GOMER113
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The G. rosea I won at June's BBQ Raffle...... was gravid! I didn't put her in a proper enclosure until a week later and decided to wait a couple of weeks before feeding her since she looked sort of fat.
I fed her and the next day I gave her to my cousin as a birthday gift and he called me 10 days later saying, "You know that spider you gave me for my birthday? Can you come pick it up? My parents don't want it in the house. And, oh yeah, it has an egg sac."
Here are some pictures.
Around July 4, 2009
August 18, 2009 - The day I removed the sac.
Here they are... all 209 of them! I separated them into groups of 15 shortly after this.
9/9/09
9/11/09
I'll be bringing a bunch to September's BBQ.
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ogershok
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Some of us try for years to get a fertile sac. Some people do it by accident. Life's not fair. Congratulations anyway! Very cool.
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Celeste
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Awww!! How wonderful! Congratulations!!!
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Mad Hatter
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Wow, that's awesome!
Congrats on the egg sack! Great pictures by the way - so detailed.
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balam
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Is that the one I sent foe the raffle 
First Oger and the flatrock, n ow you with the T. I'm on a streak 
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Celeste
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Yeah, balam -- what else are you selling/giving away? ;-)
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ogershok
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Oscar - remind me to never date any of your ex-girlfriends. I'm too old to be a dad.
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balam
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| ogershok wrote: | | Oscar - remind me to never date any of your ex-girlfriends. I'm too old to be a dad. |
ROFLMAO
Omar, she was mated wit an RCF male. Hopefully you'll get some RCF little guys.
C. I was thinking of giving away an M. balfouri... but I think I'll reconsider
btw, I was kidding... I don't own one
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GOMER113
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Thanks for the replies, everyone!
So she wasn't WC gravid!? Awesome! We'll see how they turn out. I noticed that some of these little guys had a gray stripe right down the middle of their abdomen as they were getting closer to pre-molt. I don't think I've seen that before on G. rosea slings, but I'm also thinking I may not have seen that many 1st instar G. rosea slings to begin with.
I think all but about 20 of these have molted. There are way too many to count right now and I'm sure I'll have a heck of a great time separating them further. I opened one container to take a picture of 10+ freshly molted slings and a bunch of them tried to make a break for it.
I also have another female that I had mated with a normal phase G. rosea and I caught her as she had just started munching on her egg sac. I pulled it 10 days earlier than I had wanted to and I also opened it much too soon. All but two of the eggs went bad. A lot of them were stuck together and then they dried out.
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Loudog760
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Very cool man. Talk about luck of the draw.
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GOMER113
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Hey Oscar, you also didn't happen to donate a trio of S. gertschi scorps in a little white deli cup container, did you? If so, guess what happened...
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ogershok
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| GOMER113 wrote: | | Hey Oscar, you also didn't happen to donate a trio of S. gertschi scorps in a little white deli cup container, did you? If so, guess what happened... :::: |
Your wife took them in her lunch by mistake?
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GOMER113
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Nope!
P.S. No more wife. 
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balam
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funny... but actually... I did :p.
They were collected from the Bakersfield hills.
ROFLMAO
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BamBaboons
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its something in our water 
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rosenkrieger
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That's interesting. I should PM Lick and see if the ones I gave him popped at all. :p
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GOMER113
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| BamBaboons wrote: | | its something in our water |
Maybe so, but I think Oscar is gutloading crickets and roaches with fertility drugs.
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