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I want to dedicate this post to share my most recent on-going continuous journey of keeping tarantulas, and how my perspective changed about matured male tarantulas.
A little note about myself is, I am the type of the person who goes for a smallest sling, and enjoy the time taking for it to grow in size while watching, observing it.
On 04/01/2018, I purchased Theraphosa blondi from local importer / breeder, with such a high hope, this tarantula may turns out to a female, as always.
But, nope. I ended up with the matured male Theraphosa blondi in the end. In fact, it was my first ever matured male. This gave me four options to choose from:
On 01/30/2021, I traded my matured male Theraphosa blondi with an unsexed Poecilotheria rufilata.
It was quite the remarkable experience to keep this species as I was watching it grow.
On 08/12/2022, it turned out to be a matured male, yet again.
I felt like, I could do this all day. It was another time to choose how to go about it with this matured one. For this time around, I decided to try a breeding loan.
I messaged several users on Arachnoboards, who are keeping Poecilotheria rufilata matured female.
On 08/29/2022, I sent my matured male Poecilotheria rufilata to another user with the matured female Poecilotheria rufilata, with the term:
It did arrive safe and sound, and also had a successful mating.
On 01/30/2023, the egg sac was pulled, and 03/09/2023, many turned into second insta slings.
On 04/06/2023, I received two very healthy Poecilotheria rufilata slings and successfully rehoused.
This five years worth of tarantula keeping journey was, and is still very overwhelming joy to me.
Now, I will have another fun time raising these two slings, with hoping one turns out to be a female, and even if not, I would still be very excited to unveil my unknown future.
A little note about myself is, I am the type of the person who goes for a smallest sling, and enjoy the time taking for it to grow in size while watching, observing it.
On 04/01/2018, I purchased Theraphosa blondi from local importer / breeder, with such a high hope, this tarantula may turns out to a female, as always.
But, nope. I ended up with the matured male Theraphosa blondi in the end. In fact, it was my first ever matured male. This gave me four options to choose from:
- Keep this matured male tarantula till it dies
- Sell / trade it
- Get a matured female, and try to breed
- Send it away for a breeding loan
On 01/30/2021, I traded my matured male Theraphosa blondi with an unsexed Poecilotheria rufilata.
It was quite the remarkable experience to keep this species as I was watching it grow.
On 08/12/2022, it turned out to be a matured male, yet again.
I felt like, I could do this all day. It was another time to choose how to go about it with this matured one. For this time around, I decided to try a breeding loan.
I messaged several users on Arachnoboards, who are keeping Poecilotheria rufilata matured female.
On 08/29/2022, I sent my matured male Poecilotheria rufilata to another user with the matured female Poecilotheria rufilata, with the term:
- I send my male for a free
- If successful, all I want is a couple of slings back
It did arrive safe and sound, and also had a successful mating.
On 01/30/2023, the egg sac was pulled, and 03/09/2023, many turned into second insta slings.
On 04/06/2023, I received two very healthy Poecilotheria rufilata slings and successfully rehoused.
This five years worth of tarantula keeping journey was, and is still very overwhelming joy to me.
Now, I will have another fun time raising these two slings, with hoping one turns out to be a female, and even if not, I would still be very excited to unveil my unknown future.
what a wonderful adventure you’ve gone through for those slings I really hope you end up with a female!
