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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 241564" data-attributes="member: 49228">Meet Mary, a Venezuelan Suntiger Tarantula (Psalmopoeus irminia), who lives at Josh’s Frogs as a member of the breeding team.  She was born here. She was up for sale along with the sac-mates from her sac and two other P irminias that sac’ed out that year. For that reason, she was still here a year later and she still hadn’t sold. I had about two dozen of her siblings left, counting her. She had grown to nearly 2 ½ inches in that time. That is about half the size and age generally associated with maturity in her species. I point that out because, despite that, I looked into her habitat and found her carrying a tiny egg sac! She had never been paired with a male, so it was guaranteed to not be fertile. It was also a fraction of the size of an egg sac that an adult P irminia would lay. Still I was so impressed with her drive to become a mother that I adopted her into the breeding team right away! She is coming up on three years old now. She will get an opportunity to be a mother, the next time we get a mature male in. Even if she was in a rush to grow up and be a mother, we wanted her body to finish maturing before moving into that next stage in her life. She is an absolute stunner!!  I think she will make beautiful babies!!![ATTACH=full]77256[/ATTACH]</blockquote>