Phantom?

friendttyy · Oct 18, 2014

Today, out of curiosity, i dug my b.vagans' burrow open a bit. She was sitting on a sac... She is 4 or so inches and the sac looks half an inch. I believe it was layed a 7 fays ago.. is there a way to tell if its a phantom or is waiting the only way to find out...

Beary Strange · Oct 18, 2014

If she's WC and hasn't been in your care long (long enough to molt anyway) then that increases the likelihood it's a good sac. You'd do best to leave her to it and see how things turn out.

friendttyy · Oct 18, 2014

Had her nearly a year. Doubt she is WC, in SA there is barely WC specimens IME. Thanks for replying!

Poec54 · Oct 18, 2014

friendttyy said:
Had her nearly a year. Doubt she is WC, in SA there is barely WC specimens IME. Thanks for replying!

Has she molted since you've had her?

Beary Strange · Oct 18, 2014

friendttyy said:
Had her nearly a year. Doubt she is WC, in SA there is barely WC specimens IME. Thanks for replying!

I would doubt WC too, being a Brachy, but you never know. What about who you bought her from? You can contact them and ask if she'd been bred.

Poec54 · Oct 18, 2014

Belle Fury said:
I would doubt WC too, being a Brachy, but you never know. What about who you bought her from? You can contact them and ask if she'd been bred.

Yeah, but highly unlikely they'd pair it up and then sell it, although it does happen.

jigalojey · Oct 18, 2014

It's all about the molt, if she hasn't molted in your care 90% wild caught imo never seen people selling potentially gravid females for the same price.

friendttyy · Oct 19, 2014

It molted 2 times in my care.

Cavedweller · Oct 19, 2014

In that case it is certainly infertile. A spider sheds her spermathecae each molt, losing whatever sperm she had stored.

Poec54 · Oct 19, 2014

friendttyy said:
It molted 2 times in my care.

You need to do some reading with a good T book, like TKG. It'll clear up a lot of things.

friendttyy · Oct 19, 2014

I will buy it when I see it. The LPS doesn't have it

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Poec54 · Oct 19, 2014

friendttyy said:
I will buy it when I see it. The LPS doesn't have it

I get all my books online. No store can have a big selection of anything.

friendttyy · Oct 19, 2014

That's true

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gobey · Oct 19, 2014

Definitely buy it online. My local bookstore charged me like $25 I think to order it. It's like $12 on Amazon. I bought my first copy at a LPS but it was the 1998 version.

Hydrazine · Oct 19, 2014

On a sidenote, digging up the burrow for curiosity's sake? How would you like if someone tore down your house's wall because they wanted to know how it looks inside?

Formerphobe · Oct 25, 2014

You've had her nearly a year.
She's molted twice in your care.
Did you pair her with a male? If she has not been paired, then the sac will not be viable.

friendttyy · Oct 25, 2014

I did pair her twice. Forgot to mention sorry. So there is no way of telling the difference but wait?

Poec54 · Oct 25, 2014

friendttyy said:
I did pair her twice. Forgot to mention sorry.

That's kind of a big thing to forget to mention. If the sac was laid after she mated, but before a shed, than it may be good. We should have been given the details in your first post.

friendttyy · Oct 25, 2014

Sorry. I posted after I did my homework so I was in a rush cause Exams start in 2 weeks...

BobGrill · Oct 25, 2014

Okay... that's still a big thing to forget regardless.

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