I'm Officially a Tarantula Breeder Now

[Tortoise Tom]

Hahaha....you get a system after a while. Heres a video over a year ago of me feeding over 200 slings. Let me know when your slings are ready...we can do some trading.

In the time lapse segment you were dumping a baggie into the small tub. What was in the baggie, and how were you getting the food into each cup?

Thanks for the videos.

How will I know when they are ready? Judging by their feeding reactions today, they seem pretty ready now!

 

[Tortoise Tom]

I took some close ups tonight.

I timed how long it takes me to do the feeding and watering. About 1:30 for every four cups. That will be about an hour and ten minutes. Not as bad as I thought.

 

[Arachnoclown]

The baggie had pinhead red runners in it. I shake the pinheads off the egg crates into the baggie. I then pour a bunch into a small vial/ pill bottle then shake a couple into each enclosure.

They are usually ready to ship as soon as they eat. I like to feed them a few times.

 

[Kornluvr]

Id like to sell them all, but I have to admit, I'm pretty ignorant about how to pack and ship them. I've certainly received a bunch of them, but I'm a bit nervous to try it without some supervision and guidance from someone who knows what they are doing. I pack and ship tortoises all the time, but teeny tiny little fragile spiders are a different thing altogether.

Anyone know anyone in the L.A. area that can help me out?

 

[Kornluvr]

Hi Tom
Congrats! What kind of tarantula is it? Also, you said you didnt know how to ship the babies...I received a baby once as a gift. It was shipped overnight and came in a medicine bottle stuffed with cotton. I was so excited and bought one of those small animal cages but I checked on it a couple of hours later and it escaped through the tiny vent holes in the lid. I never did find that sucker. It was a Mexican red leg, so I went to the pet shop and bought another one. I have the red leg and a Rosehair. I caught my cat trying to get a closer look today.

 

[menavodi]

Good looking cat you have @Kornluvr

 

[Tortoise Tom]

Hi Tom
Congrats! What kind of tarantula is it?

These are green bottle blue tarantulas. Chromatopelma cyanopubescens. Both sexes are gorgeous from the time they are babies until they die of old age. Great eaters. Easy keepers. Heavy webbers. One of my favorites.

 

[Linzrabo]

hi do you have any c. versicolor slings for sale?

 

[Linzrabo]

Hi do you guys have any c. versicolor slings for sale? Anybody? Looking to get my first T

 

[troublemakerwithspiders]

Put them together a few times weeks ago and never saw any action. Someone here suggested leaving the male with her overnight, so I did. Came back in the morning and he was still alive and well, so I put him back in his own enclosure. He's still eating like a champ to this day. A few days later, she went underground and webbed herself in. I tried every angle to look in and see what she was doing, but the whole damn enclosure is completely webbed over. I kept the water bowl filled and figured she'd come back out when she was ready. Today was feeding day, and it looks like she was ready to come back out... with about a hundred new babies.
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I haven't got them all separated out yet, but I'll count them when I finish that task later tonight. I put mom in a big deli cup and these little babies are surprisingly adept at avoiding capture.

I found the sac. She was buried deep and way down in the middle of everything. In hindsight I would have wrecked everything if I had gone looking for her. I wondered what was going on in there, but I'm glad I left her alone now.
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Lots of little exoskeletons in the webbing around the empty sac:
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I have 3 dozen of these AMAC boxes, and I think the rest are going to have to go into whatever other little vials and deli cups I have around. So much fun!
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I'll get a better close up later, but these things are so gorgeous!
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She should be proud of herself great job mama

 

[mrsoul1974]

Hi Tom
Congrats! What kind of tarantula is it? Also, you said you didnt know how to ship the babies...I received a baby once as a gift. It was shipped overnight and came in a medicine bottle stuffed with cotton. I was so excited and bought one of those small animal cages but I checked on it a couple of hours later and it escaped through the tiny vent holes in the lid. I never did find that sucker. It was a Mexican red leg, so I went to the pet shop and bought another one. I have the red leg and a Rosehair. I caught my cat trying to get a closer look today.

Your kitty (and T's) are beautiful!!!!

 

[Stat]

Congrats they look awesome!!!

 

[Silly]

Heres another old video on how to pack and ship tiny slings.

NICE!

 

[Linzrabo]

Put them together a few times weeks ago and never saw any action. Someone here suggested leaving the male with her overnight, so I did. Came back in the morning and he was still alive and well, so I put him back in his own enclosure. He's still eating like a champ to this day. A few days later, she went underground and webbed herself in. I tried every angle to look in and see what she was doing, but the whole damn enclosure is completely webbed over. I kept the water bowl filled and figured she'd come back out when she was ready. Today was feeding day, and it looks like she was ready to come back out... with about a hundred new babies.
View attachment 40067

I haven't got them all separated out yet, but I'll count them when I finish that task later tonight. I put mom in a big deli cup and these little babies are surprisingly adept at avoiding capture.

I found the sac. She was buried deep and way down in the middle of everything. In hindsight I would have wrecked everything if I had gone looking for her. I wondered what was going on in there, but I'm glad I left her alone now.
View attachment 40068

Lots of little exoskeletons in the webbing around the empty sac:
View attachment 40069

I have 3 dozen of these AMAC boxes, and I think the rest are going to have to go into whatever other little vials and deli cups I have around. So much fun!
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I'll get a better close up later, but these things are so gorgeous!
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Hi Tom, have you figured out how to mail these babies? I want one

 

[Master Odin]

congelation ... I just paired my OBT last night. have fun feeding them all =P