JBM's Photo Thread

[jbm150]

Just got home from work to find this:

Umm is this what I think it is? If so, this is a new one to me!

 

[mcluskyisms]

Congrats on the P. cambridgei!!!

 

[jbm150]

Yep, it is what I thought it was

Man, this breeding thing is a cinch

Congrats on the P. cambridgei!!!

Thanks man but alas, as I've never bred her, it's gotta be infertile. I feel like I need to do something for her, make her comfortable somehow lol


Actually, do I need to do anything? Do I just wait until she abandons it or eats it? Does she need any environmental changes? I kinda feel bad for her, its her first and nothing will come of it

 

[Shell]

Dud sac or not, she is gorgeous, Jeff, and great pics of her!

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

Actually, do I need to do anything? Do I just wait until she abandons it or eats it? Does she need any environmental changes? I kinda feel bad for her, its her first and nothing will come of it

You don't need to do anything. I would wait and see what she does. Lots of species will eat their eggsacs if they aren't any good, others will just discard it. I have a female who has dropped 2 dud sacs for me as well, but I'm not sure if she's a real cambridgei so that's why she hasn't been paired.

 

[matt82]

Shame that the eggsac was infertile, in my relatively short time keeping Ts, this is the first time I had heard of a tarantula female laying infertile eggs and making and tending to the sac as well. Pretty interesting to see Really nice photo too.

 

[jbm150]

Dud sac or not, she is gorgeous, Jeff, and great pics of her!

Thanks shell, I thought she was going to be more defensive but she didn't mind me coming into her tank with my camera. She definitely is gorgeous though. Yours will be right there soon enough, psalmos grow with quickness lol

You don't need to do anything. I would wait and see what she does. Lots of species will eat their eggsacs if they aren't any good, others will just discard it. I have a female who has dropped 2 dud sacs for me as well, but I'm not sure if she's a real cambridgei so that's why she hasn't been paired.

Thanks Jason, if you know, with unfertilized sacs, do they tend to abandon or eat them quickly, like they know right off there's no chance? Or will they nurture and defend the sac as if it was good?

Shame that the eggsac was infertile, in my relatively short time keeping Ts, this is the first time I had heard of a tarantula female laying infertile eggs and making and tending to the sac as well. Pretty interesting to see Really nice photo too.

I've heard about it in Ts and I've had other animals do it (lizards, fish, birds), but this is the first of my Ts. Its kinda neat, seeing them in a different state than eating, building, or resting. And thank you

 

[papilio]

Fascinating, isn't it Jeff! My first versicolor dropped a 'virgin birth' sac, just to see what would happen I left her alone and she clutched it tightly every minute for over a month before at last she ate it.

 

[Hendersoniana]

Great photos! Perhaps the egg sac was a sign she wants to breed .

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

Thanks Jason, if you know, with unfertilized sacs, do they tend to abandon or eat them quickly, like they know right off there's no chance? Or will they nurture and defend the sac as if it was good?

Typically they'll eat it right away or within a few days, but sometimes they'll hang on to it for a while.

 

[advan]

Congrats on the dud Jeff! Looks like your doing it right! I think she is trying to tell you something!

 

[jbm150]

Fascinating, isn't it Jeff! My first versicolor dropped a 'virgin birth' sac, just to see what would happen I left her alone and she clutched it tightly every minute for over a month before at last she ate it.

Wow, a month? Kinda sad in a way....

Great photos! Perhaps the egg sac was a sign she wants to breed .

Yeah.....I dunno if I'm ready for that kind of responsibility lol

Typically they'll eat it right away or within a few days, but sometimes they'll hang on to it for a while.

I gotcha, goes towards what papilio said. I'll be curious to see what she does, being it's her first

Congrats on the dud Jeff! Looks like your doing it right! I think she is trying to tell you something!

Haha thanks man, probably so

 

[jbm150]

The girl is still holding onto her sack :/


Took this black beauty for a Sunday morning walk

Looks so good against a light background

and a quick jaunt onto my hands

 

[Hendersoniana]

Nice colouration, a real beauty there! Very cute too

 

[mcluskyisms]

Cant beat a nice G. pulchra.

 

[jbm150]

Thank you very much to you both

 

[Storm76]

She's cute

 

[jbm150]

Thanks storm

As a final update, Denali finally ate her dud sac. She also went on a rampage on her whole enclosure, leaving her web lair a tattered mess :/


Rehoused my little tiger girl. Not a great pic but a taste of things to eventually come

 

[matt82]

Nice one Jeff, so I take it that this is the first sign of the adult colouration then, what size LS is she here? A bit of a clichéd response, but its true, I can't wait till mine look like that, such beautiful Ts.

Pretty interesting update on the dud sac, or more so the following behaviour from the female. It would make you wonder what would cause a mainly reclusive and subdued animal to flip out and tear the place up like that, possibly some kind of trauma or anxiety connected with being gravid with an eventual dud sac? Who knows I suppose, interesting though.

 

[jbm150]

Thanks Matt, she's about 2.5" or so, still a youngster. Her looks will become more defined as she grows but yeah, basically her adult look. So beautiful and interesting looking

I'm not sure what was up, it wasn't like she tore the webbing around where she was keeping her egg sac. She's in a 10 gal upright and nearly every inch of it is webbed. It looks like she went around and tore holes and strips of webbing, the whole place looks tattered. May have been random, may have been out of some feeling of anxiety or frustration, may have been accidental, who knows. Kind of interesting though


Anyways, some pics of another beauty, Maia

Amazing a species of tarantula is so colorful