My first sac!

[dragontears]

The babies are still developing!

March 10th:

Today:

There has been some cannibalism:

 

[funnylori]

That cannibalisim photo is just incredible!

 

[Talkenlate04]

See everyone in this thread was saying they were 1st instar,
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=117157
But those pics look exactly like yours. I was the only one that said eggs with legs.
Do versi eggs with legs look like most 1st instars of other species or is it just me?:?

 

[funnylori]

egg> pops top to eggs with legs> molts to first instar. These are first instar, and the ones in the other thread look like first instar. I know it's counterintuitive. But the casting of the egg skin when they pop to eggs with legs apparently doesn't count as a molt. It seems weird to me. I never thought versi's looked different from other first instars.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Wait so this is their second molt? But they just molted to eggs with legs on the 10th........:?

 

[funnylori]

Yes. Eggs with legs on the 10th, and now first instar as of yesterday/today.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Yes. Eggs with legs on the 10th, and now first instar as of yesterday/today.

4-5 days between molts? I am really lost now. But ok. I did not know that was possible.

 

[dragontears]

it was a lot faster than I was thinking it would be too. I think they started popping into eggs with legs on the 9th, when they were in Lori's care. The pics I took on the 10th were after some of them were completed with their transition to eggs with legs.

There are still some that haven't developed legs yet though...will these eggs not ever develop, or are they just really slow?

 

[Talkenlate04]

There are still some that haven't developed legs yet though...will these eggs not ever develop, or are they just really slow?

I would think that if there are eggs that are now 1st instar, the ones that are eggs are not going to develop.

 

[dragontears]

drats. That sucks. There are a lot of undeveloped ones. They still look healthy, but they haven't popped out yet.

There are currently 37 that are first instar and many more that haven't molted yet.

Ya know, for whatever reason, I was thinking that first instar implied more movement than these guys are capable of. These guys can move around and feed on each other, but the movement seems more accidental than intentional.

 

[smof]

Ya know, for whatever reason, I was thinking that first instar implied more movement than these guys are capable of. These guys can move around and feed on each other, but the movement seems more accidental than intentional.

Heh, that's just their excuse. "I didn't mean to eat my sac-mate, it was an accident!"

 

[Talkenlate04]

drats. That sucks. There are a lot of undeveloped ones. They still look healthy, but they haven't popped out yet.

There are currently 37 that are first instar and many more that haven't molted yet.

Ya know, for whatever reason, I was thinking that first instar implied more movement than these guys are capable of. These guys can move around and feed on each other, but the movement seems more accidental than intentional.

Keep them around till they turn black or shrivel just to make sure.

 

[dragontears]

yep, planning on that. I've picked out the dark ones as they go, but the yellow ones I'm leaving until I'm sure.

 

[funnylori]

We need more pictures. I know they are developing.

 

[dragontears]

I know, it's been a while....

Here are the babies on April 5th:

And here are the babies today...the first sling molted to second instar about 10:30pm last night.

 

[Mr. Mordax]

It's BLUUUUUUEEEEE!!!!!

I guess I had good timing for finding this thread.

 

[dragontears]

One down...

One baby died. He had a bad molt to first instar which carried over to his molt to second instar. He ended up losing a leg and dying. Poor little guy.

Most of the others are little active blue streaks at this point though. I separated out 33 babies last night and this morning several more had molted out. It looks like only a dozen more have to molt before I can get a final count.
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