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There has been lots of research on the m.balfouri and them being communal look into tom morans communal or the tarantula collective https://youtube.com/shorts/ByCVrMQNTdo?si=FqOPn8bHu8UCTjkt They are even sold communals

There are no communal species

Yes I know I need more substrate as posted in my first post was just wondering what people's thoughts were on the decor the m.balfouri are a communal speices and have had no issue with them

Don’t do communal unless you want them to eat each other Also you need A LOT more sub

I am wondering what everyone's thought are about putting this in my m.balfouri communal it will be sitting on the bottom of enclosure and I will be adding substrate around it and yes I know I need more substrate but wanna get opinions on having the castle in the tank?

I was thinking of adding this to my m.balfouri communal just wondering what everyone's thoughts on it is? I'll have to sitting on the bottom of the tank then adding substrate all around it and yes I am adding more substrate to the whole thing

I agree, I always see people put skulls in T enclosures and I don’t understand why, I’d rather put a Makka Pakka figiure or a spongebob figiure if I was putting an ornament in. I don’t see the appeal in putting graves, skulls etc in T enclosures. I think they do it to “look tough”, because Ts...

...to be a 3.5 to 4 inch T in a 10 gallon. Has a skull, ceramic pumpkins with some grave stones. Not to mention an incredibly long distance from sub to the top, death trap. I don't know had to vent. Oh yeah can't forget the M. balfouri communal with only two of them and two skulls, unbelievable.

...by a scientist. You'll see some obvious poisoning mentioned...flea treatment, pesticides...there is a video that does look like DKS but in a communal, how does only one T get exposed, and again, dry husbandry...but these erratic movements are more indicative of it not being a husbandry issue...

A couple weeks depending on how warm and hungry they are. Yes

...I ask how long does it take on average for their numbers to decrease to 15 individuals ? Also can I ask can the spiderlings molt in the "communal enclousure" (the eggsack enclousure) or not ? Also Update : I've separated the eggsacks of my Steatoda triangulosa from the mother yesterday, it...

Has she webbed herself in? What is her enclosure like? These are easy to breed. Its more about your after care. How old was female? How fat was she? You can still provide food for female. But if she os full, and fetile, they tend to eat less. If your prekilled is making its way then its...

That's how bought my balfouri. I was happy to get a good deal on a communal. I saved a bunch of money then ended spending even more on tanks for each one of them. Apparently math isn't my skill set. And luckily it's not the wife's either, I now a bunch of balfouri enclosures haha.

No it's not communal. Males sperm web was about 10 days old max. She is accepting the food even now. No, they are not

You can always try to pair more than once. After a few pairings, keep feeding her and just wait until she drops. Are they communal?

...insertion. Subsequent attempts you run the risk of someone getting eaten. It isn't always the male to be sacrificed... You aren't doing a communal are you? Did you see the male make a fresh sperm web before pairing? Was she refusing food before you paired? Considering these guys breed...

4' = 4 feet? It's more like half this size. I don't know. The breeder had multible eggsacs in his communal. I managed to catch every male befor e could mate with a female. But the last one was stobern. Never wanderet and as soon as i opend the enclosure o catch him, he was gone. I will. My...

So you have 3 AFs and one male, plus slings/juveniles now. In what appears to be a 4' wide x 3' deep x 2' (+/-) high enclosure. That seems adequate space for 3 adults Females , and a breeder male (lucky him) So you line bred them? Sibling to sibling? Keep me posted on what happens with all the...

...flick the youngsters away, wich looks really hillarious. But i never saw any sign of aggression. What i think, is important for a balfouri communal enclosure is: enough hiding space. And they love to dig. So provide them with alot of digging space. Remember my picture from the enclosure...

...dirt (so do not bother with using real plants in the enclosure, as they will just kill the plants with web). Supposedly H. villosella is communal, but even as siblings they started to threat pose instantly so I keep them seperate. When rehousing them into larger enclosures, I've found the...