MAteing Avicularia purpurea

[Graeme Wright]

1st of the male which I received today.





I decided to mate them since the male seamed eager to go and was drumming when I put him nest to the fems tank so I popped him in

In he goes



The females started drumming back immediately as soon as I put him in and came up to the top to investigate.



She was still drumming like mad. They crawled about for a little bit till the male was underneath her.



Then he lifter her up.



He got two good insertions.



Then time to leave.



I'll keep regular notes as this is one I wouldn't mind pulling off.

[Howard Farley (Huk7)]

Looking good!!!

Fingers crossed and all that, keep us posted.

[Mark Pennell]

GW
On both occasions that I bred A, purpurea I had an eggs with in 3 weeks and the succesfull sac hatch 3 weeks later with 93 young, best of luck with these as they are one on the nicest Avics!

Regards
Mark

[Graeme Wright]

GW
On both occasions that I bred A, purpurea I had an eggs with in 3 weeks and the succesfull sac hatch 3 weeks later with 93 young, best of luck with these as they are one on the nicest Avics!

Regards
Mark

Cheers don't have any femals do you ?

[Mark Pennell]

[/quote]Cheers don't have any femals do you ?[/quote]

GW
No sorry I don't, its been at least 9 years since I kept A, purpurea when I bred them I had a lot of trouble trying to selll them as no one new what they were. I did sell all of them in the end at the BTS expo to Byrant Capiz (deceased).

Anyway best of luck with them.

Cheers
Mark

[Graeme Wright]

ok cheers anyway

[sarah Smith]

gary i have a female arriving on wensday but unforntunately i dont have the date of her last moult.

[Graeme Wright]

gary i have a female arriving on wensday but unforntunately i dont have the date of her last moult.

It's Graeme LOL

Anyway there is only one person who has asked for a loan so when he is done it's your if you need it.

Please email me

[Neil Richardson]

As Sarah's other half, i have to say that it's not going to be arriving at us this week now Would have to give it time to settle in as well, but we'll drop you an email in a few weeks to borrow the male if that's okay?

[Graeme Wright]

ok someone eles has it before you's though

[sarah Smith]

fair enough lets just hope he manages to survire as avic mattings can be notorious from what i have read.

[Graeme Wright]

fair enough lets just hope he manages to survire as avic mattings can be notorious from what i have read.

What do you mean.

Avics are easy to mate and usually get on well together most avicularia can be kept comunally.

none of the avics have I have have ever shown any aggresion towards males and have lived happly together in teh same tanks for weeks

[Neil Richardson]

I thought purpurea were hard to raise from slings. I think that's what sarah was getting at.

[edit]Oh, i just read it..

We saw an article in one journal for an avic mating, the female darted around when no one was expecting it and ate him. [/edit]

[Graeme Wright]

I thought purpurea were hard to raise from slings. I think that's what sarah was getting at.

[edit]Oh, i just read it..

We saw an article in one journal for an avic mating, the female darted around when no one was expecting it and ate him. [/edit]

Well I guess that goes for any species there is allways the chance a male will get eaten.


A purp slings imo are no more difficult to rear then every other avic sling

[Neil Richardson]

Oh okay, i was mis-informed.


We'll be in touch once we have our female and have it settled in.

How long after a moult can you leave it and still mate a female?? I'll see if i can get a moult date from Mark when i speak to him. This will be our first attempt at mating.