I do not envy breeders...

[SpookySpooder]

About number 3, how do you see it even after pulling the egg sac? Do you like open it right away in the incubator?

You wait the appropriate amount of time for each species for the eggs to develop to the EWL stage. You pull it around that time, and check. If you timed it correctly (and you can reference other keeper's breeding journals to get an idea of when to pull it) then you can check and most likely you will have EWL and hopefully no bad eggs.

When you open the sac, make sure to pinch very lightly on the surface of it to avoid crushing any eggs. Tweezers really help if your dexterity isn't great. You want to very carefully pull apart each layer in an alternating cross pattern to avoid crushing any eggs. I've seen some people go at it with surgical scissors. I myself use a scalpel and a tweezer. I slice at an angle parallel to the sac as opposed to straight down.

I haven't paired any T's myself (YET!) but I've helped a couple local breeders with their slings and was surprised to learn, just like you Wenzer, I had more info on hand than they did.

 

[l4nsky]

About number 3, how do you see it even after pulling the egg sac? Do you like open it right away in the incubator?

In most cases, yes.

 

[TechnoGeek]

You wait the appropriate amount of time for each species for the eggs to develop to the EWL stage. You pull it around that time, and check. If you timed it correctly (and you can reference other keeper's breeding journals to get an idea of when to pull it) then you can check and most likely you will have EWL and hopefully no bad eggs.

Ok gotcha. Any idea what these timeframes are for G pulchra?

 

[A guy]

I went to a friend's shop one time, caught them separating parahybana slings. When finished, they counted or at least stopped counting at 2000 slings.

 

[Wenzer]

You wait the appropriate amount of time for each species for the eggs to develop to the EWL stage. You pull it around that time, and check. If you timed it correctly (and you can reference other keeper's breeding journals to get an idea of when to pull it) then you can check and most likely you will have EWL and hopefully no bad eggs.

When you open the sac, make sure to pinch very lightly on the surface of it to avoid crushing any eggs. Tweezers really help if your dexterity isn't great. You want to very carefully pull apart each layer in an alternating cross pattern to avoid crushing any eggs. I've seen some people go at it with surgical scissors. I myself use a scalpel and a tweezer. I slice at an angle parallel to the sac as opposed to straight down.

I haven't paired any T's myself (YET!) but I've helped a couple local breeders with their slings and was surprised to learn, just like you Wenzer, I had more info on hand than they did.

It is unfortunate finding out that this wasn't exactly the kind of learning experience I was expecting but learning, regardless! I don't have any ambitions to breed as it is, just thought I could help someone out and satisfy my curiosities at the same time. Since they're not my personal slings I was going to follow their instructions exactly, but it's a bit of a murky situation now it seems like

I haven't gotten a response from them since I asked what they'd like me to do in regards to incubating or leaving them separated, but since I'll be the one caring for them for this coming week I decided to follow the advice here to put them all back together in an incubator. I'd rather play it safe and try to give the slings a better chance. When they get back from vacation, they can do with them what they choose to... But I hope that they are receptive of the info here that I've tried to show them

 

[cold blood]

About number 3, how do you see it even after pulling the egg sac? Do you like open it right away in the incubator?

yes, you open a sac when it goes in the incubator

cambridgei EWLs

• cold blood
• Sep 25, 2019
• 2
• cambridgei eggs with legs psalmopoeus psalmopoeus cambridgei sling trinidad chevron tarantula

You wait the appropriate amount of time for each species for the eggs to develop to the EWL stage. You pull it around that time,

you can actually pull it much much earlier than that if you wanted...I pull sacs early for the reasons I mentioned above.

 

[SpookySpooder]

It is unfortunate finding out that this wasn't exactly the kind of learning experience I was expecting but learning, regardless! I don't have any ambitions to breed as it is, just thought I could help someone out and satisfy my curiosities at the same time. Since they're not my personal slings I was going to follow their instructions exactly, but it's a bit of a murky situation now it seems like

I haven't gotten a response from them since I asked what they'd like me to do in regards to incubating or leaving them separated, but since I'll be the one caring for them for this coming week I decided to follow the advice here to put them all back together in an incubator. I'd rather play it safe and try to give the slings a better chance. When they get back from vacation, they can do with them what they choose to... But I hope that they are receptive of the info here that I've tried to show them

Yes... it's quite unfortunate that they don't want to leverage the amount of experience and information refined over years and readily available from much more experienced hobbyists.

What was that old adage again?

"You can lead a breeder to Arachnoboards, but you can't force them to read."

Or something like that.

Since they are in your care, you're free to do as you please. Pull them, incubate them, return them as 2i perfectly healthy and then tell them they're welcome courtesy of the interwebz.

Or just do as they want and let them deal with the effect. ("Lose" a couple my way!)

Whatever you choose to do, good luck!