What to do with eggsacs?

[Ijk24]

Hi, I was recently thinking about mating my L. Parahybana and I was wondering what do you do after the eggs hatch?

 

[Poec54]

Unload as many as possible, as fast as possible. They can have 1,000 to 2,000 tiny slings per sac. Sell/trade what you can to dealers and you'll still have hundreds to give away. Any more than 2 or 3 LP sacs a year in the US would probably saturate the market.

 

[Sarkhan42]

Hi, I was recently thinking about mating my L. Parahybana and I was wondering what do you do after the eggs hatch?

L parahybana have babies in the thousands, which means you would have to care for thousands of slings, seperated into individual vials after some time(not sure when they have to be seperated in their growth stages), and individually cared for. You'd likely end up trying to give them away due to how common they are, but with dedication you could definitely do it. Can't say I'd recommend it.

 

[Flexzone]

Over at the tarantula shop I help out at we are drowning in Lasiodora slings and were a good number of people, I would find dealers beforehand who would be willing to take your load of slings should you want to breed them.

 

[Ijk24]

Over at the tarantula shop I help out at we are drowning in Lasiodora slings and were a good number of people, I would find dealers beforehand who would be willing to take your load of slings should you want to breed them.

At what size should I start to sell them?

 

[Flexzone]

At what size should I start to sell them?

At TC they sell them as soon as they are able to start feeding, After they molt out of EWL stage. ex. ~1/4"

 

[Ijk24]

At TC they sell them as soon as they are able to start feeding, After they molt out of EWL stage.

And how much do you think they'll sell for each?

 

[Flexzone]

And how much do you think they'll sell for each?

Retail prices up here(Canada) there like $10 maybe $5 each depending were you look , I don't recall exact wholesale prices should you want to sell them in bulk.

 

[Ijk24]

Retail prices up here(Canada) there like $10 maybe $5 each depending were you look , I don't recall wholesale prices should you want to sell them in bulk.

Sweet so if I could somehow sell all of them then I could make around $5,000

 

[crlovel]

Sweet so if I could somehow sell all of them then I could make around $5,000

That's retail. Good luck with that.

 

[Vezon]

That's going to be retail price. At wholesale, they'd probably sell for like $.50 each or something I'd imagine.

 

[Flexzone]

Sweet so if I could somehow sell all of them then I could make around $5,000

If your gonna be selling in bulk and a dealer is willing to buy some their gonna want wholesale prices, Not retail, L.p's are a dime a dozen so don't expect to be selling them like hotcakes at retail prices.

 

[vespers]

What to do with eggsacs? Eat them; its almost like cotton candy filled with tapioca pudding. Yummy.

 

[Poec54]

Sweet so if I could somehow sell all of them then I could make around $5,000

Nowhere near that! If that was the case, there would be a lot more people breeding them. If you can get .50 per sling wholesale, you're doing good. Dealers could potentially take a hundreds of them (but expect some dealers to refuse them, even for free), and you'd want to do that fast, at 2nd instar. If they're kept together, they start cannibalizing and that's just a waste. Money down the drain. If you have to separate them, you'll spend more on vials than you'll make on selling the slings.

Maybe you can make a net profit of $100-$200 on an LP sac. But the longer you sit on them, the more money and time you'll have in them, and you could end up breaking even, or even losing money. You'll need to breed baby crickets in large numbers or the cost of those will soon exceed the sales value of the slings. Selling them retail, maybe you can get $2 or $3 a sling (remember, they're tiny), but that means sitting on hundreds of them, feeding and watering each vial, many hours packing and shipping a couple slings here, a couple slings there. You'll have people who can't make up their minds, and keep calling over and over, and after a couple hours of phone calls, then only buy one $2 spider. It'll eat up a lot of your time and you'll have little to show for it. Retail's a time-sucking nightmare, that's why I ship mine off in large groups to dealers.

There's a reason few people breed LP's: You're overwhelmed with tiny slings and it's a struggle to get rid of them.

 

[vespers]

Sweet so if I could somehow sell all of them then I could make around $5,000

No way that's going to happen. I've been to a reptile show where they couldn't even give away Lp slings. There were attempting to use "3 packs" of them as raffle/door prizes that no one wanted to win LOL...

 

[jiacovazzi]

Hi, I was recently thinking about mating my L. Parahybana and I was wondering what do you do after the eggs hatch?

I'm not going to tell you what to do, but the hobby is already inundated with LP's already. Perhaps breed a species that isn't commonly seen in the hobby? A friend of mine bred his LP and he got over 1500 slings. He was giving a lot away to friends, freebies with purchases, they really aren't worth much.

 

[Kymura]

Such a shame really as I personally really like them. But I think I paid four dollars for my sling at a half an inch. Imagine opening a thousand vials and cleaning watering and feeding each one. By the time you get done it's time to start over again.

 

[crlovel]

You could keep them all and be like the be-all end-all knowledge source of all things L.P. A 1,000 slings in one sitting, figure 33% female and 66% male, and when they mature, you could have another 333,000 babies - and the sky is the limit! You'll be a billionaire off of parahybana slings! Easiest money ever, you can quit your day job!

 

[louise f]

I know a guy in Denmark who breed those, he could not get rid of them, not even for free. So he started to feed them to his other spiders.

 

[Kymura]

I know a guy in Denmark who breed those, he could not get rid of them, not even for free. So he started to feed them to his other spiders.

That just seriously makes me a little ill...