Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject: C. elegans
Ok, so I decided to mate the C. elegans after all.
There are two possible scenarios for what happened las night.
1) they mated ( ), and she got booted
2) I had two males that were receptive to one another
So I put the enclosures together,
the MM was coaxed out of his tunnel formations at 0100 hrs (the MM did not burrow underground, he instead built network of tunnels around a piece of cork bark and covered them with substrate).
He readily moved into the other container (ok, he is fast so I call it luck he just happened to run in the right direction ).
Once in the presumed female's enclosure (who did build a burrow and is seen out of it only on occasion), the male familiarized himself with his surroundings, patrolled the perimeter and returned to the entrance of the burrow.
There seemed to be no drumming, tapping at first, but he introduced legs I to the burrow and jumped back rather rapidly.
He reached in again and started to drum rapidly, soon he was halfway in, I could see him lifting the presumed female but because he was in the burrow I was not able to visually confirm insertions.
He had the p. female lifted for one, two, three minutes, four, five... ok I gave up at 11 minutes (I've seen reports of people that had to physically separate the male and female as they could just go on forever ).
I let the male stay over for the night, at 0730 this morning I checked on them and to my surprise the presumed female was out of the burrow and the male had remained in
He is still alive and she looked fine as well, I allowed her to run over to his enclosure and so now they have changed living quarters.
My question on this is, is this normal? Does the female of this sp leave the burrow after mating? or am I dealing with an immature male that just got Bubba'd.
Ok, let's hope an eggsac is in the works, I will introduce him again tonight, this time in his enclosure and hopefully be able to confirm insertions.
Cool _________________ God does not play at dice AE
Good luck and hopefully there wasnt any broke back tarantula action. _________________ “Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself.”
Yet, yesterday afternoon, May 15th, she dropped a sac. The male had been re-introduced to the females enclosure a week after she molted.this was in Early June. They lived together until his last day, which was soMewhere in late July. I will post pictures tomorrow. She is really buried deep and you can see the little snowball in her clutch. _________________ God does not play at dice AE
They are so beautiful, Oscar!!! Best of luck with the sac!
I love the little pink "hearts" on their abdomens -- perfect Valentine's Day gifts for that "special someone", huh? ;-) _________________ "Tarantulas are friends, not food" (but I bet they taste pretty good with butter and lemon!)
Today is the third day and she is still grasping the sac. I haven't disturbed her much, but can see her from underneath the container. The internet at my place is down and thus can't upload pics... wait a second...
A tad out of focus, but you can just make out one of her legs holding on to it.
There it is, this is the underside of the container. I am going to leave it in at least another week, then out it comes.
Paul mentioned he has a sac he is incubating as well... , if all remains on course it looks like all SCABIES members will have a chance at owning some C. elegans _________________ God does not play at dice AE
~20 from what I counted earlier. Some were bad, some I think I lost to a bunch of mysterious little bugs (clear/white and very small), at last I think they may have been the cause of it. _________________ God does not play at dice AE
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), and she got booted
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