Well the terrifying moment is upon me, the spiderlings are stirring! A few have emerged from the sac and have already built tiny webs and are waiting to feed. I am going to wait until the rest of the spiderlings emerge from the sac before introducing any prey items.
Here are the stats:
-Egg sac constructed on January 29, 2004
-Egg sac removed from the female on February 4, 2004
-Artificial incubation at a temperature range of 69.6-80.4ºC
-Spiderlings emerging on March 5, 2004 (after 35 days)
Here are some pics:
Female with egg sac prior to separation.
Female with another egg sac prior to separation.
Egg sac and spiderling.
Spiderling closeup.
A couple of spiderlings with a 1/8" cricket (I wanted to see if they would eat, apparently they will....).
A couple of larger spiderlings (sorry about the pics but these suckers are less than 1mm and I am shooting through thick glass - not bad then, considering).
Just some pictures of the female.
Enjoy!
Let me know what you think....
Cheers,
Ryan
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