Andrew101
Arachnopeon
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- Dec 7, 2016
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S. galapagoensis was paired in the month of July ( forgot to document when it was exactly)
, 1st attempt of pairing was in June 24th 2020 where the male was trying to coax to the female into breeding but being short on time and after 2 hours where the female didn't show signs of interest I separated the 2 and tried again on the following day.
Following day the female showed more interest in breeding and after 6 hours of monitoring the pairing, the male then made the spermatophore but female didn't take it on the spot. She however did show interest in it so I separated the male after that and left the spermatophore with the female in case she does take it. Following day the sperm web was gone so it was either accepted or she rejected it and ate the spermatophore so, I decided to give it another attempt in a week or two being I was moving in July and running short of time being in the clutch season and the male was on loan to me to someone local so had to get the female to take the spermatophore.
3rd pairing seems to be successful, decided to leave the pair together in the breeding tub for 2 and a half days hoping maybe she either took it before or at least have the female pair another time to confirm she had taken the spermatophore. Unfortunately I couldn't get documentation of the female taking the spermatophore however, the female showed interest in pairing until the end of the 2nd day the male showed no more interest in breeding along the female too so it's possible it was a successful pairing being this species do eat the sperm web if they taken the spermatophore.
The female now was preparing a chamber to clutch and being I had her in a shallow tub, I decided to transfer her on August 17th 2020 into a deeper tub with more substrate to give her more options for her to burrow deeper into the dirt ( roughly 4.5-5 inches of substrate was given) and I didn't want the plings escaping from the tub being the first tub was shallow.
Picture of the female that produced me the clutch.
Eggs were discovered on the 1st of September but picture here was taken on the 15th of September since I wasn't sure if the female was going to eat the eggs from being disturbed the first time when I was checking for eggs. I took a few pictures throughout the development, didn't take many pictures since with how she was angled under the bark it was pretty difficult to get decent pictures in general since she tends to move further back of the bark or grip onto it making it sometimes hard to check.
Picture taken on October 2nd 2020
Picture taken on October 14th 2020
Picture taken on October 18th 2020, 2 days before plings eat the mother.
Picture taken on October 20th 2020, the day the plings eaten the mother.
Picture was taken on November 28th 2020
Took 40 days from them being in the maggot stage to have their first meal. First 2 weeks being in the maggot stage to molt to 1st instar and another 2 weeks for them to harden up for their first meal.
, 1st attempt of pairing was in June 24th 2020 where the male was trying to coax to the female into breeding but being short on time and after 2 hours where the female didn't show signs of interest I separated the 2 and tried again on the following day.
Following day the female showed more interest in breeding and after 6 hours of monitoring the pairing, the male then made the spermatophore but female didn't take it on the spot. She however did show interest in it so I separated the male after that and left the spermatophore with the female in case she does take it. Following day the sperm web was gone so it was either accepted or she rejected it and ate the spermatophore so, I decided to give it another attempt in a week or two being I was moving in July and running short of time being in the clutch season and the male was on loan to me to someone local so had to get the female to take the spermatophore.
3rd pairing seems to be successful, decided to leave the pair together in the breeding tub for 2 and a half days hoping maybe she either took it before or at least have the female pair another time to confirm she had taken the spermatophore. Unfortunately I couldn't get documentation of the female taking the spermatophore however, the female showed interest in pairing until the end of the 2nd day the male showed no more interest in breeding along the female too so it's possible it was a successful pairing being this species do eat the sperm web if they taken the spermatophore.
The female now was preparing a chamber to clutch and being I had her in a shallow tub, I decided to transfer her on August 17th 2020 into a deeper tub with more substrate to give her more options for her to burrow deeper into the dirt ( roughly 4.5-5 inches of substrate was given) and I didn't want the plings escaping from the tub being the first tub was shallow.
Picture of the female that produced me the clutch.
Eggs were discovered on the 1st of September but picture here was taken on the 15th of September since I wasn't sure if the female was going to eat the eggs from being disturbed the first time when I was checking for eggs. I took a few pictures throughout the development, didn't take many pictures since with how she was angled under the bark it was pretty difficult to get decent pictures in general since she tends to move further back of the bark or grip onto it making it sometimes hard to check.
Picture taken on October 2nd 2020
Picture taken on October 14th 2020
Picture taken on October 18th 2020, 2 days before plings eat the mother.
Picture taken on October 20th 2020, the day the plings eaten the mother.
Picture was taken on November 28th 2020
Took 40 days from them being in the maggot stage to have their first meal. First 2 weeks being in the maggot stage to molt to 1st instar and another 2 weeks for them to harden up for their first meal.