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What should I do?! Help!

rotate them as much as possible, you don't want the eggs to clump together. You could have left the sack with mom then take it away in 30 days, a rosea sack shouldn't have hatched before then.
 
I have a question. How could the female have fertile eggs? When would she have ever been in contact with a male, if CB? I can understand Steve having retained sperm from when she was wild and free, but a pet animal??
 
99% of adult rosea's from a pet store are WC and its not uncommon for them to drop a fertile sack. They can retain sperm until they molt which for a adult T can be a year or longer.
 
At 30 days you can can dump them from the sack into a rearing container, they should hatch fairly soon but it may take a couple more weeks.
You need to get more pictures of the eggs in two weeks so we can determine if they are even fertile.
 
Nanci said:
I have a question. How could the female have fertile eggs? When would she have ever been in contact with a male, if CB? I can understand Steve having retained sperm from when she was wild and free, but a pet animal??
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I purchased her from a pet store... so she could be WC. I didn't ask, she was there for a couple of weeks, and she looked very healthy.

Right now, I'm going to walk to the store and ask them about her.
 
waldo said:
At 30 days you can can dump them from the sack into a rearing container, they should hatch fairly soon but it may take a couple more weeks.
You need to get more pictures of the eggs in two weeks so we can determine if they are even fertile.
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Rearing container? Should I separate them after they hatch? If so, when?
 
I went on the American Tarantula Society forum and searched around... So, looks like she laid an average clutch (around 200 eggs). They said that at about 55-70 days I should have little spiderlings- if the eggs are fertile. Based on what they said I'm doing everything right so now I have to wait.

I checked on the eggs and is it normal for there to be little bubbles or something inside of them?

Oh, and if I had to guess the eggs are about a week to a week and a half old... I'm not certain of the exact date she laid the eggs...
 
waldo said:
99% of adult rosea's from a pet store are WC and its not uncommon for them to drop a fertile sack. They can retain sperm until they molt which for a adult T can be a year or longer.
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I don't know much about spiders but this quote is right on the money! I had the same experience about 10 years ago....but they were infertile eggs.

Good luck!
 
The spiderlings can live together until their second molt, then they will need to be seperated. You will have to get alot of little pill bottles or condiment cups.
 
Ok, thanks. So, are the little bubble things inside the eggs normal?

I just came back from the pet store and... nothing. The manager says that he is confident that the tarantula is CB and that he doesn't know if she was ever housed with a male. I asked if there was some way I could contact the breeder and ask him myself, and he said that he can't give out the guys phone number and contact info.
I did get a very good tarantula book, though.
 
Yes the bubbles are normal.
Of course they guy said it was CB, he doesn't know any better and I seriously doubt the dealer would either. At this point it doesn't really matter, you will know in a couple weeks if the eggs are good.
 
About 20-30 eggs have died... I think- maybe more. I set them up in a little "incubator" and separated them all from each other.
I think they are fertile... I'm seeing the inside of the eggs change.. I'm not sure how to describe it but they are different from the day I discovered them. I'm hoping they will hatch!
 
SnakesRule1234 said:
About 20-30 eggs have died... I think- maybe more. I set them up in a little "incubator" and separated them all from each other.
I think they are fertile... I'm seeing the inside of the eggs change.. I'm not sure how to describe it but they are different from the day I discovered them. I'm hoping they will hatch!
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How do you know some eggs have died?
 
They either popped, or have dried out. They are very delicate...

I counted them and only 87 survived... Kind of a good thing, kind of not, I guess.

The mum is doing great, she looks much healthier now...
 
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