A couple new tarantula eggsacs

Pterinochilus murinus -
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Brachypelma schroederi -
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Thats just really neat to me. They are so small and delicate and they grow to be so big and beautiful. Thanks for sharing some great pics!:D

Awesome pics, and congrats! :D Thanks for sharing

Wow! Amazing :) Congrats and hopefully you grow some big hairy spiders.

Regards,

B

Congrats on the new egg sacs!! How was it pulling the sac from your OBT?

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Congrats on the new egg sacs!! How was it pulling the sac from your OBT?

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Just a leisurely walk in the park as usual. Complete with ninja-like dodges, cat-like reflexes allowing me to get the mom in a deli cup before she grabs me, and finishing with a deep exhalation after holding my breath through the whole ordeal.

Not really that dramatic. She just rears up and stays in one spot over the eggsac, and I cup her, and remove her from the cage. But the first description sounds better. :)

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Originally Posted by jmugleston

Just a leisurely walk in the park as usual. Complete with ninja-like dodges, cat-like reflexes allowing me to get the mom in a deli cup before she grabs me, and finishing with a deep exhalation after holding my breath through the whole ordeal.

Not really that dramatic. She just rears up and stays in one spot over the eggsac, and I cup her, and remove her from the cage. But the first description sounds better. :)

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LOL - The first discription was very entertaining and actually believable :gj:

I am sure even if all you have to do is cup her then I would imagine you still get a little bit of an adrenaline rush which has to make the ordeal at least a little exciting for you to do :D

Congrats :)

What's the rough average per sac? sorry, I know nothing about Inverts... starting to learn a little more browsing around BPnet tho over that past several months.

Still my biggest fear in life I'd have to say, arachnids.. however like stated above, learning more and more is def giving me a new appreciation for them, and is helping the fears. Also was at a reptile store here in N. Cali a few months ago and this place had thousands of tarantulas. the lady had me "pet" the underside of a huge one and was suprisingly one of the softest things I think I have ever touched :) An incredibly gentle spider for how massive it was.

Careful. Once you start learning about them they become more interesting. Fear gives way to even more curiosity and before you know it you have a room full of thousands of spiders. That's what happened to me!

As for the average eggsac it depends on the species. Some have a ton of spiderlings but the spiderlings are incredibly small (e.g., the genera Brachypelma, Nhandu, Acanthoscurria). Another trend is to have relatively few babies (50-100) but they're much larger (e.g., Megaphobema, Theraphosa, Xenesthis). There are a number that fall in between these as well. Our Poecilotheria, Pterinochilus, and Heteroscodra eggsacs are typically between 100 and 200 slings. So it just depends on the species.

Incredible. It just blows my mind how long that would take to individually seperate and house all those slings by themselves once big enough to be on their own. It has got to take some serious time, am I correct?

Thanks so much for the info man.. you are right.. my curiosity could damn well get the best of me and I could be building a new room to house the new "thing" here before I know it. haha.

It does take some time. You get it down on a system though and it goes relatively quickly. I typically house the spiderlings together until they get to the point that they start eating each other. Usually by then the majority go to the larger arachnid dealers so I am only left with what I can sell at the shows.