Check it out!! 81!!

[Talkenlate04]

Ha! And you can see the fatty that ate someone too!
Looking good so far! Congrats!

 

[Arachno_Shack]

Sweet!!!!!

They are looking great! Good job man! Hmmm...I think I may want that fat one!



Tim

 

[spartybassoon]

Lol, I'll set him aside, Tim!! Yeah, some poor sap wandered into the wrong pair of fangs one day. It took him a good two or three days to eat the whole thing, too:drool:

 

[Arachno_Shack]

Lol, I'll set him aside, Tim!! Yeah, some poor sap wandered into the wrong pair of fangs one day. It took him a good two or three days to eat the whole thing, too:drool:

HaHa! Stellar.;P
Just let me know when he's ready!....

 

[smof]

Haha, that fatty actually made me LOL. He looks so suspicious, like "What, me? I didn't do anything, no idea what you're talking about."

 

[penny'smom]

They're looking great Sparty! Tell fatty to lay off the siblings! LOL.

 

[spartybassoon]

Thanks! Yeah, he's gonna need to go on the Subway diet....

 

[DJThinK]

Is it just me or are baby tarantulas insanely cute? I mean like cute cute.... like cuter than the Puppy Bowl cute even. In fact there should be a 2nd instar bowl on T-Day. Oh man! Someone do a live web cam cast of a bunch of slings.

 

[spartybassoon]

Yeah, they're cute, but i like'em even better when they hit 2nd instar and are fuzzy little speedballs

 

[spartybassoon]

Getting there...

So close!! Any day now on a few of these suckers!

 

[Arachno_Shack]

Nice pics!

I know which one is mine!


lol..........



Tim

 

[Lucara]

Wow..lol they really do just flop over anywhere dont they.

 

[spartybassoon]

Yeah! One thing I noticed (which may be obvious to others) is that the closer they get to molting at this stage, the more mobile they become. When they first came out of the sac (at 1st instar) they were only capable of waving their legs, slowly. Now, I see a couple of them climbing up the coffee filter about a cm or so!! I'm not sure how I am going to corral them in the next few days, maybe I will just set them up communally. If I do that, do I just toss it a ton of pinheads, or would larger pre-killed crickets work as well?

Wow, feeding a communal batch might suck, since Avics tends to like to come out of the jar and not go back INTO it!!

 

[Arachno_Shack]

Yeah! One thing I noticed (which may be obvious to others) is that the closer they get to molting at this stage, the more mobile they become. When they first came out of the sac (at 1st instar) they were only capable of waving their legs, slowly. Now, I see a couple of them climbing up the coffee filter about a cm or so!! I'm not sure how I am going to corral them in the next few days, maybe I will just set them up communally. If I do that, do I just toss it a ton of pinheads, or would larger pre-killed crickets work as well?

Wow, feeding a communal batch might suck, since Avics tends to like to come out of the jar and not go back INTO it!!

IMO, a ton of pinheads would be better than having the lot scavenge over prekilled crix. To cover all bases, maybe you can toss in alot of pinheads, plus a few prekilled ones.

And yeah, you're right....feeding them is going to be fun!!!!!


Tim

 

[spartybassoon]

So Tim, can you give me a good time frame for feeding? I figure that I ought to wait about 5-7 days after they molt to toss food in, but i don't want to wait too long or else I lose half my spiders. Also, do I go ahead and toss in about 80 crix at once and not feed again for a week, or do I drop more crix in every few days to keep the hungry ones from eating each other?

Also, for anyone who has bred T's and kept the slings communal for a while, what size container would you use for roughly 75 slings?

 

[spartybassoon]

They started molting tonight

Finally! These little weeble wobbles are molting into 2nd instar slings! Please excuse the picture quality, it was taken through mesh - to keep them from escaping as they molt.

 

[funnylori]

So cute! They look amazing molting like that!

 

[spartybassoon]

Get Fuzzy

Can you see Bucky, Satchel, and Rob in the middle there?

 

[Arachno_Shack]

NICE!!!!!

Lookin' Good!:clap:


Pretty soon, eh? I love these guys!

 

[redknee_freak]

congrats bro, looks like your first sac is doing quitewell for you.

did you pull the sac or just let the mom do her job


how much will you be selling these for once they are ready