Check it out!! 81!!

[spartybassoon]

I pulled the first sac today and found 81 healthy A. avicularia slings! I'm not sure whether these are enormous eggs w/legs, or 1st instar, but I'll know when they molt next. Hooray!! Not a single bad egg or dead spider!! Check out my breeding report when you get the chance.
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0668.jpg
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0676.jpg
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0671.jpg

[UrbanJungles]

Congrats! those are 1st instar....good luck!

[Mina]

Congratulations Josh!!!!!!!! I'm jealous! :drool: I want a sack of my own so bad!!!!!! They are beautiful!!!!

[spartybassoon]

Thanks, guys!

@Mina - I ended up betraying my spider brethren at the show by actually NOT buying any T's, but a male crested and a male veiled chameleon instead:eek:

[spartybassoon]

Here is the sac before it was opened.
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0599.jpg

[Talkenlate04]

Your eggs with legs are awesome man!!! Congrats :clap: :clap: :clap:
Here's to hoping that second sac goes just as well!

[Aarantula]

That's freaking awesome!!! You have got to post pics with each group molt!!! I love the pics of a ton of slings all in one container... they just look so cool!!!

[WyvernsLair]

"eggs with legs" are usually nothing more than a yellow round ball with tiny limbs sticking out like an afterthought. those look like first instar to me.

[penny'smom]

"eggs with legs" are usually nothing more than a yellow round ball with tiny limbs sticking out like an afterthought. those look like first instar to me.


I agree; those kids are movers, not weeble-wobbles.

[UrbanJungles]

Jeez Ryan, if anyone knows eggs with legs I thought it would be you...
;P

[Talkenlate04]

Jeez Ryan, if anyone knows eggs with legs I thought it would be you...
;P

Well considering he opened the sac less then two weeks ago and they were eggs, and then he sewed it back up till today when he took it again and found those, it's only logical to think they are eggs with legs. So I guess the timeline is off somewhere.........But yes they do look like 1st instars now that I look at them again.

[jbrd]

Congratulations on your successful egg sac. :clap:

[spartybassoon]

Thanks, everyone! I am excited to watch them develop. Hopefully, the hardest parts are over.

[desertdweller]

Congrats!!!!! How long until you find homes for these little darlings?

[spartybassoon]

Whenever they molt next, I guess. I'm guessing anywhere from 3 to 6 weeks, but I could be way off because I don't know exactly when they molted into 1st instars.

[WyvernsLair]

I agree; those kids are movers, not weeble-wobbles.


oh i like that term.... weeble-wobbles. {D

[Arachno_Shack]

Great job man!!!:clap:

They really look great.....Give yourself a pat on the back!:worship:



Tim

[spartybassoon]

Here are the latest pics. You can see that they have darkened up a bit, and some have the beginnings of black socks. I'm guessing another week or two?
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0810.jpg
Check out the fat one in the middle - you KNOW he ate someone!!
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0812.jpg

[Kevmaster06]

wow great job! not a sigle dead or unfertile! you must be lucky!

[spartybassoon]

Thanks! I did have a couple that didn't quite make it out of their molts and had bits of exuvium keeping their legs stuck together, but I went in and brushed them with a wet q-tip and gently pulled the exuvium from them. We'll see if they make the next molt or not.

[Talkenlate04]

Ha! And you can see the fatty that ate someone too!
Looking good so far! Congrats!

[Arachno_Shack]

Sweet!!!!!

They are looking great! Good job man! ;) Hmmm...I think I may want that fat one!



Tim

[spartybassoon]

Lol, I'll set him aside, Tim!! Yeah, some poor sap wandered into the wrong pair of fangs one day. It took him a good two or three days to eat the whole thing, too:drool:

[Arachno_Shack]

Lol, I'll set him aside, Tim!! Yeah, some poor sap wandered into the wrong pair of fangs one day. It took him a good two or three days to eat the whole thing, too:drool:

HaHa! Stellar.;P
Just let me know when he's ready!....;)

[smof]

Haha, that fatty actually made me LOL. He looks so suspicious, like "What, me? I didn't do anything, no idea what you're talking about."

[penny'smom]

They're looking great Sparty! Tell fatty to lay off the siblings! LOL.

[spartybassoon]

Thanks! Yeah, he's gonna need to go on the Subway diet....

