Genus Holothele

tarcan · Sep 15, 2006

It is now official, we are at 2nd generation captive inside out communal tank... we did not introduce and "foreign" males, they matured inside the tank and mated with the females that were there.

Amanda found some little babies at the entrance of the burrow. The burrow is quite deep and filled with little guys. The female has been feeding them like the good mother that she is...

Here are the pics.

Martin

sammyp · Sep 15, 2006

I'm really impressed with that set-up! Well done! How big is the tank? And are those Norte de Santander?

Texas Blonde · Sep 15, 2006

Wow! Congratulations Martin and Amanda, thats amazing! What size tank is that, and how many adults do you have living in it? Very very cool.

tarcan · Sep 15, 2006

Sorry, it is H. incei

The size of the terra is 36" long X 18" high X 13"wide

Unfortunatly we do not really know how many adults are in there, we would need to remove them all from the tank. So far we had about 6 or 7 males mature in there. But the females, I am really not sure...

Take care

Martin

Gigas · Sep 15, 2006

Wow, amazing viv ! very nice communal project!, has it run smoothely or were there some things you would have done different?

tarcan · Sep 15, 2006

Gigus, the only thing I would have done if I would have been remotly intelligent is that I would have counted how many babies I originally put in there... ah well...

The rest went fine, we basically let it go as is, fed them once a week by throwing a bunch of crikets in there, cleaned the window once in a while, but basically have not much maintenance in it.

Take care

Martin

Gigas · Sep 15, 2006

Well i'm sure someone out their has a eggsac waiting to hatch, i may try something similar with 5 inceis, What size were the T's whe you put them in?

tarcan · Sep 15, 2006

I justput the whole eggsac as soon as it hatched

Pyst · Sep 15, 2006

Martin this has to be one of the coolest setups I've seen. Makes me want to try it....badly. Is that just a bunch of large cork bark pieces ? Very nice indeed.

-Mike

Gigas · Sep 15, 2006

Another question Tarcan, how long has it been since the sac was dropped in the tank till the hatching of the second sac?

tarcan · Sep 15, 2006

We put cork bark a lot of earth and some artificial plants.

We created the set up last year in July, the eggsac probably hatched a week ago as the slings are feeding

tarcan · Sep 22, 2006

Holothele sp. Aragua female

syndicate · Sep 22, 2006

man that communal setup is awesome.any special lid on that so the slings couldnt escape?

tarcan · Sep 22, 2006

Syndicate... humm it is actually funny that you point that out... there is only an aquarium style lid on it and when I introduced the slings I did not think they could escape not being strong enough to lift the lid... well I was proven wrong as a few evening later I kept finding babies H. incei all over the place!

I taped the whole thing to make sure they could not escape and piled a bunch of dictionaries on the small lid, did not have any problem since then!

Take care

Martin

tarcan · Sep 22, 2006

Here are a few more pics of mommy letting the babies out for some fresh air!

syndicate · Sep 22, 2006

lol thanks for the reply!im loving your setup.must be great watching them all do there thing.

TheNatural · Sep 23, 2006

wow, thats a very very nice set up.
Have you ever tryed any communal tank before with any other especie?

Congrats man!!

tarcan · Sep 23, 2006

The Natural...

No not really... the reason why I tried this one is that I observed them being quite "communal" in their natural environnement in Trinidad...

I tried once with C. elegans... ended up with a really fat one, but I had not put them in a huge enclosure, I had just put ten in a delicup... I will probably try again with C. elegans since I always have them in abondance.

Take care

Martin

SOAD · Sep 24, 2006

how big is she Martin? do you know the lifespan of h.incei?

P. Novak · Sep 24, 2006

So I take it that H. incei is a very communal species?? How many specimens do you think I could fit in a 10 gallon?

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