I'm tarantula sitting for a friend this semester. It's a common kind of pet store tarantula (wooly or rose haired, I think) and I believe it's a female.
Recently, after having her in my room for a couple of weeks, she started webbing off one of her tubes to live in. I could just barely see inside and I noticed there was thick white stuff all over the floor.
Today, when I looked again, she was sitting in the middle of the tank atop this blob of white stuff. It kind of looked like half of a melted marshmallow. Her abdomen was shrunken by almost half of what it used to be (origingally about the size of a small walnut).
Is this an egg sac that she made? She hasn't been in contact with any males in the month that I've had her...but I don't know how long a tarantula goes between mating and laying her eggs.
Does anyone know what's going on?
2006-09-30 18:22:50 · 7 answers · asked by Jamie 4 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Definitely sounds like a she. You cannot tell for sure if the eggs are good or not since the time your roommate owned it is unknown. Females are known to lay eggs, whether fertile or not. After feeding the tarantula, be sure to remove any uneaten crickets from the cage after about an hour so the tarantula doesn't get stressed and so the crickets don't eat the egg sac. For every tarantula, the development time is different. If the tarantula is a rose hair, the carapace will be a beautiful dark pink coloration. If it is a woolly tarantula, it will be course hairs all over the body and legs. Whether the eggs are fertile or not, it does not hurt to lightly mist the tarantula's environment at least twice a week, especially during air conditioning and heating seasons. Just make sure the substrate is not overly moist to produce mold.
2006-09-30 20:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by kriend 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-26 06:14:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure, but it sounds pretty much like you
have a secret boy spider living in the house with
your friend's pet spider. The boy spider comes
to visit in the night and stays for a while singing
love songs to the female you are being paid to
take care of. In anticipation of the eventual moment
of joining (of the two spiders) your captive has
created a little love nest for the two of them.
2006-09-30 18:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She's gonna be a mommy... She may just be going thru the motions. Like Chickens, some critters make eggs whether they've mated or not, and she has to expel them from her body. So, she makes her little egg-sac and guards it with her life....
2006-09-30 18:29:27 · answer #4 · answered by Angela M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might be an egg sac like you suggested..google it and see if that's what it looks like.
2006-09-30 18:31:09 · answer #5 · answered by Almana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good spray with baygon should fix ya problem :)
2006-09-30 18:30:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just feeling broody
2006-09-30 18:43:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