Serious egg dimpling

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My first spider hatchling ever. I'm so freaking excited!!! :D

Wow beautiful markings on that little spider! Congrats on the babies :)

awwww s/he is so cute, congrats happy the eggs made it.

Congrats, I am so glad everything turned out okay:gj::gj:

Congrats:gj:!

Congrats! :)
Most of the issues with substrateless would be due to too much air flow. You need a full seal to keep the humidity high--every tiny gap has to be closed. I tape over all the holes in my hovabators when I do substrateless incubation.

Substrate incubation is a little more forgiving of air flow, since the substrate holds the humidity where it touches the eggs. Still, I enjoy seeing nice new hatchlings pop out without little pieces of vermiculite stuck in their heat pits, lol.

Wow beautiful spider...

Amazing how they came out so healthy out of those dimpled eggs

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Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion

Most of the issues with substrateless would be due to too much air flow. You need a full seal to keep the humidity high--every tiny gap has to be closed. I tape over all the holes in my hovabators when I do substrateless incubation.

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This is absolutley true. I lost an 11 egg clutch doing substrateless, they just dried out and died, and I could not make sense of it. How can you possibly get more humidity than having the eggs in a box over 2 inches of water ? When I got my second clutch I tried it again, but the second time around I put a hygrometer in the box. Imagine my shock when the humidity never went over 30% :O!

Took the lid off the box, wrapped it in four layers of plastic wrap {press and seal and I don't mix} and boom humidity off the chart and healthy babies 61 days later.

Gale

Aww, he is awesome!!! Congrats!!! I really do love the look of spiders, lucky you!

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One of the normals head was popping out too :D

But I'm too tired ( and lazy :rolleyes: ) to walk back down two sets of stairs to take pics. I'll get them and post them up tomorrow. Yay!!

Just read this whole thread and I was in suspense until I saw that you cut them and all was well.
I'm glad everything went well for you.
It'll be 3 weeks for me using the substrateless method and so far so good. The biggest problem I've had is slight molding going on with a couple eggs and I've just had to remove it with Betadine on a Qtip.
This is my first year breeding so like you I really need to ask lots of questions :)

Glad everything worked out ok for you! congrats! :gj:

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I'll just keep adding pics to this thread as they all emerge :D

Edit: the normal with its head popping out actually pipped the other side of the egg, the other normal is the one with all the bubbles, and the other spider is squiggling around a lot, so it shouldn't be long for them all to be out!

my eggs looked and did the same thing i called brian gundy and he said you can safely cut at day 50 but dont cut the amiotic fluid take a razor blade and VERY CARFULLY cut a half an inch slit they will come out on their own mine were a bit small around 50 grams or a little more and just let them come out when their ready hope it helps

congrats on your hatchlings! glad to see everything went well in the end. The first time I used the lighting grid, my eggs did the same thing. the problem wasn't using the light grid, but how well the egg boxs was sealed. I went from using the lid to using glad press n seal. don't use saran wrap. use glad press n seal. never had a problem since.

Congrats on the babies Heather!:gj:
Glad to see everything worked out for you.
And can't wait to see them all out of the eggs!

Also, thank you for the thread and and all the great members here who have commented on the issues they have had with eggs drying up when using the substrateless method. We had the same issue with our first clutch and lost several babies in the egg because they dried up pretty bad. We had thought it might of been an issue with humidity and air flow, so this thread has confirmed what we thought and helped us fix the issue with our other clutch.