Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject: Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
Okay guys, I have had a succesful breeding on the GBB (When I say succesful, I mean the male wasn't eaten, and there were a few very good inserts). No sac yet but we'll find out very soon. So basically this is just a rough draft, but I want to post anyway. When/or if I get sack i'll finsih it up. I have some pictures to post, but I lost my usb so that will come later on. Enjoy and tell me what you guys think (Through pm, I don't want to piss any mods off =])
Prep
Re-housed female in 25gl-35gl encolsure (About three months prior to finding a male, so giving her enough time to creat a web den/burrow. This particular female has never burrowed, she has always made a web den.), substrate a little over half way filled. Flooded the enclosure with 2qts of water at least once a week.
water (On a different side of the enclosure each time). Acclimate male in a large deli cup (tons of ventilation), or a medium sized kritter keeper on it's side, and filled with pete moss/eco earth.
Breeding Attempts
Introduced male originally on 3/2/09. Every night untill 3/12/09 I would introduce male for 1-4 hours, then remove before I left. Breeding was never witnessed this way, although female would tap untill the male lost interest. I never witnessed the male tap.
3/14/09 I introduced the male into the encolsure and left un-attended up through 3/17/09.
3/15/09 No mating was witnessed altough tons of tapping from the female.
3/16/09 Mating was wittnessed all through out the day a couple good insertions, but they continued afterwards through out the day.
3/17/09 Mating is witnessed in the early morning for less than a hour. The female turned on him after one big very good insert. He made way to his hide, and she chased him all the way there, and even attempted the get in there with him, but I stopped her just in time.
3/17/09 Witnessed male creating sperm web 5:04pm, about ten hours after the breeding occured.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
Herpetologyfrk wrote:
(Through pm, I don't want to piss any mods off =])
NOW you've gone and done it!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like he did his deed and everything turns out good :^} _________________ “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.”
Re-housed female in 25gl-35gl encolsure (About three months prior to finding a male, so giving her enough time to creat a web den/burrow. This particular female has never burrowed, she has always made a web den.), substrate a little over half way filled. Flooded the enclosure with 2qts of water at least once a week.
water (On a different side of the enclosure each time). Acclimate male in a large deli cup (tons of ventilation), or a medium sized kritter keeper on it's side, and filled with pete moss/eco earth.
Time line
Introduced male originally on 3/2/09. Every night untill 3/12/09 I would introduce male for 1-4 hours, then remove before I left. Breeding was never witnessed this way, although female would tap untill the male lost interest. I never witnessed the male tap.
3/14/09 I introduced the male into the encolsure and left un-attended up through 3/17/09.
3/15/09 No mating was witnessed altough tons of tapping from the female.
3/16/09 Mating was wittnessed all through out the day a couple good insertions, but they continued afterwards through out the day.
3/17/09 Mating is witnessed in the early morning for less than a hour. The female turned on him after one big very good insert. He made way to his hide, and she chased him all the way there, and even attempted the get in there with him, but I stopped her just in time.
3/17/09 Witnessed male creating sperm web 5:04pm, about ten hours after the breeding occured.
5/1/09-5/28/09 Female started acting weird, started digging (she has never burrowed before), started moving things around. Untill I made her a den out of bark. Then she sealed herself up, on and off untill the first of June.
5/29/09-6/6/09 Sealed her self up again, I tooks pictures of it on the 6th.
6/7/09 She created an egg sac.
Before breeding.
Right before breeding.
During breeding.
After breeding (Female).
After breeding (Male) sperm web.
About a month after breeding.
Sealed her self about three months after breeding. Picture taken 6/6/09.
Started making a sac June 7th, 109 days after breeding.
Congratulations! They're both beautiful! Should make some gorgeous babies! _________________ "Tarantulas are friends, not food" (but I bet they taste pretty good with butter and lemon!)
I have more questions. When did you pull the sac? And how long does it take for the eggs to eggs with legs, and to first and 2nd instar? Did you put them in an incubator during the time?
What size was your female and how many eggs and slings you ended up with?
One of my females just dropped a sac. I'll do a complete report once they get through 1st instar.
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