Bad news for the Pamphobeteus female, she's been making the spinning behaviour for eggsac construction since yesterday but her spinnerets seem obstructed and she can't actually spin silk. I had to make the attempt to clean her butt with a moist brush and then with a moist swab with alcohol. Even after disturbing the spider like this, she's again calm in her retreat doing the same eggscac construction behaviour but still failing to produce silk apparently... maybe there's something wrong with silk glands or other stuff from last molt, I really didn't see this before. I had spider's drop eggs without previous silk, but I don't recall this exact behaviour (as she's doing everything normal but without silk!). I no longer fear for the sac (which I see it's not going good at all), but the health of the spider...maybe she'll drop the eggs anyway. This whole situation is very estrange
This female is very fertile and produced a large sac with 150 spiderlings last year. At that time she was mated in the wild. This time she mated perfectly in captivity and everything looked perfect for a sac soon.
Here are some pics a few days ago. Before she dug into the retreat to attempt sac construction:
Anyone had anything like this happened before??? Any advice?
Cheers,
Pato
This female is very fertile and produced a large sac with 150 spiderlings last year. At that time she was mated in the wild. This time she mated perfectly in captivity and everything looked perfect for a sac soon.
Here are some pics a few days ago. Before she dug into the retreat to attempt sac construction:
Anyone had anything like this happened before??? Any advice?
Cheers,
Pato
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