Theraphosa blondi egg sac!!

[MaximusMeridus]

To my surprise my female T.blondi(yes the real one!) laid an egg sac in the last few weeks.. I have a jungle like tank with a deep burrow so hardly see her.

I mated her a few months ago but didn’t think much of it as male wasn’t that fresh but kept him very cold until female was mature.

Now... take the eggsac away from her or let her keep it...is the question.

If I take it I’ll need an incubator and one which turns ideally.

Any ideas?

 

[Thistles]

Congratulations and nice work! Leave it with her for a little while, then pull it imo. You don't want to pull it too early and mess something up, but you also don't want her to eat it or for it to get moldy or whatever. @louise f has some videos with good incubators that work for her. You can also line a container with wet paper towel, then another container with a dry coffee filter, and put the coffee filter container into the wet container... I'm not explaining this well. Anyway, great work and look up Louise's vids. Also she's cute, so there's another reason to watch her vids.

 

[MaximusMeridus]

Great! Thanks for the advice I shall have a good think about it really caught me unprepared!

 

[cold blood]

laid an egg sac in the last few weeks

Well that's a lot of time to be unsure of. Generally people take sacs away at 21-35 days dpending on the species. My guess is that if this sac was layed 3 weeks or more, you would at the very least have EWLs by now, if not 1i....which just need to be incubated...I use the same system @Thistles mentioned. I second the vids made by @louise f .

You would only need to rotate things if you took it early.

 

[MetalMan2004]

I have a piggyback wuestion. When do you stop needing to rotate? Is it at the ewls stage or 1i? Is it different for different species?

 

[jaycied]

I believe rotation is just to keep the undeveloped eggs from sticking to each other. So probably just until ewl

 

[MaximusMeridus]

Latest photos attached from underground burrow - now great I know.

 

[MaximusMeridus]

If I have no idea when she laid the eggs...could be days or weeks, any advice on how I could tell whether EWL / when I should pull the eggsac? Naturally it's a rather precious one being genuine T.blondi

 

[atraxrobustus]

Just having a T. Blondie, I think is a feat in and of itself.

 

[MetalMan2004]

I’ll take a couple of your slings when their ready!

 

[MaximusMeridus]

Latest photo..

 

[MaximusMeridus]

Ok it's been certainly 3 weeks since she laid the eggsac. She is guarding Worth taking away from female to incubate now? @Thistles @cold blood @louise f

She's been quite protective towering over eggsac undisturbed so all looks healthy

 

[Thistles]

If you're confident that you made your incubator well and you'll be able to rotate the sac for another week or however long, go for it.

 

[cold blood]

id take it sometime this week. I would open it and put the eggs/EWLs in the incubator

 

[Anoplogaster]

Let us know when you’re ready to sell some slings. I’m interested

 

[Thistles]

I think OP is in the UK. Sorry, my fellow Americans.

 

[BoyFromLA]

I think OP is in the UK. Sorry, my fellow Americans.

 

[Mike Klessens]

I think OP is in the UK. Sorry, my fellow Americans.

This might be the worst news I've heard all day.

 

[BoyFromLA]

This might be the worst news I've heard all day.

I will brighten your day up a bit then.

 

[MetalMan2004]

For no reason at all I added myself to the email list.