eggs with legs eating eggs

[yetkin]

i searched this but couldnt find a answer. I just oppened a P.regalis eggsac put them in a incubator but some of the eggs with legs are eating i guess failed eggs. Should i remove them they are not easy to remove i dont wanna harm them. Is separing them necessary?

 

[SpookySpooder]

I've never bred a Tarantula egg sac but I don't think it is necessary, just let them eat them.

I know in nature a multitude of animal species will lay extra eggs, sometimes infertile, as food for the developing offspring.

I haven't seen a study that backs this up in T's, but I am assuming it is the same.

 

[Tentacle Toast]

Unless you have cake, let them eat eggs.

 

[cold blood]

I have bred pokies numerous times and have only seen this in one or two isolated instances....but I certainly have heard of it happening more over the years...especially with ornata..

 

[Wolfram1]

Some Notes on cannibalism in Theraphosid Praelarvae and Larvae

It is well known that tarantulas are cannibalistic in most cases. The nymphs of the 1st moulting stage are often separated very soon, since they often start to decimate each other very quickly. For a long time it was thought that the praelarvae and larvae would feed exclusively on the yolk...

arachnoboards.com

 

[Tarantuland]

They definitely do it, but I look at it as letting the stronger ones survive. I think you'd lose even more by bursting by separating ewl than you would to predation

 

[vancwa]

Survival of the fittest.

 

[The Snark]

Survival of the fittest.

But the word 'fittest' is such a narrow minded humanesque way of thinking. Fastest, fiercest... and so on. Mom nature has dozens, more like hundreds of ways of trying to maintain a balance and species survival. Humans need to expand their thinking, realize how little we know and how much we still have to learn.

Here we sit at an apex proudly proclaiming knowledge, when what we see around us is millions upon millions of years of trial and error experimentation and adaptation.