tips and info for breeding p.metallica

[ArachShin]

i do have pair p.metallica, bot of them are matures. The male already activate its Sperm Web lately february 2nd week 2021 and the female UMD is May 2 2021 how and what should i do?

 

[8 legged]

You don't have to do anything, the spider man does that! Only give the male access to the female and avoid interfering if possible. The wrinkle should be sufficiently full and you should see that on the opistosoma.
Experienced breeders stand here to help the male not to be eaten if necessary. I never do this, it's what it is!
So, male in the female's enclosure and be patient. It can take 5 minutes, search all night or longer.
Furthermore, the female should not molt, otherwise everything will have been in vain - an egg sac is usually built OR molted!
But having no idea and then breeding pokis is not the way I would recommend!

 

[Edan bandoot]

There's a lot of ways to go about breeding them, if you care about keeping the male alive and potentially disrupting the natural process of him being eaten (which is valid for some people) you're going to have to monitor the whole ordeal. If you don't care about guaranteeing the male's longevity you can put him in the female's enclosure or attach their two enclosures together and give them a night to do their thing.

in both situations its beneficial to monitor them so that you can confirm whether they've paired or not. (although this can technically be done with a camera)

you can also introduce small amounts of their webbing to each others enclosures and "shark tank" the male inside the females enclosure. (people claim this increases the likelihood of a successful pairing)

i've heard that some pokis have enviromental conditions that have to be met inorder for the female to drop the sac, but i'll leave that to your research or someone more knowledgable.

here's the old P.met breeding report, maybe you can get some of those environmental conditions from there.

Poecilotheria metallica

Successful ???/ Unsuccessful ??? 4:45 pm. (CST) - Introduced Botar's male with my female 4:55 pm. (CST) - Male went into the female's burrow and started drumming. 4:59 pm. (CST) - Thumping heard in burrow area and male comes running out. 5:00 pm. (CST) - One of male's pedipalps looked...

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[l4nsky]

Not the easiest species. P. met has a long, 5-6 month period between pairing and eggsack production, so typically you want to try to pair them less than 3 months into the female's molt cycle. I've paired P. met once and I managed to get an eggsack (she ate it, long story short, she got exposed to a massive humidity spike and it was my fault). I paired my female one month into her molt cycle after a few good feedings. First pairing was textbook, on the second assurance attempt 3 days later, the female wasn't receptive and tried to eat the male. Before each attempt, I did a web swap the day before. After the pairing, I then dropped her burrow temp to 74 and completely saturated her substrate, keeping her in these conditions for 4 weeks, feeding one male lateralis twice a week and maintaining a very moist substrate with plenty of ventilation. I then slowly raised her burrow temp to 85 over the course of a week and stopped watering the substrate. I kept her at this temp for 12 weeks. During this time, I didn't water her substrate, I fed her two adult male lateralis or occasionally a large dubia twice a week and made sure she had access to clean water the whole time. 10 weeks into the 12 week dry period, she started refusing food and heavily webbed her corkbark tube. After the 12 week dry period, I lowered her burrow temp to 82, fully saturated her enclosure, and placed her in a quiet place in my T room. I kept her burrow temp at 82 and let the enclosure moisture levels stabilize from fully saturated to moist and kept it moist. She dropped her eggsack one month after the temp/moisture change and ate it shortly after . She was only 5.5"-6" when paired, but the bolus that was her eggsack was the size of a quarter. Really would've liked to get a count on it....

 

[ArachShin]

the male is now "shark tanked" in the female's enclosure. i was waiting to have a sign but a few days ago nothing happened.

should i wait for a week?

 

[8 legged]

Good luck!
The longest time I waited was 48h. After this time you should try it once more a week later...