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Hey Oli, I have some Huntsman also. Is it easy to tell mature males with these? Are the bulbs on the pedipalps real obvious?
Haha, well I just killed a cockroach and put it with my male,hi,
what i tell now is my own experience and opinion about this. and this is a different one than i read in a lot of articles/books.
but i believe a lot of hobby keeper and breeder have a similar experience...
in the last about 8 years, i was keeping males of at least 10 different sp. (i believe more, but at least) and i offered food and water to the adult males regularly. and the males of nearly every species was taking this for a long time !
rule : males that are adult but didn't mated can live very long in a lot of species ! in fact longer than every literature (i know) teaches...
for example i have now at present time an adult male of lycosa tarantula -he is adult now for 7 month !
another example is my ancylometes rufus male, he is adult now since exactly 07.07.2010 and still he is fit ! BUT his brother - adult two days before - is dead since a few weeks and he WAS MATED.
in fact UNmated males live longer than mated ones (most times).
adult males don't eat as much as females, but they eat regularly.
all this is observation in captivity ! i can't compare this with observations in nature - because i didn't had chance to do this...
but what ever : simply relax one of your females is mated now - so you will have a lot of slings
and i'm sure that he will mate the other one the same after a SHORT break...
bye, oli
p.s.: my illness is to write to long posts
hi, yes my huntsman have hatched 2 days ago! i have a threaad about that,Hey huntsman just hadda good read of ur post very interesting, has ur female made its egg sack yet?
I've got a pet huntsman myself its a badged huntman not sure of the technical name of it but its the only one ive seen in my life, its colours is just stunning. wish i had a pair of them so i can breed them because i dont think ill be able to come across another one of these again.