Thats very interesting. I love your pics dude. Very cool documentation...

Maybe there is something else hiding in there

Dimitri wrote: Thats very interesting. I love your pics dude. Very cool documentation...

Maybe there is something else hiding in there

Thanks man, I use the setting, no flash and a 60watt energy saver light as illumination.

After sometime of checking on the burrow, it seems the larger spider is MIA, and 8 slings (what I have been able to count) have taken over the burrow.

It seem as a few more slings have moved away from mommy, the distance between mommy's house and the newest slings burrow is 50cm.

Update - 14 April 2013.

I have noticed that the webbing in the left hand corner has been changing and has become more built up, over the past couple of weeks.

I was expecting some more sling from the "nest" in the front, as the female has really webbed up a lot.
I have also seen slings in her webbing, but they were from the first female egg sack.
This is the "nest" I'm talking about.



I have been waiting and watching in hope to see the new slings, to my surprise, got more slings, but not from where I thought.
They have emerged from the same "nest" as the first lot of slings. so that would mean there is more than one female in the back, left hand corner.

The new slings on the block.



The new slings with the older bigger slings.



I find this very interesting and cool, the Isopods have started eating the skin of the leafs and leaving the outlines behind.
This leaf was used by on of the larger spider as part of he's entrance and the isopods have just left the outline for the spider.

Great update,

Love how there seems to be something new every day in this enclosure. Any chance that the bigger slings will attack the smaller ones?

No, not really, as far as they are concerned they "family" and as they are a "communal" species, they are tolerant of each other. Smaller slings tend to be more accepting of each other, can even take another egg sack from outside the enclosure and add it into to communal they will be excepted, But, you do get your odd occasion when they eat each other.

The thing that I find with this species, as long as they are in a communal setup, they have a basic "mind" set that they are part of group and there is other spiders that can eat and kill them, so they walk differently and behave diffidently.

As long as they are introduced into a new setup, at the same time, that tends to help them settle in together.

Hmmm, very interesting, will keep that in mind, thank you.