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Originally posted by James Metcalfhttp://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/...le-incubators/ would they work[/url]
Whether they would work out not is not the question the question is are they needed and the answer is no.
If your keeping tarantulas you have at your disposal everything you need to incubate "pulled" egg sacks.
You need to read:
BTS Journal Volume 20 Number 4 August 2005
Article: Gabriel, R. - An improved method of artificial incubation.
All you need! - cost pennies!
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Yeas, plus those incubators are really made for professional breeding herpetologists who breed snakes or lizards on a large scale and regularly. Tarantula breeding there not necessary and might not work big given the egg sac constructions and reptile eggs are different compositions. Best bet is to use the methods that arachnologists have used over the years.
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Adam Smith (pe@nut)
Yeas, plus those incubators are really made for professional breeding herpetologists who breed snakes or lizards on a large scale and regularly. Tarantula breeding there not necessary and might not work big given the egg sac constructions and reptile eggs are different compositions. Best bet is to use the methods that arachnologists have used over the years.
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same here.
I recently bred Avic. avic and decided to pull the eggsack. reason for this was purly selfish. I had read Ray's artical and up till now have always left the sack with the mother. Only ever lost 1 sack (P. scrofa) doing this in 15 ish years but though "for a change I'll try it".
Result was 69 spiderlings all healthy.
It was VERY easy to make the incubator and allows you to see in at what's going on.
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Look in The BTS Journal Feb 2004 volume 19 No2 page 38-41, Artificial Incubation and the care of Nymphs by Ray Gabriel it outlines everything you need to know, I know he has done a mk2 version but I like mk1 personally. Maybe someone clever could put up a link to the artical, I can't, I'm not clever.spider woman at Wilkinsons
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