. The pages are of high quality paper..(kinda like laminated). The Pictures are the Best i've ever seen! If there is one thing i love about this book its the pics.. some of the amazing pics in this book include... the purple A.seemani.. A.geniculata.. A very nice picture of the P.regalis, etc etc etc. buy this book..!

This book has the best pix of any book on tarantulas that I have seen, but as indicated by other reviews, technical info is much better and more reliable in "The Tarantula Keeper's Guide".