Private breeder feeder & pet exotic roaches. Residing in sunny S. Ca. This blog is all about my collection of various critters, past & present. You'll find care sheets, tutorials and various information on my former reptiles & current inverts.
Feeding video of my little 1 inch+ Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens “Green Bottle Blue” slings. There eating B. lateralis roaches. These C. cyaneopubescens have more than doubled there size in the last few weeks. They have been feeding really well and growing like weeds. Looking forward to there adult colorations
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Feeding video of my little 1 inch+ Brachypelma smithi slings. I managed to catch 4/7 catch there B. lateralis roaches. The others that didn’t eat either recently molted or were in pre-molt. Some pretty good tags. There starting to show there adult colors. Another molt or two and they’ll be looking good.
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This is an update to my Pterinochilus lugardi (Tanzanian Blonde Baboon) slings that hatched August 19th, 09. After separating and molting to 2i, I ended up with 39 active healthy little babies. There about 3/8″ now and some are eating. There climbing and webbing up there deli-cups.
When they hatched, there were between 80-90 babies. When I went to separate them into deli cups (1st instar), I noticed bout 25 or so had died in the original enclosure they hatched out in. A few days after separating, I lost another 21. I don’t know the reason. They just swelled and died. Everything was right from what I have read and viewed on breeding and rearing slings.
The whole process was awkward from the beginning. Most breeders pull there sacs at around 25 days. I think because I had kept the mothers environment somewhat moist because of the eggs, along with high temps caused the eggs to hatch early, approx. 20 days.
I never pulled the sac, instead pull mom. Made sure the substrate was moist for high humidity. When I separated is when I noticed most of the dead had got stuck under the substrate and webbing. One interesting thing I noticed is that when they are 1st instar, they can’t climb very well if at all and they don’t start eating or webbing until 2i.
I raised many slings before, but this is a 1st from egg. I always planned on breeding tarantulas in a few years, but this female P. lugardi was shipped gravid, possibly unknown to the seller. It’s been a great learning experience.
If I have any left after existing requested orders, I will post them on my website here. If you have any questions regarding my experience with raising slings from eggs, comment and I’ll help where I can.
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My female Acanthoscurria geniculata was freshly molted and hungry.
Brachypelma sabulosum also freshly molted.
My 5″ female Grammostola rosea is usually a good eater.
Hysterocrates gigas is an interesting species. She didn’t show off much in the video, but did manage to catch a few B. lateralis roaches. She is getting big. She was only 1″ seven months ago and now is about 3″.
Two of my Lasiodora parahybana performed well. These are my little pigs. I originally bought three slings about a 1½” and in 8 months they have grown to over 4″. Out of three, two have molted out male.
Nhandus chromatus is also a recent molt and looking beautiful. She will be gorgeous when she is full grown.
Aphonopelma seemani recently molted and grew back her third leg on the left side. Look at it in the video and you’ll see it’s slightly smaller than the rest. It should be fully developed after her next molt.
Brachypelma vagans is another voracious eater. She rarely refuses food.
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