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For some reason, I cannot chat. Same server, same empty space.
Anyways, I paired up Poecilotheria regalis (thanks Greg). Preparation consisted of placing the candidate female's 10 gal. enclosure, on top of another enclosure containing a previously thought immature female (this would help me to get a better shot off from my camera. The male was introduced. He went to town, drumming and audibly tapping. The female moved a bit, with his drumming, but didn't advance. The male continued to drum, down the inside, across the substrate, and back up the other side, pausing momentarily every few inches to court. I figured this is not right, he doesn't know where he's at. At that moment I heard some background drumming. The male was going back out and down to the second enclosure, where that female was returning a "call". Neato.
So I take off the top aquarium, trying not to disturb both courting lovers. Too late, female shoots to her corkbark, but the male advances. Female still interested, takes her time getting to him. I had the perfect shot; a ventral shot of a mating then, whoops, the male falls on the female. Female runs into the cork and is done. Male keeps drumming, but the female does not. So I remove the male for a future pairing, soon.
What would it be like to see one male in a dead tree full of females? How many females would respond to his drumming and come out to play?
The male is on the outside left of the top aquarium. The interested female is in the lower aquarium, top right. The uninterested female is between the cork slabs of the top enclosure.
john
Anyways, I paired up Poecilotheria regalis (thanks Greg). Preparation consisted of placing the candidate female's 10 gal. enclosure, on top of another enclosure containing a previously thought immature female (this would help me to get a better shot off from my camera. The male was introduced. He went to town, drumming and audibly tapping. The female moved a bit, with his drumming, but didn't advance. The male continued to drum, down the inside, across the substrate, and back up the other side, pausing momentarily every few inches to court. I figured this is not right, he doesn't know where he's at. At that moment I heard some background drumming. The male was going back out and down to the second enclosure, where that female was returning a "call". Neato.
So I take off the top aquarium, trying not to disturb both courting lovers. Too late, female shoots to her corkbark, but the male advances. Female still interested, takes her time getting to him. I had the perfect shot; a ventral shot of a mating then, whoops, the male falls on the female. Female runs into the cork and is done. Male keeps drumming, but the female does not. So I remove the male for a future pairing, soon.
What would it be like to see one male in a dead tree full of females? How many females would respond to his drumming and come out to play?
The male is on the outside left of the top aquarium. The interested female is in the lower aquarium, top right. The uninterested female is between the cork slabs of the top enclosure.
john
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