Experienced Breeders: Pull the Eggsac or Leave With Momma till hatch

[Mojo Jojo]

So what do you do?

Please be honest.

Thanks,

Jon

 

[deifiler]

In my limited experience I leave the mother with the eggsac. I intend to do this in the future too

No particular reason why, well actually I think the spider makes a better mother than I do, plus it's the responsibility of keeping the egg etc

 

[Immortal_sin]

In my limited experience (I currently have eggsac #5), I leave it with mom for 30 days, then pull it an incubate myself. The only time I didn't do this was the first one, I waited WAY TOO LONG, and the spiderlings started dispersing all over the house
AND, I had to separate over 600 of them out of a huge rubbermaid container filled with substrate....not fun!
So far, the pulling the sac at day 30 (more or less) has worked very well for the other 3 sacs, and I plan to do it again with the current one

 

[SSW.com]

I also use 30 days as a general rule....then pull the sac....and have had real good success.



Joel

 

[SpiderTwin]

I also have only limited experience (2 eggsacks). But both times I left the eggsack with the mother until the slings emerged.

I don't have a way of incubating them, and I feel that mom is the best one to raise the little ones.

 

[MrT]

30 day rule.
I lost a good H. lividum sac by leaveing it in one day longer than I had planed to. One day!


Ern

 

[tarantulakeeper]

After 3 weeks my infertile sacs have been abandoned by the female. Those that weren't abandoned I pulled at 50 days. Incubating to me is just suspending the eggsac on a paper towel over wet vermiculite in a 1 pound deli container. I sneak a peek with a small cut into the sac when I pull it. I've pulled two Aphonopelma sacs and one Brachypelma sac and I'm waiting for time to pass on a Chaco sac.

Three times I didn't pull. Twice with my Usambara because it's not a 'sac' and my vericolor's eggsac was deep in her web tube and I let her keep it. All produced spiderlings.

My total success rate over the past three years (without dragging out my records) is about 20% from breeding to lings. It's not as easy as it reads. Everyone should keep trying.

John