Getting an A.geniculata to drop eggsac

[Neil Richardson]

Mated my large 8Year old A.geniculata last September 2006, no sign of her dropping the sac yet. Still feeding extremely well, no darkening to show an impending moult.

Is there some trick i've missed to help make her drop the sac?

[Trevor Parsons]

You got further than I did. I can't seem to get the male any closer than a few inches and he then runs away.

Have you tried cooling her? Have you tried upping the humidity?

This is my experience from a tank of a species B. albopilosum, but being that it was my first mating ever I didn't know any better. Her substrate was junk and really needed to be changed. I made up a new tub with 6 inches of substrate then carefully eased her out of the one and into the new one. The ambient humidity of the freshly made up substrate was much higher than the old dilapidated stuff. This is one of only 2 factors I can conclude to be why she laid a sac. The other is she had an absolutely monstrous abdomen and was likely to lay a sac anyway.

[Colin D Wilson]

Neil,
try misting the tank a little heavier than normal and upping the temp a few degrees to simulate the normal habitat after the rainy season.
a chap in doncaster told me this and he has really good sucess with this genus.
hot and muggy does it, he says.

Colin

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Hi NAil!

Tell me please, what time the female shed before you've mated her?
It is known the cases female produces viable sacs after over 1 year from mating.

[Neil Richardson]

It was less than 2 months. Female had only just started eating again.