spinnerkop wrote: this issue im having is i bought my female pokie and the previous owner told me he mated her so if she drops he would like 50/50... So this is why im unsure if the mating was successful or not... im keeping her cage 22-26` would this be safe to keep her in? or would you say its better to leave her with the natural summer temps and if she gets fat "gravid" then i should heat her up then... coz i know playing with temperatures can kill your spider.

All I can do to help is for you to read my last post regarding my guesses at temps. I have not seen the spider, the conditions she is being kept in, etc.
I would have cooled her down after mating and warmed her up when she looked gravid.

22-26 is definately safe.
Playing with temps can kill your spiders? As long as its warmer than 10 degrees and cooler than 35 degrees, the spider should be fine. Or atleast mine are.

@ T-rad

Does that mean you have a B. vagans and G. rosea egg cases?

If that be the case please share your breeding experience.

lasiodora wrote: pilots earn stripes by being tought to fly not by giving them a milion doller jet and tell them to enjoy

Good point. Try your hand at breeding with some easier species (Even if it rain spiders) and once you have enough experience, buy your million dollar jet and try fly it.
No one forced you to buy the jet, so if you crash it, buy another one. If you can't afford a new jet, claim to be a BEE company and recieve a new jet from the government on the arms deal.

Creator wrote: @ T-rad

Does that mean you have a B. vagans and G. rosea egg cases?

If that be the case please share your breeding experience.

Nope, I only have a vagans egg sack, rosea is gravid though and should drop in about 2 weeks I'm hoping. I kept it simple, mated them, Super D came to my house and suspected my vagans was gravid so I moved her to the front of the panel heater to raise the temps to about 30, and fed her A LOT! Still left her with a water bowl and a couple of weeks later she dropped. What I'm doing now is wetting one side of the tank, took the water bowl out and put a heat pad on the side where I am wetting the substrate, the other side I leave dry, this raises the humidity to around 90% without wetting the egg sack. Now I just hold thumbs and pray for them to be alive when I pull the sack

With the rosea I mated her a few times ( by the way I'm not good with record keeping or dates ) Then she started eating a lot and became more aggressive so I moved her in front of the heater still with a water bowl and I'v just been feeding her a lot as well. I plan to wet the substrate and get the humidity up like with the vagans. O and I have been keeping her quite dry besides the water bowl because of her natural habitat. Generally spiders mate at the end of winter/spring and then fall gravid and drop in summer (I think) so I try to replicate these environments.

My friend just bred A. avicularia and also had semi success, mated her a few times then she actually dropped sooner than he expected, so when she did drop he flooded the tank and raised the temps for the egg sack.

By the way the mating were done in winter, so the temps sometimes dropped to below 20, but in front of the heater it is about 30. Can I just say that these are apparently easy spiders to breed and I'm calling this beginners luck. I did talk to a lot of people about breeding and that is where I got the basics from, but as Cerat said you do learn to read your spiders and experience does play a part in the process.

I hope this helps I know it is probably what everyone else told you to do but it seems to work pretty well.

Boy oh boy do I have a task ahead of me...

I am now in a position to be one of very few (so I hear) to attempt breeding Xenesthis Immanis...

My male is not even mature yet, and the female needs to eat a bowl of pasta before she is anywhere near breeding fit, but I am already nervous as hell to give it a try. These T's are super hard to come by, so if I do something wrong, or the female chomps the male, it could be a VERY long time before I can try it again.

I have asked for advice already from a few overseas breeders and forums but info is just as scarce as the spider... so hold thumbs for me peeps.

Does anyone have any expreience with S. calceatum?
A few tips?

I have paired the two three times and i have witnessed two succesfull insertions. Since then, the male has completely stopped tapping.

Any help would be appreciated!