Heteropoda venatoria w/ eggsac at 2.5"?

KyuZo

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Heteropoda venatoria gets 5" so i don't expect them to mature around 4", but mine made an eggsac(infertile) yesterday and it is only 2.5". did anyone else experience this? well, at least i know now that it's a female.
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beetleman

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i had a bunch of them also that i collected where i live(fla) and i had a very small female,she had an eggsack i thought i would be infertile,boy was i wrong,the eggs hatched! so it's possible.
 
KyuZo

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i didn't put her with a male tho. so she never mated.
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massmorels

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Mine is only 3" and just dropped a sac today.. I was suprised to! Thought I wouldnt see that until the 5" mark.
 
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One of mine dropped a sac at 3" as well. I think there are a lot of H. venatoria around currently that are slightly smaller than usual. My biggest is 3.75", and the others are decently smaller at the same final molt stage. No 4-5" here :(
 
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KyuZo

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Mine came from Dragontear (Renee) and her female that produces the slings was 5"
 
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Grupofix

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Hi, I've got eggsacks from two really different Heteropoda species. On is sp.Guiana about 4" and another sp. from Philippinnen 1,5".

here is a pic of Guiana one


I'hope I'll get a photo of Philippinnen speci soon, but I'm afraid of disturbing her.

So I have a question what is necessary for the spiderlings?

BTW: Guiana spiderlings are avible now.

Thanx G
 
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i have a female Heteropoda venatoria that i captured at about 2" LS and is now at 3.5" LS (which i consider not fully grown yet, because i have kept adult specimens at 5" DLS). it had made two infertile eggsacs in my care. i am not really sure if there indeed had been eggs within the sacs because when i removed them after a couple of weeks, they were hollow/empty.
 
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hi,
I asked Peter Jäger last time I phoned him about Heteropoda sp. from South America. He said the only species occuring there was Heteropoda venatoria.
I got some Heteropoda from the Domenican Republic about 2 years ago and bred them several times...I always had females and males being adult in different sizes.
 
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rex_arachne

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KyuZo said:
maybe the eggs hatched and got out before you know it. possibility?
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no she's never mated, so ifever there were eggs, they were infertile. i caught her december last year at about 2" LS, now shes almost 4" LS.
 
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