Stromatopelma calceatum pairing video

Haksilence · Sep 9, 2016

viper69 said:
Quite true, and the Pamphobeteus sp. platyomma aka the Brazilian Pink Bloom is one of the few examples where the MM is often much more brilliant in color than the female. Funny how only a few species turned out that way.

arent the males of the Xenesthis genus the colorful ones as well?

viper69 · Sep 9, 2016

Haksilence said:
arent the males of the Xenesthis genus the colorful ones as well?

Yes, if I recall correctly. But across all known T species, the females are typically more brilliantly colored as you know. Why only some males are more brilliant (let alone any at all) than females will remain a mystery.

Haksilence · Sep 10, 2016

viper69 said:
Yes, if I recall correctly. But across all known T species, the females are typically more brilliantly colored as you know. Why only some males are more brilliant (let alone any at all) than females will remain a mystery.

It's a fascinating and beautiful world we live in

cold blood · Sep 10, 2016

Haksilence said:
arent the males of the Xenesthis genus the colorful ones as well?

No, females are gorgeous as well.

Chris LXXIX · Sep 10, 2016

cold blood said:
No, females are gorgeous as well.

Yeah, the only not so gorgeous thing is dat price

Thistles · Sep 10, 2016

MM Theraphosa apophysis too!

Poor Louise. We're all jumping on this lol.

Haksilence · Sep 10, 2016

Thistles said:
MM Theraphosa apophysis too!

Poor Louise. We're all jumping on this lol.

all MM are beautiful in their own way, are you guys really acting like this only one day after MM appreciation day? you all make me sick

Chris LXXIX · Sep 10, 2016

Haksilence said:
all MM are beautiful in their own way

Pelinobius muticus males actually sucks

but at least they are extremely important for the Goddess continuity :-s

mistertim · Sep 10, 2016

Chris LXXIX said:
Pelinobius muticus males actually sucks but at least they are extremely important for the Goddess continuity :-s

viper69 · Sep 10, 2016

Haksilence said:
all MM are beautiful in their own way

It's all subjective. For me that is not the case at all. MM A. sp. amazonica, P. irminia and especially Ov males are all ugly compared to the female.

Haksilence · Oct 15, 2016

Update:
Pairing #1 (featured in video) was successful.

Pairing #2 about 2 weeks later was unsuccessful. Male eager but no response from female. I'm taking this as a good sign that she may be becoming gravid

Pairing #3 is right now. But when fishing the male out, for a third time he decided that he'd rather not go into the females, but rather JUMP avic style onto me and run up my arm into my shirt AGAIN. That's 3 pairings with 3 times the male has decided I was his favorite tree. That's about a 1000x times more contact I want with S calc so I had to get him off and then chase him around the room for 20 minutes to finally get him in a catch cup. The whole catch cup with him went into the females enclosure and that's how it's staying until they are finished or I take him out. This will be the very last attempt because I'm simply pressing my luck with getting bit by this male. So right now they are having some unsupervised alone time while I go downstairs and grab food and a beer and wait for the adrenaline to dye down.

Octagon · Oct 15, 2016

Haksilence said:
Update:
Pairing #1 (featured in video) was successful.

Pairing #2 about 2 weeks later was unsuccessful. Male eager but no response from female. I'm taking this as a good sign that she may be becoming gravid

Pairing #3 is right now. But when fishing the male out, for a third time he decided that he'd rather not go into the females, but rather JUMP avic style onto me and run up my arm into my shirt AGAIN. That's 3 pairings with 3 times the male has decided I was his favorite tree. That's about a 1000x times more contact I want with S calc so I had to get him off and then chase him around the room for 20 minutes to finally get him in a catch cup. The whole catch cup with him went into the females enclosure and that's how it's staying until they are finished or I take him out. This will be the very last attempt because I'm simply pressing my luck with getting bit by this male. So right now they are having some unsupervised alone time while I go downstairs and grab food and a beer and wait for the adrenaline to dye down.

The poor guy is so scared of what he has to do that he runs to hide out in your shirt!

Andrea82 · Oct 16, 2016

I have no experience whatsoever with pairing/breeding, or with S.calceatum, but why put the male again with the female if first attempt was successful? At each attempt either you or the spider is at risk of getting bitten, which with this species doesn't seem like a walk in the park

Toxoderidae · Oct 16, 2016

oh jesus I got a 4'' female S. calceatum yesterday, you're saying my female will act like this? She's so chill, went straight to her new home and just went "leave me alone so I can plan ways to kill you"

Andrea82 · Oct 16, 2016

Toxoderidae said:
oh jesus I got a 4'' female S. calceatum yesterday, you're saying my female will act like this? She's so chill, went straight to her new home and just went "leave me alone so I can plan ways to kill you"

Nah, it is just his male that is a scaredy cat

Haksilence · Oct 16, 2016

Toxoderidae said:
oh jesus I got a 4'' female S. calceatum yesterday, you're saying my female will act like this? She's so chill, went straight to her new home and just went "leave me alone so I can plan ways to kill you"

Just like with any species, when they are hidden and comfortable they juat get defensive, but once you take them away from that security they freak the hell out, this species is just very very fast so when they freak out there is no telling where they will end up.

And to the other person who asked, I paired them multiple times because the first time I had not yet personally witnessed him making a sperm web, since then I've confirmed that he has. And since there is no telling how long he will last it's a race against the clock to get a good pairing while he's charged that will take. I can't exactly afford to wait 3 months to see if she drops a sac to see if the insertion took, because by that point he will likely be on his way out and too weak to get another good pairing. So the multiple pairings are to ensure that she actually becomes gravid while the male is capable of taking her on.

Haksilence · Oct 17, 2016

Welp, looks like they are going to have to go at it at least one more time.

She molted unexpectedly, so I'm gonna take the next two weeks to fatten her up and let the male relax and take another shot at them in november

Andrea82 · Oct 17, 2016

Haksilence said:
Welp, looks like they are going to have to go at it at least one more time. View attachment 222726
She molted unexpectedly, so I'm gonna take the next two weeks to fatten her up and let the male relax and take another shot at them in november

Poor you. Better try it without a shirt.
(You could do the video without shirt?

)

WeightedAbyss75 · Oct 17, 2016

Andrea82 said:
Poor you. Better try it without a shirt.
(You could do the video without shirt? )

If he did that, there would be only one option left... and nobody wants to see the second option go badly

Haksilence · Oct 17, 2016

WeightedAbyss75 said:
If he did that, there would be only one option left... and nobody wants to see the second option go badly

Knowing this male, and my luck, I'm not going to risk it.

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