Species Monocentropus balfouri

[Andrea82]

Sorry about your male

They sure web a lot and fast too!

 

[KezyGLA]

This may seem like an odd question, how do you go about feeding a communal setup?

Thankyou. Not an odd question at all. I just toss in a generous amount of roach/crix onto the web then it they are magically gone within a few hours.

 

[KezyGLA]

Sorry about your male

They sure web a lot and fast too!

Thankyou, yes I think maybe she got spooked or just wasnt fed enough.

They do a fair bit of webbing. My 6x H. villosella so fast with the webs. They were so fast to eat each other too

 

[Magenta]

Thankyou. Not an odd question at all. I just toss in a generous amount of roach/crix onto the web then it they are magically gone within a few hours.

Do you pre-kill them? I'm just thinking about how molting would go? If one loses a leg or something, do you put it in its own enclosure?

 

[KezyGLA]

Do you pre-kill them? I'm just thinking about how molting would go? If one loses a leg or something, do you put it in its own enclosure?

I dont pre kill them no. If I do them ot may not trigger hunting reponse. I dont think all would moult at exact same time so prey items would be eaten by other specimens

 

[KezyGLA]

 

[KezyGLA]

So since the penultimate got munched and evil adult female was removed. All but 1 are accounted for.

Here are a few that were out tonight.

 

[Magenta]

You don't have issues with molting Ts being eaten by prey items? Or do they get eaten by the others before they have a chance to do that?

 

[KezyGLA]

You don't have issues with molting Ts being eaten by prey items? Or do they get eaten by the others before they have a chance to do that?

I havent encountered feeders eating away at moulting Ts before. I believe it would be less risk in commune

 

[Tanner Dzula]

I have t encountered feeders eating away at moulting Ts before. I believe it would be less risk in commune

just wondering, as I've never kept this species, especially not in a communal set up, but with the case of the Female eating the Male, is it possible they might have paired?

just curios because I know somebody locally here who currently also has a M. Balfouri communal and he has a similar issue where he woke up to find one of his males to be Eaten by The Mature Female he had gotten from a different Sac, and it had turned out they had paired up in the night and she had eaten him after the fact.

i don't know too much about the species myself so i don't know much about their Mating or anything.

 

[Magenta]

I have t encountered feeders eating away at moulting Ts before. I believe it would be less risk in commune

Okay. This is a really informative and fascinating thread.

Thank you for sharing this!

 

[KezyGLA]

just wondering, as I've never kept this species, especially not in a communal set up, but with the case of the Female eating the Male, is it possible they might have paired?

just curios because I know somebody locally here who currently also has a M. Balfouri communal and he has a similar issue where he woke up to find one of his males to be Eaten by The Mature Female he had gotten from a different Sac, and it had turned out they had paired up in the night and she had eaten him after the fact.

i don't know too much about the species myself so i don't know much about their Mating or anything.

yes that is possible

 

[keks]

The parents of my 5 slings live together since many month, I don't remember the exact time, was too excited to see that . They share their food, each of them has an own hide for molting or/and breeding.

A second group consists (I think) of four balfouri, adults. They were outside, it was a great look.

My slings molted all at the same time. I can imagine, that it is more conform for this tiny tiny things, but that's the reason why I feed pre-killed crickets. The second reason is, that the even the micro-crickets are more bigger than the one of the slings. When the slings are bigger, they have to hunt their food. Nothing in live is for free .

 

[KezyGLA]

Haven't uploaded anything here in a while.

There has been a couple of moults recently. I now have another penultimate male to make up for the previous loss.

Here is a snap from tonight

 

[NukaMedia Exotics]

Gotta love the balf communals wow... Followed on IG as well.

 

[Nightshady]

Man, I am so jealous of that setup... it looks awesome! I have always said I wasn’t going to mess with OW T’s, but a balfouri commune might be what makes me change my mind. Thanks for sharing your experience.

 

[Cavedweller]

Man, I am so jealous of that setup... it looks awesome! I have always said I wasn’t going to mess with OW T’s, but a balfouri commune might be what makes me change my mind. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I'm in the exact same boat. These guys really test my "No OW's ever" rule.

 

[Nightshady]

I'm in the exact same boat. These guys really test my "No OW's ever" rule.

Haha, I know right? And it even makes less sense that the one thing that would make us both violate our no-OW-rule is a tank full of 5-10 OW’s LOL...

 

[Venomgland]

Since I now have an established roach colony going and a never ending supply of food on hand. I look forward to starting one of these communes someday!

 

[Ivike22]

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