Hello everyone! Found and joined the forum last week.
After having bred once, a bit over ten years ago, I had another go at it last year, during the summer. I have a very large female L. parahybana and another, subadult female. Knowing full well how many babies these can have, I went ahead anyway since it is a great and easy species to get into it again. Bought a male during the summer and mated him with the adult female multiple times over the span of a month, with only one successful insertion witnessed and a lot of lifesaving skills on my end to keep the male alive.
Later on, I noticed constant tapping and upon investigation found the subadult female tapping furiously with the male responding. So I thought, what the heck, why not. Put the male in with the female and there was instant love, but it was also instantly over. No insertion witnessed and a lost leg for the male later I decided to not do any more attempts. One thing I must say and that is very different from for example my breeding ten years ago, this species will go out of their way to try and consume the male.
Anyhow, the male is still alive and kicking (and has started eating after all these months). In January I witnessed the subadult female laying eggs. I pulled the sac about 30 days later and incubated it using the exact same tools I had used the very first time: a tub filled with water and a pantyhose over it. Here are some pictures of the start:
I did a live sac opening through streaming for a couple of friends and then I took the above pictures on a later date. Even further on, more eggs with legs started to appear:
It has been nearly a month since pulling the sac and incubating and today I took some new pictures. I have since had to remove some bad eggs and it appears that many eggs might be staying eggs:
The temperature of the room was between 70 and 75 degrees, which I suspect may be the cause of so many eggs not hatching. About a week ago I added a heatpad to the side of the incubator (a big pvc box with holes, paper towels and then the cup with water and the pantyhose. This has meant that the eggs with legs have now started to moult into their next phase.
Is there a chance the other eggs will still hatch? Was it quite possibly my fault for keeping the temperature too low?
I found the incubator tutorial from Arachno Clown on here and am planning to use this in the future. The large female has now also made a sac which is due to be pulled at the start of april. Now is my chance to get it done properly I would guess.
After having bred once, a bit over ten years ago, I had another go at it last year, during the summer. I have a very large female L. parahybana and another, subadult female. Knowing full well how many babies these can have, I went ahead anyway since it is a great and easy species to get into it again. Bought a male during the summer and mated him with the adult female multiple times over the span of a month, with only one successful insertion witnessed and a lot of lifesaving skills on my end to keep the male alive.
Later on, I noticed constant tapping and upon investigation found the subadult female tapping furiously with the male responding. So I thought, what the heck, why not. Put the male in with the female and there was instant love, but it was also instantly over. No insertion witnessed and a lost leg for the male later I decided to not do any more attempts. One thing I must say and that is very different from for example my breeding ten years ago, this species will go out of their way to try and consume the male.
Anyhow, the male is still alive and kicking (and has started eating after all these months). In January I witnessed the subadult female laying eggs. I pulled the sac about 30 days later and incubated it using the exact same tools I had used the very first time: a tub filled with water and a pantyhose over it. Here are some pictures of the start:
I did a live sac opening through streaming for a couple of friends and then I took the above pictures on a later date. Even further on, more eggs with legs started to appear:
It has been nearly a month since pulling the sac and incubating and today I took some new pictures. I have since had to remove some bad eggs and it appears that many eggs might be staying eggs:
The temperature of the room was between 70 and 75 degrees, which I suspect may be the cause of so many eggs not hatching. About a week ago I added a heatpad to the side of the incubator (a big pvc box with holes, paper towels and then the cup with water and the pantyhose. This has meant that the eggs with legs have now started to moult into their next phase.
Is there a chance the other eggs will still hatch? Was it quite possibly my fault for keeping the temperature too low?
I found the incubator tutorial from Arachno Clown on here and am planning to use this in the future. The large female has now also made a sac which is due to be pulled at the start of april. Now is my chance to get it done properly I would guess.