[DJThinK]

Is it just me or are baby tarantulas insanely cute? I mean like cute cute.... like cuter than the Puppy Bowl cute even. In fact there should be a 2nd instar bowl on T-Day. Oh man! Someone do a live web cam cast of a bunch of slings.

[spartybassoon]

Yeah, they're cute, but i like'em even better when they hit 2nd instar and are fuzzy little speedballs:wicked:

[spartybassoon]

So close!! Any day now on a few of these suckers!
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0917.jpg
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0918.jpg

[Arachno_Shack]

Nice pics!

I know which one is mine!;)


lol..........



Tim

[Lucara]

Wow..lol they really do just flop over anywhere dont they.

[spartybassoon]

Yeah! One thing I noticed (which may be obvious to others) is that the closer they get to molting at this stage, the more mobile they become. When they first came out of the sac (at 1st instar) they were only capable of waving their legs, slowly. Now, I see a couple of them climbing up the coffee filter about a cm or so!! I'm not sure how I am going to corral them in the next few days, maybe I will just set them up communally. If I do that, do I just toss it a ton of pinheads, or would larger pre-killed crickets work as well?

Wow, feeding a communal batch might suck, since Avics tends to like to come out of the jar and not go back INTO it!!

[Arachno_Shack]

Yeah! One thing I noticed (which may be obvious to others) is that the closer they get to molting at this stage, the more mobile they become. When they first came out of the sac (at 1st instar) they were only capable of waving their legs, slowly. Now, I see a couple of them climbing up the coffee filter about a cm or so!! I'm not sure how I am going to corral them in the next few days, maybe I will just set them up communally. If I do that, do I just toss it a ton of pinheads, or would larger pre-killed crickets work as well?

Wow, feeding a communal batch might suck, since Avics tends to like to come out of the jar and not go back INTO it!!

IMO, a ton of pinheads would be better than having the lot scavenge over prekilled crix. To cover all bases, maybe you can toss in alot of pinheads, plus a few prekilled ones.

And yeah, you're right....feeding them is going to be fun!!!!!


Tim

[spartybassoon]

So Tim, can you give me a good time frame for feeding? I figure that I ought to wait about 5-7 days after they molt to toss food in, but i don't want to wait too long or else I lose half my spiders. Also, do I go ahead and toss in about 80 crix at once and not feed again for a week, or do I drop more crix in every few days to keep the hungry ones from eating each other?

Also, for anyone who has bred T's and kept the slings communal for a while, what size container would you use for roughly 75 slings?

[spartybassoon]

Finally! These little weeble wobbles are molting into 2nd instar slings! Please excuse the picture quality, it was taken through mesh - to keep them from escaping as they molt.
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0940.jpg

[funnylori]

So cute! They look amazing molting like that!

[spartybassoon]

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0948.jpg
Can you see Bucky, Satchel, and Rob in the middle there?{D
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii204/spartybassoon/100_0949.jpg

[Arachno_Shack]

NICE!!!!!

Lookin' Good!:clap:


Pretty soon, eh? I love these guys!

[redknee_freak]

congrats bro, looks like your first sac is doing quitewell for you.

did you pull the sac or just let the mom do her job


how much will you be selling these for once they are ready

[spartybassoon]

Thanks! I pulled it from the mother when they were 1st instars. I haven't yet figured out a price, but they'll be in the F/S soon, so keep your eyes peeled.

[Staley]

Very nice. Congratulations.

[redknee_freak]

when was the right time to take from the moma
only asking cuz i am going to try and breed this sp.

[spartybassoon]

Many people take the sac between days 35 and 45. Some people like to take it earlier than that and manually incubate the eggs. Personally, I've only done it once, but I liked taking them and finding 1st instars because that meant I didn't have to swirl the eggs at all. If you leave it with the mother, it will be a couple months before you see any babies, depending on temps. Avics are great moms (so they say), but at the same time, a little bit of cannibalism will occur if you leave them that long. The sooner you take them, the more control you have over cannibalism, to an extent. I still lost three or four to hungry brothers even though they were taken early.

[redknee_freak]

whatsis the best temps to keep them at

how do you control them from eating one another

excuse all the questions just trying to get a heads up on the info before i breed these T's

[spartybassoon]

I got most of my information from this thread and other members of the board. You can see my breeding report on the second page. PM me if you have any more questions, and let us know when you do it!

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=13647

[redknee_freak]

alright will do once i get a male for my female when she is ready

right now i have bred my female regalis with a fellow member's male