Breeding Ts for begginers

[yaabritish]

Any ideas on what species of tarantula are good starter species for breeding/mating would be looking to breed/mate less defensive more layed back species that are easy to breed and are terrestrial species ...it would be my first time breeding tarantulas

 

[Pmurinushmacla]

I would guess the good starter species for regular keeping are also the best for breeding. Just a guess tho, never attempted to breed a t before, I would, but I have no idea how I'd get rid of most of the babies.

 

[yaabritish]

ide be planning on giving the baby’s away for free to any keepers interested but they would have to just pay postage or collect in person and ide be planning on keeping around 5 spiderlings for myself after that maybe advance to different species maybe

 

[8 legged]

Brachypelmas

 

[Tarantuland]

I’m newer to breeding myself, I think I’ve paired 10-12 so far but just pulled my first sac. The first thing I paired was T vagans but after like 7 months my female molted out so I’m gonna try her with another male I just got. The first thing I got to drop a sac was Avicularia M6. I have paired 4 Avicularia M1s but none have dropped yet, and the m6 was by far the easiest to pair. I’ve heard versicolors are easy too.
My main reason for breeding Avicularia is relatively smaller clutch size, and because so many in the hobby are wild caught. If Guyana stops exporting, they won’t be in pet stores and $15 adults at reptile shows anymore. They grow faster than those Chilean species, but I’m trying to stay ahead of the curve, and I like avics. They are stubborn though and don’t wanna move when you need them to.

I paired C marshalli, very quick and easy pairing but my female passed away before laying. I have been told by many people that OBTs are among the easiest.

 

[yaabritish]

OBT pairing sounds stressful big attitude in them ginger ninjas

 

[jrh3]

N. Incei and P. Irminia are probably the easiest I have ever bred.

 

[viper69]

Hatch out H. chilensis

I would guess the good starter species for regular keeping are also the best for breeding.

Wrong

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

OBT pairing sounds stressful big attitude in them ginger ninjas

You think it sounds stressful to YOU?! Think about how the male OBT must feel!

"Yannoe what baby....I've been thinking. I'm a mature male, 'tis true, but I'm not THAT mature yet, so I... uh... I don't think I'm ready for having a family. Yeah, that's it! Totally immature in that respect, so I'd better wait! Your s'lings deserve better than that! Seeya!

 

[Liquifin]

Start with the hobby staple genuses if you're not too sure on where you want to start. Such as Grammostolas, Brachypelmas, etc.

I paired C marshalli, very quick and easy pairing but my female passed away before laying. I have been told by many people that OBTs are among the easiest.

I could use a C. marshalli male myself for my four females... Obt can or can't be easy to breed, but it depends on the female individual. Most of the time, they're cooperative in my experience.

 

[yaabritish]

You think it sounds stressful to YOU?! Think about how the male OBT must feel!

"Yannoe what baby....I've been thinking. I'm a mature male, 'tis true, but I'm not THAT mature yet, so I... uh... I don't think I'm ready for having a family. Yeah, that's it! Totally immature in that respect, so I'd better wait! Your s'lings deserve better than that! Seeya!

There’s always one isn’t there

 

[Tarantuland]

Start with the hobby staple genuses if you're not too sure on where you want to start. Such as Grammostolas, Brachypelmas, etc.


I could use a C. marshalli male myself for my four females... Obt can or can't be easy to breed, but it depends on the female individual. Most of the time, they're cooperative in my experience.

This male marshalli has two more girlfriends lined up with another friend of mine. If he survives though I can reach out to you.

 

[BoyFromLA]

Hatch out H. chilensis

This.

 

[Pmurinushmacla]

Hatch out H. chilensis




Wrong

Care to extrapolate? Simply saying wrong doesnt prove your point, and it doesn't help clear up any confusion. It just makes you look pretentious.

To clarify, the species I was referring to were those in the grammastola, brachy, and possibly avic genus.

 

[me and my Ts]

To clarify, the species I was referring to were those in the grammastola, brachy, and possibly avic genus

I’ve heard Grammastolas are very hard to breed

 

[Pmurinushmacla]

I’ve heard Grammastolas are very hard to breed

Interesting considering their heavy prevalence in the hobby. Thanks for some actual info tho.

 

[antinous]

People already chimed in on what to breed, but I’ll add this. Make sure there is a market for what you’re breeding. T. vagans, T. albopilosum, L. parahybana, etc. are very very common in the hobby and unless you want to sit on hundreds of slings while you try and find someone who will take them, then I’d choose something else.

 

[cold blood]

When you start breeding, you want certain things. You want a species that is likely to pair without aggression, that will pair rather quickly, that tend to be good mothers and you should breed a species that doesn't give monstrous sacs and that are relatively easy to sell.

IMO the best species to learn breeding with is hands down A. avic...other members of the genus work as well.

They pair readily, they are generally docile and easy to deal with, they are good moms, they have sac sizes ranging from 50-maybe 130 and while inexpensive, are pretty easy to sell.

another metallica pairing

• cold blood
• Sep 26, 2018
• 11
• avicularia avicularia metallica mating metallic pinktoe tarantula metallica whitetoe tarantula

I think he finally got the job done

 

[viper69]

Care to extrapolate? Simply saying wrong doesnt prove your point, and it doesn't help clear up any confusion. It just makes you look pretentious.

To clarify, the species I was referring to were those in the grammastola, brachy, and possibly avic genus.

Happy to clarify. I often leave short answers in hopes that people will look up the information on their own, I feel that method helps them retain the information better than passively learning it from another person- exceptions always. You can call it pretentious or any other poor assumption, but my type of response is not meant to be that, but whatever you call it is up to you.

Below is you in bold

"I would guess the good starter species for regular keeping are also the best for breeding."

Not all good beginner species are easy to breed. H. chilensis is one - at least according to one of the first people to breed them in North America (maybe the first) I spoke with. He told me the females tend to be quite aggressive towards males. Hard to believe given how docile they are, but in his experience, that's what he observed. G. pulchra is another great species to start with, but not so easy to breed from what I gathered at one point. GBBs also are not easy to breed (not all consider them starter species due to speed, sometimes I don't, sometimes I do depending on the person, primarily because like OBTs, they are tough as nails re husbandry errors.

 

[coolnweird]

Your other post says you only have 5 juvies and 2 slings, personal I would wait a bit longer before breeding. Raise up what you have and wait until you find a species you're really passionate about, because if you can't find homes for them you'll be dealing with a LOT of babies. That's just my 2¢ as someone who hopes to breed in the future but also doesn't want to have 100s of unwanted slings on my hands