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Well to start this off, in the beginning of September 2013 i had around 670 B. vagans slings get out of an incubator through vent holes. http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?217014-did-some-pairing-last-night/page38 Post #562 shows the culprits. I only caught around 179 of them! Some got eaten by house spiders, the rest dissapeared.
Fast forward to 11-26-14. I was doing some routine feeding/watering, and was using my lateralis as feeders at the moment. Well the feeders were being very uncooperative, and running down inside egg flats that i hardly ever have to dig out. This time i decided to dig out all the flats, and scare up all the lateralis, to get some spooked back to the side that i normally feed from. When i was done with a handful of flats, i laid them back down in the spot where they are always at. Then i noticed something on that set of flats that looked akward. Looked like a big black spot, like a cocoon or something. I know there is a female hacklemesh weaver that stays in with my lateralis, and i just leave her there, but this was different. So i picked up that set of flats for a closer look. As soon as the object came close enough for me to see what it was, i knew exactly what it was.
This little squirt is about 1.5-2", super plump, and in premolt. You can even see a previous molt right next to it. Looks like im gonna have to snag that molt and try to sex it. Crazy that this thing has lived with over 1K lateralis for over a year, and has not been demolished mid molt.
Fast forward to 11-26-14. I was doing some routine feeding/watering, and was using my lateralis as feeders at the moment. Well the feeders were being very uncooperative, and running down inside egg flats that i hardly ever have to dig out. This time i decided to dig out all the flats, and scare up all the lateralis, to get some spooked back to the side that i normally feed from. When i was done with a handful of flats, i laid them back down in the spot where they are always at. Then i noticed something on that set of flats that looked akward. Looked like a big black spot, like a cocoon or something. I know there is a female hacklemesh weaver that stays in with my lateralis, and i just leave her there, but this was different. So i picked up that set of flats for a closer look. As soon as the object came close enough for me to see what it was, i knew exactly what it was.
This little squirt is about 1.5-2", super plump, and in premolt. You can even see a previous molt right next to it. Looks like im gonna have to snag that molt and try to sex it. Crazy that this thing has lived with over 1K lateralis for over a year, and has not been demolished mid molt.