How many times does an Adult Female tarantula can lay eggsac on her lifetime ?

[Papiroach]

How many times does an Adult Female tarantula can lay eggsac on her lifetime ?

 

[A guy]

There is no fixed number

 

[viper69]

Don’t think that is known

 

[Papiroach]

There is no fixed number

thank you

Don’t think that is known

okay another thing, is it possible that after a Matured female drop eggsac, does she continue to grow/molt ?

 

[l4nsky]

okay another thing, is it possible that after a Matured female drop eggsac, does she continue to grow/molt ?

Yes, unless she experiences complications and passes. Tarantulas don't have the same "live fast, die young" life cycle like a lot of true spiders where they only get one shot.

 

[cold blood]

thank you
okay another thing, is it possible that after a Matured female drop eggsac, does she continue to grow/molt ?

A female will mature long before she reaches max size.....so if she is bred soon after maturing, yes, but if the female is older and has already attained max size, then it will not likely grow much, although it will continue to molt of course.

 

[Papiroach]

Yes, unless she experiences complications and passes. Tarantulas don't have the same "live fast, die young" life cycle like a lot of true spiders where they only get one shot.

I ask these questions because I have an Immature Female GBB around 4" DLS, and planning to breed her on her next molt, maybe she will be around 4.5" or so then, and I'm kinda skeptical if she will continue to grow, or possible to stunt her growth. anyways, already got ur answers,

thanks !

 

[viper69]

thank you
okay another thing, is it possible that after a Matured female drop eggsac, does she continue to grow/molt ?

Yes

 

[l4nsky]

I ask these questions because I have an Immature Female GBB around 4" DLS, and planning to breed her on her next molt, maybe she will be around 4.5" or so then, and I'm kinda skeptical if she will continue to grow, or possible to stunt her growth. anyways, already got ur answers,

thanks !

So, in that situation where a female lays a successful eggsack during one of her molting cycles, I wouldn't expect large jumps in size the following molt as all her resources went to the eggsack, but future molt cycles without reproduction should see better growth IMHO unless she's approaching the maximum size for her species.