Do you plan on breeding T's?

shogun804

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Just some things i was wondering about when it comes to the breeding aspect of the T world :)

I was curious how many people on the boards currently plan on breeding T's?

What were your intentions when you first got into the hobby. Was it for breeding purposes, strictly to keep the species you like or did it change over time?

How many people have active breeding projects at the moment if so how many and with what species?

Do you plan on only breeding certain species, or are you breeding whatever you can get your hands on?

Are you breeding for experience if so why do you need the experience in breeding T's, is it to enjoy all aspects of the hobby or do you plan on becoming a major dealer?
 

Snipes

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i wasnt planning on breeding til i got a very nice looking B. boehmei male and i saw that brachys have a lot of babies and boehmeis sell at a pretty good price. So i think i am going to try and breed it. Im thinking that eventually im might try to mate some G. pulchras, A. versicolors, A. avics, and GBB possibly.
 

Schlyne

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I plan on breeding. When I first go into the hobby it was more for the variety of species out there. Some of the T's I have are going to mature out male, and I'd like to give it a try. I'm breeding more for the total experience of the hobby. There are some species that I'll keep, but I won't ever breed. I don't think I'll ever breed my chaco golden knee.

I have two active projects, but I don't think one of them will pan out. When my P. cambridgei matures, I'll try setting him up with the female I bought a while back. If I can slow down my male B. bohemei I"ll try mating him to my female. The trick is that I have to speed her up a tiny bit to catch up.

As for the pokies (all but 2 of them seem to be male, the little buggers), I'll probalby send them out on 50/50 loans...if I can pack them :eek:
 

Jaden

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shogun804 said:
Just some things i was wondering about when it comes to the breeding aspect of the T world :)

I was curious how many people on the boards currently plan on breeding T's?

What were your intentions when you first got into the hobby. Was it for breeding purposes, strictly to keep the species you like or did it change over time?

How many people have active breeding projects at the moment if so how many and with what species?

Do you plan on only breeding certain species, or are you breeding whatever you can get your hands on?

Are you breeding for experience if so why do you need the experience in breeding T's, is it to enjoy all aspects of the hobby or do you plan on becoming a major dealer?
I plan on breeding Ts. To be truthful I already have a few projects in the works with more on the way.

I got into the tarantula hobby off a whim. I wanted to buy my G/F something she always want and didn't have for christmas. That turned out to be three animals. 1) A 6 ft. boa. 2) An albino corn snake. and 3) A tarantula (Chilean Rose Hair a.k.a. G. rosea.). Once I got the tarantula and held it a few times I bought one for myself (A male also G. rosea.). I figured what the heck get a male and female breed them maybe one day I'll have stock of my own for the pet shop I've dreamed of.

As I stated I have breeding projects. I've mated three G. rosea females, plan on mating two A. seemanni later this year, have mated one P. murinus (She molted soon after.) and plan to mate her again this year, plan to mate at least one B. albopilosum later this year, going to try B. vegans or B. angustum (Which ever one I have at this moment.), and I also plan to try my hand at G. aureostriata later this year (Got a mature female waiting on the male I got to mature.). If I get any other mature adults during the year I might attempt to breed them as well.

I plan to only breed NW species (Mostly North American.) but will breed any species from the new world. Only species outside the NW I plan to breed is P. murinus. As i said one day these Ts are going to be stock in my very own pet shop.

Yeah I'm breeding for experience. I need it so I can produce stock of my own pet shop (Reptile and Invertabrate. No dogs, cats, or other furry things. Only furry things sold in my shop are for food.). I also want to experience every aspect of the hobby. I plan to become one of the major Ts dealers in Indianapolis area (Maybe even in the state one day. Getting Ts around Indianapolis sucks right now. You can only get G. rosea, P. murinus, and from time to time G. aureostriata. If I have my way you'll be able to buy almost any NW T here.).

Boy I'm long winded aren't I.
 

aaronrefalo

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yes i plan to breed tarantulas in future months hopefully...i already tried to breed P.regalis with no success as the female moulted in a 5 weeks while the male remained eaten.... :(

At the begining of the hobby i couldnt possible have in mind to breed them couse i didnt yet knew nothing about them....(off topic:altough when 3 months ago a brought a male ball python immediatly i intended to bring a female for breeding)...so i changed over a period that i learned more about tarantulas...

i dont have active breedings...im just waithing my B.smithi male to mature and a female B.smithi which is smaller but hopefully she will be the right size...

