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Should I remove my rose hair's unfertilized egg sac?

Leslie Hoey

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I got a Rose Hair sometime in the winter earlier this year. I named her Bilbo Swaggins :cool:
I noticed she's been really active. She would line the mulch in her cage with web, to the point that if you moved just a little bit of the dirt, pretty much the rest would move too. She also was laying more webs along the corners of the terrarium as well.
Along with this, however, I noticed a ball of web that she had rolled up. I kind of assumed it was an egg sac, and surely enough, when I cut it open it had hundreds of goo-ey white eggs waiting for me.

I know the eggs aren't fertilized, as she's never come in contact with a male. My question is, should I remove the egg sac? Or would doing that only stress her out?
 

MassExodus

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I got a Rose Hair sometime in the winter earlier this year. I named her Bilbo Swaggins :cool:
I noticed she's been really active. She would line the mulch in her cage with web, to the point that if you moved just a little bit of the dirt, pretty much the rest would move too. She also was laying more webs along the corners of the terrarium as well.
Along with this, however, I noticed a ball of web that she had rolled up. I kind of assumed it was an egg sac, and surely enough, when I cut it open it had hundreds of goo-ey white eggs waiting for me.

I know the eggs aren't fertilized, as she's never come in contact with a male. My question is, should I remove the egg sac? Or would doing that only stress her out?
Where did you get the tarantula? Are you certain she's never come in contact with a male?
 

Tuskedwings

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It could have been fertilized, most rose hairs that you find for sale are poached from chile up until a little while ago :/
 

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I agree...might wann look into incubating them just in case...and i wouldnt put it back now that u have removed it. she might just eat it.
 

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