2008

[Lisa Baines]

What came 1st... the chicken or the egg?????

NEITHER! IT WAS A TARANTULA!!!!!

Well done on all the successes mate

[Colin D Wilson]

Good going as always mate, and i have to agree with Phil & Guy...thats an awsome trimming job on the minax sac

[Phil Rea]

Cracking job on the minax sac. Did you use some sort of template to cut the top off or was it freehand?

Well done Chris, that's a good haul

[Guy Tansley]

Good stuff Chris,

got any soldiers to dip into that H. minax eggsac?

[Mark Pennell]

Well done Chris!

Cheers
Mark

[Chris Sainsbury]

Hi
Here my good and bad for 2008. I didn’t breed too much this year but still it was enough for me and a couple new species bred for the first time for me also, so I can’t complain.
Did the usual Psalmopoeus species like most years but gave the reduncus a rest (not that they wanted a rest as it turned out)
Psalmopoeus cambridgei 1 x good eggsac

Psalmopoeus irminia 2 x good eggsacs

Psalmopoeus pulcher 2 x sort off good eggsacs (1 contained only two nymph 2 rest of sac was bad and from the other sac only half of the sac made it through to spiderling for some unknown reason) 1 x eggsac eaten. Spot the two nymphs I saved !

Psalmopoeus reduncus 3 x phantom eggsacs
Haplopelma minax 1 x good eggsac

Cyriopagopus schieodtei 1 x good eggsac
Stromatopelma calceatum 1 x good eggsac

Lampropelma violaceopes 1x good eggsac

Chilobrachys fimbratus 1 x eggsac eaten
Chilobrachys sp. “andersoni” 2 x phantom eggsacs
Chilobrachys dyscolus 1 x phantom eggsac
Orphnaecus sp. “negro’s” 3 x phantom eggsacs
Avicularia minatrix 1 x eggsac eaten
Think that was it. I dont expect much for next year as I have nothing mated up yet and have no plans to mate anything either in the near or even distant future for the time being.

Cheers
Chris