Hi all,
I attempted my first ever breeding yesterday. I paired a mature male with my adult female. The day after i bought him i notices a sperm web in his tank and he wouldnt settle. Put both tanks on the floor and ushered the male into the females enclosure. She was deep in her burrow as always. He didnt seem interested at first and just wanted to escape whenever i prodded him towards the females silk. Immediately on touching the silk he started shaking and waving his front legs and tapping them on the entrance to the burrow. The female was non responsive so he went deeper into hells mouth. There he carried on shaking and tapping and all of a sudden the female appeared. She was so calm i was amazed. They proceeded to mate for around 3 minutes. She never left the hole of the burrow. He eventually managed to get beneath her and managed a couple of insertions. He came back up but then went back down and definately had a number of good insertions. At that point the female was getting anxious as his spurs were holding her fangs and she didnt like it. He made a quick escape and was put back in his tank. I got it all on video and is an amazing view.
Does anyone have any notes or reccomendations on how long it takes for this species to produce a sac? Also are there any conditioning routines i need to follow such as temp/humidity? Iv searched on the web and theres too much conflicting info.
Im going to try the male again in a weeks time just to make sure. And ill start feeding her up just in case.
Any informed info will be well appreciated..
Thanks
I attempted my first ever breeding yesterday. I paired a mature male with my adult female. The day after i bought him i notices a sperm web in his tank and he wouldnt settle. Put both tanks on the floor and ushered the male into the females enclosure. She was deep in her burrow as always. He didnt seem interested at first and just wanted to escape whenever i prodded him towards the females silk. Immediately on touching the silk he started shaking and waving his front legs and tapping them on the entrance to the burrow. The female was non responsive so he went deeper into hells mouth. There he carried on shaking and tapping and all of a sudden the female appeared. She was so calm i was amazed. They proceeded to mate for around 3 minutes. She never left the hole of the burrow. He eventually managed to get beneath her and managed a couple of insertions. He came back up but then went back down and definately had a number of good insertions. At that point the female was getting anxious as his spurs were holding her fangs and she didnt like it. He made a quick escape and was put back in his tank. I got it all on video and is an amazing view.
Does anyone have any notes or reccomendations on how long it takes for this species to produce a sac? Also are there any conditioning routines i need to follow such as temp/humidity? Iv searched on the web and theres too much conflicting info.
Im going to try the male again in a weeks time just to make sure. And ill start feeding her up just in case.
Any informed info will be well appreciated..
Thanks
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