Louis wrote: Hi Jake you were boasting with the answer earlier in some of your picks (Isopods)

Are you referring to the fact that Isopods can carry nemotoeds or that the Isopods caused my tanks demise?

no the eaten spider, the isopods will eat any thing dead, isopods should not harm your setup (as the are crustaceans) sorry man i should have quoted the text i was refering to did not realize that i was this far back in the postings

Update 16 March 2015

I was able to locate a mature male on a breeding loan.

Added the male to the remaining 2 females that are still living together in a communal.
I left the male in with the females over night and when I came back to check up on him the one female was busy eating on the male.

About a day ago i was busy checking on and feeding my spiders when i saw the one female had an egg sack, so every everything goes well i will have a start to my communal again. .

I cant upload pictures as i have not taken then as I do not want to disturb the female just in case decides to eat the egg sack.

i was thinking of starting a Monocentropus balfouri communal but i know a breeder that has lost 3 due to them disturbing each other during molting.

I think with any communal where you have more than 1 spider in close proximity to each other, it is not avoidable and you as the owner can't worry what is going on inside the communal, so all you can do is feed and water and make sure the cage is clean for anything else it is up to the spiders to sort out.

Normally when a spider is going to molt it makes sure it is away from everyone else by webbing herself up that not even a cricket can get past the webbing, so i would not worry about that to much, if you got the spdiers then why not give it a try.

just bear in mind that at any given time your communal can go south.

So an Update to 16^th March 2015 post.


So there is an awesome development in the start of the communal again!

On the 10th of April I opened the container to find this..
Mommy had started webbing out for the babies and the babies where out and about just webbing around.