Psalmopoeus ecclesiasticus

[pyro fiend]

Cb is right unless you bought them at way dif times youl never be able to breed those. psalm dont like cold, i lost 4 not too long back from a heater malfunction =\ however any male produced would be able to be loaned out which is just as good

 

[louise f]

fyi the male will mature and be long dead by the time the female is mature. This is a genus I think it would be very difficult to manipulate into making that work. Males can just grow and mature sooo fast. Now I've never had this particular species, but I have had many other Psalms.

Sweet t louise.

Thanks my friend thats true, but if that happens i hope i can find a male somewhere at that time.
But it is not gonna be easy finding them, so i will staying in my hoping that it will be one of each and crossing my fingers for that female will grow faster.

 

[advan]

fyi the male will mature and be long dead by the time the female is mature. This is a genus I think it would be very difficult to manipulate into making that work. Males can just grow and mature sooo fast. Now I've never had this particular species, but I have had many other Psalms.

Sweet t louise.

Cb is right unless you bought them at way dif times youl never be able to breed those. psalm dont like cold, i lost 4 not too long back from a heater malfunction =\ however any male produced would be able to be loaned out which is just as good

Yes they can.

This not true and you know it's not. This is your preference being spewed as fact.

All same sac(brother/sister) pairings with young females.(Yes, freshly mature females can also produce good sacs).

Ephebopus uatman

Cyriocosmus ritae

Cyriocosmus elegans

Orphnaecus sp. 'blue' (Panay Island, Philippines)

Same species, female(sister) #2

Psalmopoeus langenbucheri

Haplocosmia himalayana (hatched with mom)

Ornithoctoninae sp. 'hati hati' (Sulawesi, Indonesia) (ex. Cyriopagopus sp. 'hati hati')

 

[louise f]

my avicularia Guyana blue pair was from same eggsac, and they could breed just fine.
i also have seen it with groups of Poecilotheria regalis

 

[cold blood]

@advan, I have heard you mention that before, I just really thought that because of their fast growth and the way male Psalms mature SOO fast that it would be more difficult to do with something in this genus than it might be with some others out there.

Just using an example, I had 2 P. cams I bought a few years back. Both were unsexed slings, siblings. Despite the fact that the female was fed basically every 3rd day and the male was fed CONSIDERABLY less (sometimes only once a month)...none-the-less, that male still matured in just 13 months and the female was only maybe 4" at that time...in fact a full year later she is just now approaching the 6.5" (she's actually just a hair over 6") size that the male matured at well over a year ago.

Now I know these aren't P. cams here, but they are closely related and I would expect growth rates and maturity rates to be somewhat similar.....results for irminia have been very similar, too.

I do see you had different luck with your langenbucheri, so you're right, its obviously possible, I just figured this would be one of the more difficult genera to manipulate from my own experiences.

 

[Angel Minkov]

I bought a presumed female ornata (shot in the dark via ventral sexing, turned out female after I checked its most recent molt). I had a male which was bigger than her. She molted 3 times and he's molted once. Growth manipulation isn't difficult, just feed scarcely and keep the males 5-6C lower. I can't agree more with Chad on the matter

PS: I bought a 5'' female miranda a year ago. She molted 3 times as well, while the 4'' male I bought shortly after has molted only once (around September) and I don't see him molting anytime soon... Or maturing in less than a year for that matter.