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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarantula Trooper" data-source="post: 235649" data-attributes="member: 37740"><p>My first phantom egg sack came from my P. Ecclesiasticus. Raised her from a .5 sling and never paired! While feeding her a super worm she came up drumming with all legs. Told my son that's how a female would drum! Before the egg sack I suspected she was female and the sack confirmed as she had drummed one time previously but not during feeding. I pulled this sack because she is one of my most reclusive spiders. The sack was one reason why! Don't know how long she had it exactly but see her out far,far more now.  Now, a month or so after pulling the Ecclesiasticus sack my P. Emeraldus dropped a phantom sack. Same as Ecclesiasticus. I raised this spider from a sling. No pairings! I decided this time to leave the sack with her just to see what would happen. Now I know this is a dud sack so I fed and did provide water for her and would overflow a bit. Only 1 cricket through 35 plus days mind you! If I thought it was a viable sack I would have pulled it around the 30 day mark. But it ended the other day at the 39th day and it went as I figured...she consumed it. Kinda what I wanted anyway. But does any other long time Psalmopeous keepers have phantom sack droppers.</p></blockquote><p></p>