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My AF L. klugi “Wanda” finally ate last night after fasting for 5 months. She last ate a large dubia in mid-July. She refused her next feeding in early August. I’ve tried feeding her a large dubia roach once a month since then and she’s refused to eat them, though she did express some interest (dragging the roach with her feet, walking over to it and hold it down with her feed or her chelicerae). Last night, I fed her a VERY LARGE female dubia, and she quickly snatched it up and ate it. This morning, she finished off the aborted dubia fetus so I guess she was a bit hungry.
When Wanda stopped eating, I presumed that she was just going into pre-molt. I’ve had her since last September and her only molt with me was in October 2016, and that she was just molting a bit early. But August, September, OCTOBER, and November came and went and still she didn’t molt. She developed a bald patch, but it never turned dark. I knew she was doing reasonably fine since she regularly went to the water dish toilet.
I wasn’t all that upset about all this except I had been considering breeding her. I have a mature male klugi that I planned to pair with her after she was done with molting. He matured in late July. But she kept not molting, and before she ate, I had basically accepted that he wouldn’t be able to fulfill his destiny. But now she is back to eating again, and I’m not sure what to do. I am considering breeding them this week, now that I know she isn’t going to molt anytime soon. She could molt two months from now, but I don’t think Pietro will be viable in three months time when she would be ready at the earliest. Maybe she isn’t going to molt until next fall.
So I guess my questions are these: should I still go ahead with a breeding attempt? She is now on month 14 since her last molt but now that she is eating again, I’m not sure she is going to molt anytime soon. Is he even still viable? He matured 5 months ago and he isn’t showing as much interest in food as he did even two weeks ago. Is she even interested in mating? One of my theories about her fast was that she was interested in sex, and she was trying to hold her fire in fear that what she was sensing was a mate and not food. The two of them used to be on the same shelving unit and they did know about each other (I caught Wanda tapping numerous times). They are now in separate rooms.
This would be my first try at breeding tarantulas. If you guys think it is a terrible idea, I understand. I have a juvenile male klugi that should mature in the next year if this isn’t successful or if doing this with Pietro right now is a bad idea.
When Wanda stopped eating, I presumed that she was just going into pre-molt. I’ve had her since last September and her only molt with me was in October 2016, and that she was just molting a bit early. But August, September, OCTOBER, and November came and went and still she didn’t molt. She developed a bald patch, but it never turned dark. I knew she was doing reasonably fine since she regularly went to the water dish toilet.
I wasn’t all that upset about all this except I had been considering breeding her. I have a mature male klugi that I planned to pair with her after she was done with molting. He matured in late July. But she kept not molting, and before she ate, I had basically accepted that he wouldn’t be able to fulfill his destiny. But now she is back to eating again, and I’m not sure what to do. I am considering breeding them this week, now that I know she isn’t going to molt anytime soon. She could molt two months from now, but I don’t think Pietro will be viable in three months time when she would be ready at the earliest. Maybe she isn’t going to molt until next fall.
So I guess my questions are these: should I still go ahead with a breeding attempt? She is now on month 14 since her last molt but now that she is eating again, I’m not sure she is going to molt anytime soon. Is he even still viable? He matured 5 months ago and he isn’t showing as much interest in food as he did even two weeks ago. Is she even interested in mating? One of my theories about her fast was that she was interested in sex, and she was trying to hold her fire in fear that what she was sensing was a mate and not food. The two of them used to be on the same shelving unit and they did know about each other (I caught Wanda tapping numerous times). They are now in separate rooms.
This would be my first try at breeding tarantulas. If you guys think it is a terrible idea, I understand. I have a juvenile male klugi that should mature in the next year if this isn’t successful or if doing this with Pietro right now is a bad idea.
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