C. crawshayi update

[mary walters]

Brilliant Austin, you know this will make a great journal article.

[Tom Forman]

Gl with the sack austin.

Just a quck question:

How long did it take the male to make a sperm web once you got him?

[Austin S. Spears]

Gl with the sack austin.

Just a quck question:

How long did it take the male to make a sperm web once you got him?

Thanks Tom.

It took him about one and a half weeks or so.

[Austin S. Spears]

Its been exactly 10 days since she first laid them. The sac is still hanging and she is still tending to it. I've been thinking about pulling it pretty soon however. Looking on the side of her tank, I knowticed little mite looking things on the glass, and what looked like to by larvae. I'm thinking about pulling it tonight, just because I don't want those things to get to the sac. What would you all do?

[Austin S. Spears]

New settup


Took a lil peek as well

[Nicola Dolby]

Austin thats brilliant! hope all goes well with the incubation. Save some of the pictures though, as Mary said this would make a brilliant Journal article. Well done!

[James Box]

good luck mate

[Colin D Wilson]

Well i was going to post and say i'd be tempted to pull it but it seems you've gone for it anyway.

Best of luck with this one mate. the eggs look clean and healthy to me so i think you're half way there.

Colin

[Austin S. Spears]

Here are a couple pictures of the settup of the incubator. The sac will remain inside until I see eggs with legs, then they will be dumped into coffee filters inside deli containers. Keep those fingers crossed! Not there yet! Guy, do you have any suggestions?

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Hi Austin!

Too much humidity looks to me and I tend to agree with Colin, I would pull the eggs too.

[Guy Tansley]

Agreed, way too much humidity - any chance of taking a reading from inside the spiders burrow and replicating that?

[Austin S. Spears]

Agreed, way too much humidity - any chance of taking a reading from inside the spiders burrow and replicating that?

She has started construction again, and now am unable to get to the spot where the sac was hanging from. I poured a lot of the water out and the humidity will go down in a little and I"ll get a reading. What should be the right hum. to keep them at? Something like 70-80%?

[Colin D Wilson]

Just popped a meter into my mated female Hesterocrates sp. chamber for a few minutes and it levelled out mid 70's for humidity.

[Tom Forman]

I would have said anything above 60% humidity will stop eggs drying out but I have only bred various Insects, not T's yet.
70% to be on the safe side but not much higher than that.

A too high humidity when breeding crickets and roaches can actually make the nymphs drown in the eggs. Again I would presums it to be the same with spider eggs.

It takes several days for this to happen though so as long as you drop the humidity to 70% they should all still be fine.

[Austin S. Spears]

I would have said anything above 60% humidity will stop eggs drying out but I have only bred various Insects, not T's yet.
70% to be on the safe side but not much higher than that.

A too high humidity when breeding crickets and roaches can actually make the nymphs drown in the eggs. Again I would presums it to be the same with spider eggs.

It takes several days for this to happen though so as long as you drop the humidity to 70% they should all still be fine.

I just got off work and the hum. dropped a lot. It is now at 76-80%. The temp is at 78 deg F. This should be fine, considering when the eggs were laid, the burrow was very humid. This species breeding season is during the rainy season in Africa, which means it is really hot, and the humidity in the female burrow is high as well.