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14 years 11 months ago #32674 by Ceratogyrus
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Currently sitting with:
P.fasciata eggs with legs (Should be first instars within the week) - Half are Hendriks
P.regalis first instars (Should be 2nd instars within 2 weeks)
P.striata eggs with legs (Darkening for moult to 1st instars) - Half are Raven's
P.formosa 2nd instars - 1 more moult to eating
P.miranda 3rd instars - 1 more moult to eating
M.balfouri egg case - Half are scarab's. She unfortunately messed half of the eggs on the ground while she was laying, so not expecting much out of the sac. :(

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14 years 11 months ago #32694 by Ceratogyrus
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Thanks everyone for the supportive messages above, via email, sms, etc.

scarab and I rehoused the miranda this afternoon and unfortunately there were only 32 babies that made it to 3rd instar.

As it is a breeding loan, I am going to keep my half of the slings and the owner of the male said he might sell a few of his.

As there will probably only be 10 or so that will go on sale to the public, I recommend you jump at the chance to own this fantastic spider. Who knows when they will become available again? They will probably be sold at a premium, but when you have that adult female sitting in your collection, it will be well worth it. :)

As for the rest, I will probably not get time to deliver spiders, so have asked a friend of mine if he will please sell them for me. Sure he will advertise on the site when they are ready, so get ready for some fasciata, regalis, striata, formosa and a few mirandas in the next few weeks. :)

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14 years 11 months ago #32724 by Ceratogyrus
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P.striata and P.fasciata have started moulting into 1st instars as of last night.
P.formosa and P.regalis have darkened, so shoud be 3rd and 2nd instars respectively by this weekend.

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14 years 11 months ago #32866 by Ceratogyrus
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Was rewarded with a 2nd fasciata sac this morning. :)
Female is mine and male was the same male from Hendrik that mated with my other female.
If everything goes well, im hoping to leave the sac with the female till the babies leave her hide at 2nd instar and leave a few with her as a communal. :)

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14 years 11 months ago #33040 by Ceratogyrus
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P.regalis started moulting into 2nd instars last night, so will pack them up next week ready for sale.
A friend will hopefully be selling them for me on the site, so please dont order any from me. :)

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14 years 11 months ago #33230 by Ceratogyrus
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Some updates:
1st regalis sac - Just short of 100 slings.
2nd regalis sc - 76 slings
striata - 1st instars - Looks like around 100
1st fasciata - 1st instars - Looks like around 130
2nd fasciata - eggcase still with mom. Will leave it there till I wake up with spiderlings on the ceiling. :)
formosa - 2nd/3rd instars - 62 made it through
miranda - 2nd/3rd instars - 38 made it.

A quick note or those breeding pokies that only start eating at 3rd instar (formosa, miranda, metallica, etc)
Even though these aren't suppose to eat until 3rd instar, they most definately do at 2nd instar already. Lost around 30 miranda after leaving them together at 2nd instar and when I went to go check on my formosa this evening, the 2nd instars were snacking on the freshly moulted 3rd instars. :( Luckily looks like I only lost 5 or so formosas to their brothers and sisters.

I suspect that if the eggcases were left with the mother and she raised the slings, she would feed the 2nd instars (Like balfouri do - uncle scarab has witnessed this) which might stop them from cannibilising their siblings. I am also taking a guess that lots of other spiders would possibly "feed" their 1st instar babies. No proof of this, but I will monitor my fasciata when I feed her while she has 1st instars in the nest, if all is successful of course. :)

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