Multiple Egg Sac - Holothele sp., and interesting behavior

[AbraxasComplex]

I'm not sure if it's common knowlegde or if what occured for me is rare, but I'd like to share it.


Several months ago I removed a female Holothele incei with an eggsac from her communal tank in order to isolate atleast one batch of slings (I already had 3 other egg sacs hatch in that tank). After several months in the enclosure with her young, I noticed she had retreated to her burrow for some time. I checked tonight and she had a second egg sac. She has had no contact with any males since August 2008.

Also I tried breeding a female Holothele Notre de Santander that was seperated from the communal group I had. She produced an eggsac 3 months ago, but was quite touchy when I disturbed her too much and consumed the sac 3 weeks into incubation. I checked on her last night and found she had another egg sac as well.


On another interesting note, my Holothele incei slings (that I mentioned before) while living with their mother in a small enclosure have seperated into two "cliques". One seems to move like a flock/herd, scattering in the same direction and running across the cage together as a group when they feel threatened. They do not retreat to the many web tunnels built through out the cage (even unoccupied ones). They choose to stay on the surface and always together. The other clique are the loners with their own personal burrows always waiting at the entrance. They may share with one or two, but you can usually see distinct tunnel entrances that are used by stationary individuals.

 

[Kimo]

I had two sacks from my female H.incei after few matings with same male. First eggsack counted 98 slings and second about 60. I put all those 60 together in 30x30x30cm enclosure for few months then I will separate them in bigger terariums. Anyway I heard that they are known to multiple sacks after successful mating.

 

[olablane]

That is cool!! Sounds like I better get some of those!

 

[Veneficus]

On another interesting note, my Holothele incei slings (that I mentioned before) while living with their mother in a small enclosure have seperated into two "cliques". One seems to move like a flock/herd, scattering in the same direction and running across the cage together as a group when they feel threatened. They do not retreat to the many web tunnels built through out the cage (even unoccupied ones). They choose to stay on the surface and always together. The other clique are the loners with their own personal burrows always waiting at the entrance. They may share with one or two, but you can usually see distinct tunnel entrances that are used by stationary individuals.

I've noticed the same scenario with my communal H. incei--the slings have formed two cliques. One group has stayed together and then I have the other half of the sac which have moved off on their own and formed their own individual burrows. I'm wondering if there is a particular sex which has moved off on its own or not?