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I bred my wild caught, but longish term captive, Scary Mary on FRIDAY 13TH, January 13, 2006.

i got the male from Brigebane. the male was power grown from captive birth about two years ago.

the female was actually the first tarantula i ever bought (about 18 months ago). she molted c. November 2005. i've been conditioning her since i bought her, with the intent of breeding her. conditioning entailed almost power feeding her with a variety of prey items including lobster roaches, Mad hissers, a couple orange head roaches, wax worms, meal worms, and crickets. she also decided to eat a meal worm beetle a few days before i mated her. i've never seen *anything* eat a meal worm beetle before. all my bugs are kept in my bedroom, with a window open most of the year. this is in the hopes that the tarantula can attune herself to the seasonal cycles from temperature and humidity cues. she was caged in a 4"x6"x8" critter keeper with a half a coconut shell for a hide. Mary took so well to the hide that i decided to just put her small cage *inside* a large 24"x18"x12" plastic cage. her small cage is off to one side, leaving a large space for Mary to cast her eggsac in.

January 13, 2006
i placed the female's cage inside of an open LARGE tupperware, as a secondary container, both of which where in the middle of my bed/bugroom floor. i placed the male in a large cup to move him around and to recieve him after the mating.

i introduced the male to the female's cage. due to the interesting construction (a smaller critter keeper inside of a much larger plastic cage) the male was initially unable to figure out where the female was. they were drumming back and forth, but the male kept heading in the wrong direction. i helped him to find her by moving him so one of his legs touched the large patch of dirt that the female was on.

once the male was touching the same patch of dirt they drummed (with the male using mainly his pedipalps and the female drumming with her pedipalps AND legs I AND II... i guess she was, um, ready...) and Mary rushed the male. i thought for a minute that i was going to see the male get eaten... but i guess Mary was just REALLY eager to get started! as soon as Mary was in "leg range" she and the male started tapping and stroking each other. the male hooked Mary's fangs within 30 seconds of contact. the angle at which i was viewing the spiders (bird's eye view, more or less) allowed me to look down in between the spiders' bodies. i saw the male insert his right "hand" pedipalp and pump for approximately 5 seconds. he switched palps and pumped for another 3-5 seconds. Mary still seemed heavily entranced, so the male switched back to his original palp and proceded to give her both barrels for approximately 5 more seconds a piece.

at this time Mary seemed to be coming out of the mating trance and pulled away a little bit. the male clung to her and it seemed like he was trying for a THIRD round of insertions. at this point i thought it was prudent to seperate the two. once the male was completely out of contact with Mary he displayed the comical fast-motion escape i have read about sometimes happens.

overall, this was a very cool experience and i can't wait to see how the rest of the drama unfolds.

i'm looking forward to mating my other G. rosea and my A. seemani soon Smile

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August 8, 2006

Step One: Mating... Check

Step Two: Eggsac Production... Check

Mary has been excavating like a woman possessed for the past two months. She burrowed under the smaller (medium size, i think) kritter keeper i have *inside* a giant kritter keeper and excavated out a large chamber. I hoped this was in preperation for making an eggsac... and indeed it was.

From a glance of a few legs in a stilted position down the burrow hole i suspected for the last week that she had made an eggsac. Tonight with a tempting roach and a few squirts of a mist bottle i saw the eggsac in all it's glory Smile

Now, my plan at this point is to let it go another month (so five to six weeks total elapsed sac time) and then take it and raise it in the hammock incubator my brother and i built for his A. avicularia eggsac. I hope she hasn't been sitting on this thing for two months already and it hatches in her tank.... although that *would* take care of the dang stupid baby lobster roaches that hatched in there, i guess...

i got a pic of the eggsac

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epilogue:
::lol::, the eggsac hatched like a week after i took it! i guess mary laid it quite a bit before i realized. i just thought she was being shy =P

i got something like 120-140 babies from that eggsac. iirc, there was something like 30-50 duds, too

TheJackal · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:18 am Post subject:

I really need to do some more breeding with my T's! Laughing

these threads get me all stired up ha Very Happy

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lizmotobike · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject:

do we post all G. rosea breedings here?

if not i'll erase.

on 7/29/08 at aprox 10 pm, my evita, a rescue of unknown age, was interduced to a male from the midwest. (via jules at the BBBQ this last july.) I know terrible grammer.

we placed both the containers next to each other in the bottom of the bath tub. i placed a peace of her webbing in his enclosure first dragging it across his front pedipalps and repeated the process with her. he did a sort of noiseless drumming. he climbed into her pen and aproached her. she backed away but kept reaching with her front legs to locate him. i think we got one insertion possibly two.
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lizmotobike · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:29 am Post subject:

9/28/08 she has been eating like a pig but this last feeding she refused food. i had to remove her crickets
i hope she is just full.

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