In future this year i want/have to buy a mature female P.regalis or any other pokie and try to find a male as mine had been eaten

im breeding for both experience in breeding T's and to enjoy all aspects of the hobby i dont plan on becoming a major dealer but selling slings and bigger tarantulas to local petstores would surly happen.....for selling taranrulas out to other countries would be a decision on the cercumstances of the time....

i realy enjoyed your thread...cheers :D

Aaron
 

becca81

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I didn't get into the hobby for breeding purposes and I originally never intended to breed anything until I started reading more about it and thought about how many WC specimens there are being imported on a regular basis and how interesting it would be to actually watch the entire process.

I've only paired one of my females so far and she molted out. I plan on pairing two more in the near future and my main goal right now is to gain some experience with breeding so that I can be more sucessful with it in the future. The way I see it - the more CB spiders in the hobby, the less demand for WC specimens.
 

Huk7

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I've been keeping T's for more years than I care to admit!!!

I started at 8 years old and had grown up around reptiles as my parents kept them. I got very interested in spiders and it developed from there.

Initially it was just my interest that spurred me on and I have kept many different species.

Over the years I then naturally moved into breeding them and have been fairly successful with a number of different species.

However, over the last couple of years, I've concentrated on the 'biggies', I have bred my blondi this year and 'fingers crossed' should have an eggsac within the next month or so from her. I also have a couple of young T.apohpysis, these are a totally new species for me, but I do fully intend to have a go at breeding them when they mature. But for now I am happy to sit back and watch them grow.
 

Becca

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I do intend on breeding tarantulas eventually, I'm currently buying a few spiderlings which I'm going to raise, mainly arboreals. I then hope to eventually get some breeding projects going. I will probably stick to species that I'm more familiar with to start off with, mainly Brachypelma sp. I'm currently looking to get a Brachypelma albopilosum to start off my first breeding project and I'm just waiting for my male B.smithi to mature so I can breed him with my female and loan him out :eek:
I have paired A.metallica before, but the female ate the eggsac within hours of laying it and then she died shortly after, so that didn't really go to plan!
 

Beccas_824

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You know, breeding has never really interested me, and I'm not sure why. i think having hundreds of slings that all need to be housed individually turned me off to breeding.
I will of course look into sending out any mature males I end up having on breeding loans ( I have alot of unsexed slings and juvies' so some of them are more-than-likely gonna be males) but I really don't have any desire to do bred.
 

Varden

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I initially got my first T with the intent of diminishing my fear of them, and now yes, I do plan to breed, but not right away. The T's that I most want to breed are those that are rare in the hobby or difficult (and yes, I know they are rare and difficult for a reason) but I think the more they are captive bred, then the less of them will be pulled from the wild. And to me that's very important. Particularly since I believe that many of the species we enjoy in the hobby today will go by way of the Brachy and become heavily regulated or cease to be imported at all.
 

aaronrefalo

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Beccas_824 said:
You know, breeding has never really interested me, and I'm not sure why. i think having hundreds of slings that all need to be housed individually turned me off to breeding.
I will of course look into sending out any mature males I end up having on breeding loans ( I have alot of unsexed slings and juvies' so some of them are more-than-likely gonna be males) but I really don't have any desire to do bred.
interesting....
 

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I just recently got into the hobby, but I would like to eventually start to breed some of my Ts once my collection gets a little larger and more experience.
 

shogun804

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some interesting responses so far, Becca you brought a good point with the wild caught specimens being imported, is it possible that future breeding of T's would increase the numbers in the hobby so much that importing would stop? of course i guess that question is all speculation :rolleyes: it is nice to see all the people that are thinking of or in the process of breeding T's :clap:

i really wish i could get some projects going, but so far nothing has gotten off to a good start, i did plan on breeding P irminia a month or so ago, i had everything set up, the male was shipped out to me but unfortunatley arrived DOA so that was not a good day, ever since then i cant say i lost interest but at the moment i think im just going to wait :(
 

BigMarkD

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I am fairly new to the T world, last thirty years spent raising and breeding everything from fish to macaws to bobcats to pythons. I want to learn all I can about these fantastic creatures and raising to maturity and producing offspring is the way to go. As with past experiences, the babies usually end up traded for more species or adults. In the short months since moving into T's, suddenly have 17 in my care. Have been involved with sales due to too many young of different species. Definately believe we need to move forward to stop the need for wild collecting and even more, stop WILD POACHING of already protected species. Yes I also believe T's aren't far from tough import export laws due to their rise in popularity.Now you know the rest of the story.
Mark D.
New Orleans
 

greenbay1

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I've bred reptiles for years- pythons, boids, garter color morphs and corn color morphs. I exited reptiles after about 25 years to concentrate on tarantulas. I love the fact that so little is really known about them. I only purchase the species that I'm working on breeding projects with. I think it is important to work with different blood lines and get them established through captive breeding. You never know when the exporting will stop. I believe it would be wise for those truly interested in tarantulas to get interested in breeding them. It will preserve them for others and it will enhance our knowledge of them.
 
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