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Well tonight i attempted to breed T's for the first time. i had a F OBT molt about 3 weeks ago and a MM OBT just shipped who also very recently molted. i hadn't seen any obvious sperm webs but he is no longer aggressively attacking crickets and has spent the last several evenings doing laps around his house.
i put both of their enclosures inside a very large glass tank - opened the lids, turned out the lights and prepared to wait for some action. After a short while the male came out and made one big lap around the upper rim of the tank (with a lid on of course!!) When he got to the open lid of the F, she was very quick to join him up there. She was drumming a lot. That was so cool to see for the first time.
Anyway, she was more than receptive and he made several attempts. However, because of the angle they were at he wasn't quite able to reach her even though she was practically bent in half. They finally readjusted and i witnessed several good inserts.
i had considered just leaving them together in the large tank. However, as i watched what seemed to be a final and successful attempt, i noticed the male had his fangs out. Is this typical?
Also, as soon as they were finished they both seemed to just attack each other. i hadn't planned on having to interfer after reading so many reports of OBT's successfully cohabitating together for some time and this male will literally attempt to bite anything in his path, including walls!! i had a small flash light in my hands and was able to somehow separate them while my brother watched thinking i had truly lost my mind.
Is this typical behavior of OBT's after breeding?
The female returned to her house so i removed her enclosure from the tank and put her back in my room. The male is still running around the large tank so i just stacked a couple books on the lid and i'll just wait for him to return to his enclosure on his own. Neither of them appears to be hurt. The female is in her coconut hut but is grooming so i take that as a good sign she is not harmed.
Should i even attempt to repair these two after their rather violent parting? He definitely had a few successful inserts.
It was all pretty cool until the end. i'm not even sure who went after who. One second they were fine and the next second it was just a ball of 16 legs rolling around. i didn't read about any similar situations in the breeding reports of OBT's. Any further advice?
i put both of their enclosures inside a very large glass tank - opened the lids, turned out the lights and prepared to wait for some action. After a short while the male came out and made one big lap around the upper rim of the tank (with a lid on of course!!) When he got to the open lid of the F, she was very quick to join him up there. She was drumming a lot. That was so cool to see for the first time.
Anyway, she was more than receptive and he made several attempts. However, because of the angle they were at he wasn't quite able to reach her even though she was practically bent in half. They finally readjusted and i witnessed several good inserts.
i had considered just leaving them together in the large tank. However, as i watched what seemed to be a final and successful attempt, i noticed the male had his fangs out. Is this typical?
Also, as soon as they were finished they both seemed to just attack each other. i hadn't planned on having to interfer after reading so many reports of OBT's successfully cohabitating together for some time and this male will literally attempt to bite anything in his path, including walls!! i had a small flash light in my hands and was able to somehow separate them while my brother watched thinking i had truly lost my mind.
The female returned to her house so i removed her enclosure from the tank and put her back in my room. The male is still running around the large tank so i just stacked a couple books on the lid and i'll just wait for him to return to his enclosure on his own. Neither of them appears to be hurt. The female is in her coconut hut but is grooming so i take that as a good sign she is not harmed.
Should i even attempt to repair these two after their rather violent parting? He definitely had a few successful inserts.
It was all pretty cool until the end. i'm not even sure who went after who. One second they were fine and the next second it was just a ball of 16 legs rolling around. i didn't read about any similar situations in the breeding reports of OBT's. Any further advice?