Exoskelos
Arachnosquire
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- Sep 15, 2017
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So, I've been busy these past few weeks securing enough substrate for hungry pedelings. A couple weeks ago, noticed that my large narceus and one of the smaller ones were engaged in courtship behavior. I found it surprising, as I thought I only had females. Some of the immatures were harder to sex though, might have missed one too. Anyway, I've got them moved into a large Sterilite tub, with 4-5 inches of finely pulped wood and coir. Couldn't allow myself to let them overpopulate, already was running risk of crowding the ten gallon.
Anyway, enough of my disconnected banter. Here are some photos.
This one was when they were in the ten gallon, its what spurred me to rehouse the lot of them. I suspect I will have quite a few of this dark color morph soon.
Moved them all, noticed that the pedelings are developing at different rates, some are almost to subadult stage, but the majority are still very small. I wonder if it might be relative to the times they were laid, or perhaps varying food quality in different areas of the enclosure.
Here's the matriarch of the colony, surveying new kingdom for her subjects. She'll probably lay eggs around August, hopefully the pedelings from last year will reach a decent size, least enough to tell the broods apart.
General overview of the new enclosure. Its about 4 times the area of the ten gallon tank I had them in, plenty of room for them to stretch out. I had to wait a few weeks before moving them, they were in a mass molt, otherwise I would have done this a month ago.
Anyway, enough of my disconnected banter. Here are some photos.
This one was when they were in the ten gallon, its what spurred me to rehouse the lot of them. I suspect I will have quite a few of this dark color morph soon.
Moved them all, noticed that the pedelings are developing at different rates, some are almost to subadult stage, but the majority are still very small. I wonder if it might be relative to the times they were laid, or perhaps varying food quality in different areas of the enclosure.
Here's the matriarch of the colony, surveying new kingdom for her subjects. She'll probably lay eggs around August, hopefully the pedelings from last year will reach a decent size, least enough to tell the broods apart.
General overview of the new enclosure. Its about 4 times the area of the ten gallon tank I had them in, plenty of room for them to stretch out. I had to wait a few weeks before moving them, they were in a mass molt, otherwise I would have done this a month ago.