Always wanted to do this...

[tarcan]

OK, my most useless thread ever!

Anyone remember that picture of a Cyriocosmus leetzi couple mating on the hand of someone? Always though that was a cool picture...

Was mating some C. elegans tonight (what's new) and just thought "why not?"

I do not usually handle my Ts... unless they are mating! LOL

Anyhow, here are a few pictures... goes to show that nothing disturbs those guys while they are at it, which is pretty different then most of the other T species I have mated so far.

Martin

 

[Eclipse]

haha! wow! that's so cool! Are they really that small!?

 

[Rochelle]

That is freakin' incredible...what an experience!
Thanks for sharing! :clap:

 

[lychas]

wow, my dream t, these guys are minute, whats their legspan in cm?

 

[jon.rothweiler]

thats something you dont see every day. job well done.

 

[von_z]

Wow, I didn't know they made T's that tiny!

 

[Lorgakor]

Great pics Martin! These guys are so cute! How long did they mate for? I hear these guys can take a long time at it?

 

[Talkenlate04]

That is awesome! Great pics! :clap:

 

[tarcan]

Thanks everyone

They are about 2.5 cm in legspan I would say.

They can normally mate up to about 3 hours or more sometimes, obviously I just kept them for a few minutes in my hands...

I had originally scopped them with a medicine cup to place them on my hand. After the pictures, I actually dropped them:8o and they fell on my boxers (I was seated)... they continued mating there... then I just picked them up in my hands and placed them back in the container, and they kept mating, they might be still at it right now!

Take care

Martin

 

[Frédérick]

That is so cool Martin! it's a pic that explains why it's one of your favorite specie just gotta love them!

 

[kitty_b]

I had originally scopped them with a medicine cup to place them on my hand. After the pictures, I actually dropped them:8o and they fell on my boxers (I was seated)... they continued mating there... then I just picked them up in my hands and placed them back in the container, and they kept mating, they might be still at it right now!

that's quite a lap dance!

 

[pedro041484]

one of the cutest things ive seen

 

[AlainL]

Hi Martin,

You told me Cyriocosmus are not nervous when mating but I didn't think they where that calm

Great pics man:clap:

 

[Hedorah99]

I hope you washed your hands afterwards.

 

[Nerri1029]

Wow awesome..

Hmmm maybe I'll try it with P. murinus ??

yeah..

:worship: :worship:

hoping to make a trip north soon.

 

[Frédérick]

are they very productive in terms of offsprings/numbers of eggsack? since they mate that long I'm assuming they can produce a good amount of slings or maybe multiple eggsacks from one mating. :?

 

[strongboy4]

...what a pervert :}

Hey Martin, greetings from Austria!

Dietmar

 

[fartkowski]

Those are awsome pictures Martin
If this is successful maybe you could try mating blondi's this way
Instead of captive bred you could put hand mated on your list.
hahahaha

 

[smof]

Wow, I knew these guys were small but not THAT small. Great pics

 

[syndicate]

haha very cool Martin!