Poecilotheria species with extra instar question.

[jrh3]

With the poecilotheria species that have the extra instar before turning into slings. Can you separate them at 2nd instar or is it best to wait until 3rd? This is my first species with the extra instar and would think for ease of containment the 2nd instar would be easier.

 

[Andrew Clayton]

I have never bread any poecilotheria, but, I would assume that these guys will do better being left until 3rd. I'm sure that's why some people think these can be communal, the fact they can be left together longer than other genus.

 

[Wolfram1]

can't remember where i saw it exactly, but i think it was a polish keeper that used a bunch of short "corrugated electrical tubing" cuttings, about 1" in length, to fill a Tupperware (on some moist substrate & standard cross-ventilation of a larger setup) to house his entire sack for the first few moults and then used the fact that they would seal themselves off individually into the short tubes to separate them with ease after a few moults.

feeding them all at once too by simply dumping in a whole bunch of pinhead crickets, etc.

i have never tried this so i can't comment if it truly works as described, but i thought it was ingenious. even if there is a slight risk of cannibalism it should save a massive amount of time when compared to individually feeding and watering them. That is if the risk of cannibalism during the first few moults is truly as small as described. And they would still be separated after a few moults.

sorry, not a direct answer to your question, but i have been mulling over it again and thought i'd throw it out there.

 

[Andrew Clayton]

can't remember where i saw it exactly, but i think it was a polish keeper that used a bunch of short "corrugated electrical tubing" cuttings, about 1" in length, to fill a Tupperware (on some moist substrate & standard cross-ventilation of a larger setup) to house his entire sack for the first few moults and then used the fact that they would seal themselves off individually into the short tubes to separate them with ease after a few moults.

feeding them all at once too by simply dumping in a whole bunch of pinhead crickets, etc.

i have never tried this so i can't comment if it truly works as described, but i thought it was ingenious. even if there is a slight risk of cannibalism it should safe a massive amount of time when compared to individually feeding and watering them. That is if the risk of cannibalism during the first few moults is truly as small as described. And they would still be separated after a few moults.

sorry, not a direct answer to your question, but i have been mulling over it again and thought i'd throw it out there.

This does sound like it would work in theory. Off to the workshop it is lol.

 

[jrh3]

can't remember where i saw it exactly, but i think it was a polish keeper that used a bunch of short "corrugated electrical tubing" cuttings, about 1" in length, to fill a Tupperware (on some moist substrate & standard cross-ventilation of a larger setup) to house his entire sack for the first few moults and then used the fact that they would seal themselves off individually into the short tubes to separate them with ease after a few moults.

feeding them all at once too by simply dumping in a whole bunch of pinhead crickets, etc.

i have never tried this so i can't comment if it truly works as described, but i thought it was ingenious. even if there is a slight risk of cannibalism it should safe a massive amount of time when compared to individually feeding and watering them. That is if the risk of cannibalism during the first few moults is truly as small as described. And they would still be separated after a few moults.

sorry, not a direct answer to your question, but i have been mulling over it again and thought i'd throw it out there.

sounds interesting and I bet straws would work too.

 

[Kada]

Just when they ban plastic straws, we read about a good use for them!

I bet a lot of hollow grasses would work as well. But mold could be a big issue.