Pastel Butter x Spider (Maternal Incubation)

[meowmeowkazoo]

How bout cleaning? When they continue to feed, they continue to poo.... No cleaning?


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How often they poop depends on a lot of things. Hatchlings don't poop that often at all because they are using so much of the mouse/rat to grow. I imagine a similar thing will happen with Charlotte. She depleted her body a lot by laying eggs, so much of the food she eats will be used up with little waste left over.

That said, she's been very passive with me messing around in the tub. She may just be used to it because I do it so often, or it may be a temperament thing. I don't think I'll need to clean the tub while she is incubating, but if I do then it shouldn't be an issue.

[meowmeowkazoo]

New update. I didn't feed a rat this time because they still need another week to grow, but this time she killed the soft fur away from the eggs entirely, which was new and interesting.



I checked on her afterward and found a VERY excited snake that was VERY interested in more food. It was scary but awesome, lol. After I recorded this I checked back again, and she had wrapped the eggs but is still on high alert for more food.

[meowmeowkazoo]

Charlotte is still doing great, has the eggs well wrapped. She's still hungry so I'll probably feed her a bit more often.

[meowmeowkazoo]

Day 23 of incubation. Still a hungry momma, still incubating like a champ. Temperatures seem to stay around 87.5 - 88.5 degrees.

[meowmeowkazoo]

Today I offered Charlotte a weaned rat. She became extremely excited, enough that she partially uncoiled and began roaming the tub. She ALMOST grabbed it multiple times, but stopped at the last second. I think if I scent the rat first she will probably take it, but it's still a little frustrating. I wish I'd had a weaned rat available for her very first meal.

[kikkimea]

Awesome video!

[gaiaeagle]

This is very neat. She looks like she is taking good care of her eggs. BTW, my female spider ball is also named Charlotte.

[meowmeowkazoo]

Very happy tonight!

Attempted to feed Charlotte a weaned rat again, because I'd like to get her on those instead of mice/soft furs. She would not take it, but did get excited and started sniffing around.

Then, I had a light bulb moment. I took the rat out, and sprinkled some used soft fur bedding in her cage. I waited a few minutes to make sure she smelled soft furs, then reintroduced the weaned rat and she SLAMMED it.

Eggs are still doing well, and this is Charlotte's fourth meal while maternally incubating.

[meowmeowkazoo]

And here's a random pic of how I'm keeping track of egg temperatures.

[Mr. Misha]

Its awesome to see that she's eating for you.

Good job on keeping up with the updates. Really excited to follow this journey and for the day the little ones will hatch.

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