CitizenNumber9
Arachnobaron
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A: A slow one!
Today I was doing a little "redecorating" in some of the enclosures (adding more substrate, putting better hides, etc.,) including an adult female OBT. Unlike most of what I've heard and experienced with the other two that I own, rather than making mad dashes and only threatening me when cornered, she pretends to be a pet rock before angrily striking my feeding tongs! It is so difficult to get her to move, all she wants to do is KILL
On another note, I could use some helpful advice as well. I really wanted to fix up her housing today because I'm hoping she has a fair amount of little buns in the oven I paired her last week, and was a little concerned that because she ALWAYS has herself blockaded in her cork hide, I wouldn't know she had laid a sac until I woke up to little brown devils all over the place. Not to mention, she could've used more sub and a little spot cleaning (not much, she is pretty neat). Here are some photos of the remodeled set up:
Sorry for the lousy quality, in the back corner you can see where I put a nice "neat" pile of spaghnum moss in case I needed to up humidity:
The inside of the log is now visible from the side:
I taped black poster board over it so that she wouldn't feel the need to block it out herself, leaving me a convenient window to check for a sac every once in a while:
Here is the pretty girl:
Questions:
1) Once she lays a sac and I remove the water dish (thanks Rick!), should I be keeping her humidity relatively high or just bump it up a tiny bit?
2) When should I pull the sac? I have heard all sorts of reasons to pull it one day or another but is there a species-specific day that I should pull this one? I'd prefer to not have little OBT slings running around in the enclosure but I also prefer to grab around 1i or later if possible.
3) Please share any personal experience you've had breeding these that may come in handy
Thanks everyone!
Today I was doing a little "redecorating" in some of the enclosures (adding more substrate, putting better hides, etc.,) including an adult female OBT. Unlike most of what I've heard and experienced with the other two that I own, rather than making mad dashes and only threatening me when cornered, she pretends to be a pet rock before angrily striking my feeding tongs! It is so difficult to get her to move, all she wants to do is KILL
On another note, I could use some helpful advice as well. I really wanted to fix up her housing today because I'm hoping she has a fair amount of little buns in the oven I paired her last week, and was a little concerned that because she ALWAYS has herself blockaded in her cork hide, I wouldn't know she had laid a sac until I woke up to little brown devils all over the place. Not to mention, she could've used more sub and a little spot cleaning (not much, she is pretty neat). Here are some photos of the remodeled set up:
Sorry for the lousy quality, in the back corner you can see where I put a nice "neat" pile of spaghnum moss in case I needed to up humidity:
The inside of the log is now visible from the side:
I taped black poster board over it so that she wouldn't feel the need to block it out herself, leaving me a convenient window to check for a sac every once in a while:
Here is the pretty girl:
Questions:
1) Once she lays a sac and I remove the water dish (thanks Rick!), should I be keeping her humidity relatively high or just bump it up a tiny bit?
2) When should I pull the sac? I have heard all sorts of reasons to pull it one day or another but is there a species-specific day that I should pull this one? I'd prefer to not have little OBT slings running around in the enclosure but I also prefer to grab around 1i or later if possible.
3) Please share any personal experience you've had breeding these that may come in handy
Thanks everyone!