Hi guys been a bit busy on the forum but would just like to say i have sucess with four(4) Poecilotheria metallica sacks in the mechanical mom and more females to drop. so be careful who you buy from and check price as i wont be charging "killer prices" like some people before on this forum. and all are growing within the desired conditions> the first pic i'm gonna show is of the firs sack laid and this female double clutched another sack 19 days ago :spider: :rock

oh and to those that showed disrespect towards myself ill mail you the exuviums ok :laugh:

4 sacs ! Congrats man ! So I guess metallica are not as hard to breed as some have Exaggerated ..

Huzaifah wrote: 4 sacs ! Congrats man ! So I guess metallica are not as hard to breed as some have Exaggerated ..

It is easy to breed any spider, it is easy to get a spider to drop, it is easy to hatch a sack, it is easy to raise them from eggs with legs, it is easy to do anything regarding spiders, piece of cake. (Not all the time)
But the saying comes into play, never count your chickens before they hatch, you can look at the eggs and say 'well done mommy'

And again, there was no over exaggeration with regards to breeding them in the first place, there was not allot of info on breeding them to start with, as people breed them they learn the tricks and triggers to getting any spider to drop a egg sack and then looking after that sack.

If they were that easy, everybody would have had breed these spiders, if it was that easy we would all have Megaphobema robustum and all sorts of cool and new species in the hobby, captive breed species.

Some spiders are harder than others, even with experience and Mechanical mom stuff still goes wrong.
AGAIN, never count your chickens before they hatch.

Take a look at Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, in the past they were the hardest species to breed and now look at the success rate people have had with them.

Theraphosa species that Hendrik breed out, that was the biggest sack that has been breed out in SA, the most slings that came out and survived.

Success is dictated by the outcome of the attempt.
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I still stick to what comes naturally to all living species. If conditions are favorable conducive to the correct habitat they originate from. They will thrive and regarding the egg sack well that depends on if the male inserted properly or if he was fertile or not due to the poor genetic flow on tarantula breeding in S.A. All species have a genetic "code" hence inbreeding will effect them. One needs to ascertain the design and cage dimensions, depth of peat, heat, humidity, altitude etc then once all aspects are monitored can you have some sort of inclination what is going on and what's going wrong. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about a mechanical mom, but speaking about experienced over 20 years working in zoos etc irrespective all babies go into ICU incubators as its survival rates are much higher than leaving with mom and that's a given fact !!!


Ray-Nature Conservator

@ Huzil- like all species. If conditions favour them they will mate and reproduce no problem its that simple. The people having issues with mating and reproduction means stress is involved and underlying issues as mentioned in my above mentioned comment. This comes from the "conservation ethics bible" whistle2 just what we call lecture books with solid and valid fundamental values true to its nature.

@Jake , a few years ago there was only a few people in S.A who had p.metallicas and some lucky enough to breed them , the offspring produced then have matured by now and more people have p.metallica's now then back then so they are trying their hand at breeding .. More people having metallicas = more mating attemts = more succsesfu breedings ..(Same with other Ts)
Now there is more info on breeding this species .

I agree that some stuff are hard to breed , well mating is easy but getting the sac is the tricky part like with m.robustums I see some people have mature pairs so perhaps in the future we will see more of them (Duan I hope you have sucsess) ...

With therphosa some people have gotten sacs from their ts , either they were not good or ended up being eaten