We thought we would share these pictures of our Haplopelma lividum nymphs.
As opinions on incubation differ, we thought we would share our experience.
The egg sack was laid on 8/03/07. We removed the egg sack on 1/04/07 when it was 24 days old.
We removed it bacause:
1. We have children in the house that could disturb the mother
2. Because bad eggs can spread to the good eggs and ruin the lot
Here is a photo of the egg sack partially opened on 1/04/07:
We took the decision to open the egg sack to remove any bad eggs. It turned out to be a good decision, because out of 193 eggs 175 were good and the bad eggs were already spreading to the good ones. The next picture was the result of the egg sack being opened. We placed them into a pot with dry kitchen roll on the base. We then placed that in a larger pot with very wet kitchen roll underneath to maintain high humidity. At this stage they hadn't hatched yet.
We regularly checked them and removed any bad eggs. The result was this!
Apologies for the picture quality!
Alex.
As opinions on incubation differ, we thought we would share our experience.
The egg sack was laid on 8/03/07. We removed the egg sack on 1/04/07 when it was 24 days old.
We removed it bacause:
1. We have children in the house that could disturb the mother
2. Because bad eggs can spread to the good eggs and ruin the lot
Here is a photo of the egg sack partially opened on 1/04/07:
We took the decision to open the egg sack to remove any bad eggs. It turned out to be a good decision, because out of 193 eggs 175 were good and the bad eggs were already spreading to the good ones. The next picture was the result of the egg sack being opened. We placed them into a pot with dry kitchen roll on the base. We then placed that in a larger pot with very wet kitchen roll underneath to maintain high humidity. At this stage they hadn't hatched yet.
We regularly checked them and removed any bad eggs. The result was this!
Apologies for the picture quality!
Alex.
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