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Help! I don't know what to do.
Daisy molted, so she hasn't been eating. My crickets were slowly dying off, so I was left with a mature male and a mature female. The male used to chirp constantly, but that stopped a few weeks ago. I checked on them today. The female is fat and has a white sac attached to her girl parts. I've never seen this white sac before on my females, and her delivery shaft thingy (pardon the jargon lol) is at attention. She isn't as active as she was - I called her Jumper for her constant movement and jumping - and she appeared to avoid the male at all costs. When I moved her earlier, the sac stayed firmly attached and she kept moving her legs in front of it as protection or something.
I'm assuming this means that they got funky and she's expecting.
I've put her into a container with substrate, food, and a warm temperature. If she decides to lay the eggs, or I'm assuming as such, what do I do about all of the babies? I'm not really equipped to handle a bunch of little crickets, and the only heating I have is two space heaters. It'd be nice to have free crickets to give my spider, plus I'd know exactly what they've eaten and such. But, again, I'm not sure if I can deal with a ton of pinheads. I'm no breeder. But, I hate the idea of killing the little ones, so I'm just not sure at this point how to proceed if my suspicions are correct.
Suggestions and advice are welcome. Maybe someone on here would like the pinheads, if they're safe to mail? And, if the white sac is something else, do tell me before I have heart failure...haha
(Also, I do have a picture of the white sac if needed...I just have to get it onto my computer)
Daisy molted, so she hasn't been eating. My crickets were slowly dying off, so I was left with a mature male and a mature female. The male used to chirp constantly, but that stopped a few weeks ago. I checked on them today. The female is fat and has a white sac attached to her girl parts. I've never seen this white sac before on my females, and her delivery shaft thingy (pardon the jargon lol) is at attention. She isn't as active as she was - I called her Jumper for her constant movement and jumping - and she appeared to avoid the male at all costs. When I moved her earlier, the sac stayed firmly attached and she kept moving her legs in front of it as protection or something.
I'm assuming this means that they got funky and she's expecting.
I've put her into a container with substrate, food, and a warm temperature. If she decides to lay the eggs, or I'm assuming as such, what do I do about all of the babies? I'm not really equipped to handle a bunch of little crickets, and the only heating I have is two space heaters. It'd be nice to have free crickets to give my spider, plus I'd know exactly what they've eaten and such. But, again, I'm not sure if I can deal with a ton of pinheads. I'm no breeder. But, I hate the idea of killing the little ones, so I'm just not sure at this point how to proceed if my suspicions are correct.
Suggestions and advice are welcome. Maybe someone on here would like the pinheads, if they're safe to mail? And, if the white sac is something else, do tell me before I have heart failure...haha
(Also, I do have a picture of the white sac if needed...I just have to get it onto my computer)
