Parabuthus villosus Mating

Najakeeper

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My orange male has been an adult for about 6 months and black female for 3 months. My intention was to breed these to see the color of the babies and so far it is going good. They have been together for a couple hours now.

Here are a couple pictures and a video:





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darkness975

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lol at how they pull each other along like they're holding hands. It's always amusing to watch the rituals (not that they let us very often).
 
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didnt know you could mate the 2 different morphs like that

but pretty cool though :D
 
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Roblicious said:
didnt know you could mate the 2 different morphs like that

but pretty cool though :D
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I have no idea what's going to happen. They are the same species so the mating should be succesful but I haven't seen any offspring from anybody.

After more than 24 hours, lovin' continues:

 
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Gorgeous. I absolutely love the orange morph villosus.
Wish they were more readily available here in the states.
Good luck with your pairing.
 
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might be the same as chocolate morph jacksoni and normal morph ones, I have both in the same enclosure and they mate and get along fine
 
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They stayed together for about 72 hours. After 2 days male lost interest and they spent the last 24 hours in separate corners. Hopefully he did what he was supposed to do.
 
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Najakeeper said:
They stayed together for about 72 hours. After 2 days male lost interest and they spent the last 24 hours in separate corners. Hopefully he did what he was supposed to do.
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Wow! I'd say that was successful! Keep us updated! Interesting to see what will happen!
 
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I have kept a typical male and a black female together for a year or so and all is well. The offspring is black by the way and it will be in your case as well, I suppose.
But interbreeding the young again for the next generation might be interesting, which is what I will try.

Regards
Finn
 
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Can't really say. My female was in instar 7 when I introduced her into the tank of the male, so I did not write it down when they mated, because I though she was still subadult and the mating was just a dry run. But it was somewhere last year. But then, to my astonishment, she littered 2 months ago :)
But at least it is a good example that not all female P. villosus reach maturity in instar 8.

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Finn
 
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