Is it an Ovulation??

Is my spider BP in ovulation??She bred with a pastel April 4th, and she ate just a small rat mid-april, then she stopped to eat.And she still refuse food.
This morning she was like that, like she ate a big rat, i had almost no batteries on my phone couldn't use the flash.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...73089958_n.jpg

Now 12 hours later, i think it's less visible.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5336/9...a250792f_c.jpg

what do you think?Also She shed june 8th, although she's refusing food since April.

Looks like an OV to me :gj:

Either OV or she ate a football....CG!

Ok nice, i hope i ll get some bees.The incubator is almost ready ;)

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Holy cow I would say so! Congrats!

Come back to work and found her with 6 eggs :)
I put them in the incubator, temps 31°C, and the humidity is now around 75%, is it high enough?
I can't close the lid of the shoe box cause of an egg, so i let it open in the styrofoam incubator.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...58770182_n.jpg

Describe the incubator to us. The humidity should probably be higher than 75% but the meters are notoriously bad. Is there condensation forming on the walls or lid at all? That's a good indication that it's high enough.

The temp is fine.

Congrats!

Congrats! And personally if it were me Id CAREFULLY peel that egg off n set it somewhere else in the box so you can still close the lid.

that's either an ovulation or a beer belly! congratz and if you can't close the lid on the egg tub cause of an egg. go get another tub that you will be able to close, this is important. you don't want to lose a clutch of eggs over a tub that's not that much! good luck don

The incubator i made is a styrofoam box, i ve put a heat man inside, then a big recipient with water,
then the shoe box with eggs in the recipient, in a way that it doesn't touch the water.
Eggs are on wet vermiculite, i could not find a plastic grid.
Humidity is now 76% and 31.8 on the humidity/thermometer and 31.9 on the stat.
When i was testing the incubator i used just water (substrateless) and a box with drilled holes over it, and i had 100% humidity, but i don't feel confident with eggs on a hard surface, condentation on the bottom of the eggs, so i used vermiculite...

the incubator is a box exactly like this one.And humidity is now 77% it's raising a little.

http://aide-assos.com/wp-content/upl...se-300x207.jpg

I tried to remove the egg on the top, but it s not possible without damaging it or the others...Also being on top it's colder than the others.

Here's how it was
https://sphotos-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/h...40402919_n.jpg

the eggs
https://sphotos-a-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/h...82327024_n.jpg

I've found a lid to put over everything to raise the humidity, it is now at 78%.
https://sphotos-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/h...16578690_n.jpg

the bad thing is with your humidity, you want it consistence. you can't get a tub with a little more height so you can get the lid on? I use mainly 6 qt tubs, but I also have 12 qt tubs incase I get a lot of eggs or like what you have with them being too high for a tub. could your setup work? yes could your setup fail? yes, I don't like taking any chances if I can avoid it.

just looking at you pics, I also don't like how the tub is setting directly on the heat mat. their should be an air gap and the larger the better. if nothing else use some plastic wrap to seal that lid on that tub.

I changed the tub, used the red one as the egg box and put another bigger tub under it, filled with water, over the heat mat, but i'm short on vermiculite, and shops are closed now.Now i can close the lid.

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Originally Posted by don15681

just looking at you pics, I also don't like how the tub is setting directly on the heat mat.

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It's a tub with water, not the egg tub.

Finally i found out what was the problem, the humidity meter was not good.I used another one and have 100% humidity.http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/16/py3amyge.jpg
Can i let this probeless meter inside?

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Finally, i cut at day 55 and they were out of their eggs this morning day 59.
3 Pastels 2 spiders and 1 normal

4 females
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/12/pegujy7u.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/12/temyjyba.jpg
2 males
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/12/e3ezeda2.jpg

No bumblebees for me, maybe next season...

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Congratulations!! Good job!

No bees???!!! That sux. Nice healthy clutch tho.

sent from my incubator