Lily and Ivy.
Nooooooooo no, I know what happens to the parents. I don’t have the stomach for it. They are from the same sac too, so I’d feel weird.
Ooh I didn't know that! I was just terrified of hundreds of babies! Then you have to feed them which causes nightmares of opening 100's of deli containers (my personal nemisis). regardless enjoy these very unique spiders!
inbreeding actually doesnt really seem to harm tarantulas or arachnida in general. It might actually be the main reason for dwarfism too. Genetic isolation resulting in a smaller maximum size which has the added benefit of storing less heat, and thereby tolerating extreme heat and drought. So then they survive better and get smaller. Seems like Paloma itself is the champion of it
I mean they’ll both die, so I’m not sure I can stomach that. The more I learn the more I realize my male is probably going to die soon anyway, so I’m seriously considering sending him off to get paired and I hopefully get a few slings out of it? But for now I’m just majorly conflicted. I can’t pair mine anyway, My female isn’t mature anyway.:/inbreeding actually doesnt really seem to harm tarantulas or arachnida in general. It might actually be the main reason for dwarfism too. Genetic isolation resulting in a smaller maximum size which has the added benefit of storing less heat, and thereby tolerating extreme heat and drought. So then they survive better and get smaller. Seems like Paloma itself is the champion of it
Or say a population suddenly had a mutation causing them to be smaller, and able to colonize closed scrub, etc, giving them an advantage over a big hulking 5" tarantula that needs open ground to thrive well.
