Sdsnybny's breeding success

[sdsnybny]

My Psalmopoeus cambridgei double clutched

 

[SikmT7]

Congrats on your successful breeding project @sdsnybny

 

[SikmT7]

My Psalmopoeus cambridgei double clutched
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Score!!!!!

 

[sdsnybny]

Really loving this one.....22 more days cant get here soon enough. Avicularia purpurea!
Paired 10/4/19 found 10/30/19

 

[Arachnoclown]

Really loving this one.....22 more days cant get here soon enough. Avicularia purpurea!
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Awesome to see her sitting on that 10 lot of slings I have reserved.

 

[SikmT7]

Really loving this one.....22 more days cant get here soon enough. Avicularia purpurea!
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Congrats!!

 

[PanzoN88]

I might have to load up on more slings from you before the weather gets any colder.

 

[sdsnybny]

@98 emerging EWLS pulled at 25 days Avicularia purpurea. Paired two more females one left to go.

 

[troublemakerwithspiders]

Random luck on this one, but I'll take it!!
Euthycaelus colonica Simon, 1889
Received this beautiful dwarf from an European import, unbeknownst to me many of the females in the shipment were paired and the shipper forgot which ones were which so they didst get marked. She went to ground as soon as I got her and haven't seen her since. Yesterday I noticed her burrow was open and went to see her new dress. Nope a bunch of 1st/2nd instar babies all around mom in the tunnel. there is now nylon stocking around the enclosure to prevent escapees
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Can you tell me about the stocking. I have a 1 inch sling I want to move into a better enclosure but I am afraid the ventilation holes are too big. Can I put a stocking the way you have it to prevent an escape ?

 

[sdsnybny]

Can you tell me about the stocking. I have a 1 inch sling I want to move into a better enclosure but I am afraid the ventilation holes are too big. Can I put a stocking the way you have it to prevent an escape ?

That will work but I would only do it temporary. The 1st instar to 2nd instar they are not as active. After that the 2nd instar and above could chew through the nylon stocking.

 

[sdsnybny]

Tore mu Heterothele villosella communal down two days ago after spotting the largest member carrying an egg sac. Wasnt quite ready for 145 tiny slings wandering about the half gallon food canister.
Started with 17 1/8" spiderlings in a 2oz condiment cup ended up wit 9 left 1 confirmed female, 1 MM, 4 suspect girls and 3 suspect boys all about 1.5-2" not bad for just over a year.

 

[PanzoN88]

Tore mu Heterothele villosella communal down two days ago after spotting the largest member carrying an egg sac. Wasnt quite ready for 145 tiny slings wandering about the half gallon food canister.
Started with 17 1/8" spiderlings in a 2oz condiment cup ended up wit 9 left 1 confirmed female, 1 MM, 4 suspect girls and 3 suspect boys all about 1.5-2" not bad for just over a year.

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Sounds like very good progress.

 

[Jess S]

Is there an upper limit on how many you could put in a communal, or are you only limited by the size of the enclosure?

 

[sdsnybny]

You actually want to keep the quarters as tight as possible that way they don't ever set up there own territories. Then gradually move them up in size. I started all 17 in a 2-3oz condiment cup till it was no longer safe to open it up and toss in 20 pinhead red runners. They got to be about1/2-3/4" then I moved them up to the last container Its about 1/2 gallon

 

[Jess S]

Does that mean that someone could raise an entire sac worth of slings in a communal if they scaled up the enclosure correctly to take into account the increased numbers but making sure they don't have too much room to establish individual territories? This is all hypothetical. I'm just interested.

 

[sdsnybny]

Does that mean that someone could raise an entire sac worth of slings in a communal if they scaled up the enclosure correctly to take into account the increased numbers but making sure they don't have too much room to establish individual territories? This is all hypothetical. I'm just interested.

Yes but naturally there would be losses, Many mother tarantulas will kill and feed the young till they are strong enough to leave on there own.

 

[Jess S]

Yes but naturally there would be losses, Many mother tarantulas will kill and feed the young till they are strong enough to leave on there own.

Good point, probably be best to put them in their.own enclosure.

 

[sdsnybny]

MM Avicularia purpurea before and after Hope he got the job done.

 

[ilovebrachys]

MM Avicularia purpurea before and after Hope he got the job done.View attachment 42486View attachment 42487

Awww no that's so sad - what a Beautiful T he was

 

[Jess S]

MM Avicularia purpurea before and after Hope he got the job done.View attachment 42486View attachment 42487

Obviously, that leg was so beautiful she couldn't bear to eat it.

Maybe he'll even leave a leg(acy)( copywrite of that terrible but funny pun belongs to @Phil )

Sad, but hopefully you'll have a bumper sack to make up for it