F1refly wrote: Well thats why I asked. A little discussion. I wonder if Uncle Stans got anything to say about this.

Uncle Stan is sitting here with his eyes wide and mouth agape! :blink:

My gut reaction is that it's a bad idea. But, I can't think of any really good reason for saying so. I think what we need is for a couple of people to actually try it, and report back on how things went, and whether there was a resulting eggsac and babies.

A lot of its success might depend on just how long the female was kept in the frig, i.e. how cold she got.

This puts me in mind of a funny joke I saw the other day:

If you want to find out who really loves you,
Lock both your spouse and your dog in the trunk of your car.
Come back an hour later, and let them out. :ohmy:

:happy:

Straight off the bat It is a bad Idea.
The strain on the spider, Risk factor, not practical in the mating game.

If you think how ruff mating can get and some time the force of the male used, now you add a frozen tarantula that can barely move and you add a male that has got one thing in mind, the female wont be able to either stop he's advance or control him. :starwars: . She also need to be able to bend, if she is frozen she can't allow that to happen.

Here is another when a spider is molting the spider is at its most vulnerable state, a frozen spider will be in the same category.

If you have seen a cold spider they basically are dead, I have had a 10cm B. vagans and 3 other spiders that wore frozen as the heating pad I was using failed in the middle of winter, they wore out in the open part of the "Spider House" which basically gets as cold as the outside temps even colder.

Normally, mating of spider happen in summer early spring, it normally happens at warmer temps so now putting a spider into the freezer is risky at best, you have to time it right or you can kill your spider!
The amount of effort you need to put in to making it work, the right time in the fridge, the male not interested so you have to do it over and over.
Basically give the female a ruffy(date rap), cause that is basically what you are suggesting! :evilgrin: :spider: :drunk:

I would say try it with something like a Curly and see what happens to it!
I have 2 Mature males.

Well thats if he gets it right to mate her.. im sure she will be a bit more gullible. il put my Cancerides female in the fridge quick, take her out and chuck my Irminia male with her when i take her out .............. = f#@* cool looking ts !

just kiddin bud..

Im willing to try when my female curly matures. Got a male so hopefully my female moults before he died. If experimentation didnt happen we would all still be cave men.
@ Cascade: the tarantula would go in the fridge not the freezer the whole concept is to slow the female down, not make curly pops.

Fridge or freezer, both the same thing!
One is colder than the other, and will work faster than the other!

Fridge = 6.5⁰C
Freezer = -8.1⁰C

F1refly wrote: Im willing to try when my female curly matures. Got a male so hopefully my female moults before he died. If experimentation didnt happen we would all still be cave men.

Ok, so it's all good and well that you want to experiment, but there is no control situation in this experiment of yours, so the results won't mean much.
How would you know if the female has reacted any different to not being cooled?
Another female of the same species could react very differently. Even if you decide to mate the same spider before/after the cooling, her attitude could differ greatly if she has been successfully mated or a number of other factors that we might not even know about.
I just think that any "results" from this experiment won't do anything to change my mind.