breeding

[Mandy Willis]

Hello everyone is there anyone who has bred or attempted to breed Theraphosa Blondi i have found a mature male for my female and have been looking everywhere for info and a lot of spiders produce egg sacks and then the female eats them is there someone that has actually managed to get slings i have also read that incubating the sacks is one way but would like some advice if anyone can help. thanks mandy

[matthew spooner]

well the first thing to remember is to get them mating within the first month after the females moult otherwise you will lose the sac. never bred these myself but know people who have and they always remove the egg sac and incubate it to guarantee a nice lot of slings.

[simon player]

Hi mated my female with a male i had here all whent well exept the male fliking hair at me, my female made her egg sack and 3 days later it was gone.

simon

[mary walters]

Yes we had one last year, 2 days after we moved to this adress, she ate it as she laid it.

[Mandy Willis]

breeding

oh dear it doesnt sound to hopefull then but im going to try anyway my female moulted about 3 weeks ago so will wait a bit longer and see what happens thanks for your replys mandy

[Nicola Dolby]

Does this also apply to T. apophysis? I have one of these myself and although she's still relatively small (10cm legspan) I'd love to breed her when she's big enough

[Mandy Willis]

breeding

Hi nicola
there is a thread on arachnoboards showing the one you are asking about and the success of there breeding trouble is i have read so much my head is spinning from all the differant advice but am still going to give it a go i have waited such a long time to even get a blondi and am so excited at the thought of breeding all i can do is try mandy

[Chris Sainsbury]

Hi Mandy
PM me your email and I will let you know what worked for me in the end.

http://www.thebts.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=3188

well the first thing to remember is to get them mating within the first month after the females moult otherwise you will lose the sac

This btw is utter rubbish! Sorry but in my limited experince quite the oppersite is true. It doesn't depend on just one factor and there are a number of things that play a part in my honest oppinion.
Cheers
Chris

[matthew spooner]

This btw is utter rubbish! Sorry but in my limited experince quite the oppersite is true. It doesn't depend on just one factor and there are a number of things that play a part in my honest oppinion.
Cheers
Chris

sorry if this was false information, i am going by what i have been told, i have not bred this species yet. i was in the understanding that if a tarantula moulted whilst carrying a sac, she would lose that sac and as a t.blondi holds its sac for a year, common sense says that if you mated her more than a month after she has moulted, she will moult again before she lays her egg sac and the sac will be lost

[Chris Sainsbury]

Hi Mathew

I am not too sure what you mean? Do you mean moulted whilst carrying the sperm in the spermatheca?
Once an eggsac has been laid though it is not all that common that a tarantula will moult while looking after it and if it does there should be no reason why this would effect the eggsac if it is fertile.
Personly it is my oppinion that mating most tarantulas any earlier than 3 months after a moult makes the chances for an unfertile eggsac go higher. The reason for this is that the sperm will have to wait a lot longer in the spermatheca before it is used, as it takes time to produce those eggs so they are ready for laying. I do not think it is extreamly common for most tarantulas to produce an eggsac within 3 months after a moult although it does happen.
I will ask this though - how many matings have resulted in a fertile viable eggsac after one year since the last mating have you heard off for T. blondi? because I do not think it is that many.

I will leave it here as the well mind did remarks come in.
Cheers
Chris

[Tom Forman]

Hi Mathew

I will ask this though - how many matings have resulted in a fertile viable eggsac after one year since the last mating have you heard off for T. blondi? because I do not think it is that many.

Is this a typo? Sounds like you were a bit tired writing that one

[Chris Sainsbury]

Possibly. So I will try and ask again in a more understandable way.

How many successful eggsacs do you know off, that came from a T.blondi where the time span between mating and eggsac laying was 1 year?

Any better? But when I re-read what I first wrote it still kind of made sense so are you just hinting that you know of loads?

Cheers
Chris

[matthew spooner]

Possibly. So I will try and ask again in a more understandable way.

How many successful eggsacs do you know off, that came from a T.blondi where the time span between mating and eggsac laying was 1 year?

Any better? But when I re-read what I first wrote it still kind of made sense so are you just hinting that you know of loads?

Cheers
Chris

like i said chris, i have never mated this species, although it is a subject i have had many discussions about with various people in the past, this i the basic gist of what i am understanding.
when first introduced into the hobby, t.blondi were incredibly expensive as they were found to be hard to breed, and if you got a successful attemp then you were set to make quite a nice bit of cash, now they are as common as rain in england lol. it was found that the only way to get a successful mating was to do it within the first month after the female moults, due to the length of time that a t.blondi can go before laying her sac. if you dont do it within that month, chances are the female would moult before laying her sac and you would have to start again. but like i said, i have never bred this species and i am just going on advice from other people that do.

[Nicola Dolby]

Most of us here Chris would just like to see an egg sac, of any kind, for real. I got an E. vulpinus one about 18 months ago but they were all dead inside. I have never heard of a gravid female staying so for more than a few months. They usually moult after a time anyway.

[Chris Sainsbury]

To be honest Mathew I do not go by that at all and would honestly say hand on heart that this regarding the breeding of T. blondi is complete nonsence.
For one most spiderlings of T. blondi are captive bron as opose to captive bred. Have you ever noticed in the past that spiderlings appear along with the adult females around the febuary - March - April time of year? Yet many imports come in during Oct, Nov. (at least there and abouts these times).
There is good reason for this as many clever dealers will keep hold off the new imported wild caught adult females, to see if they lay an eggsac (why sell one when you can sell alot more). So when you buy these adult females the vast majority have infact done their eggsac for that year. This means another mating and all it produces is a moulted female even if it is in 7 months or even a years time.
You see what I mean?
Besides that from my own data of mating this species proves this not to be the case also.
I hope this explains my reasoning a little.
All the best
Chris