#vagan

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Lapis molted and she's beautiful!

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A Mexican Red Rump tarantula (Tliltocatl vagans) in Central America

by didyeah.

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I found a mini greenhouse for $4, so Scooby got a new enclosure :3

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IT’S HAPPENING!

Forgive me the dead plant I left inside (it died/dried up when I was on vacation/banished from home for over a month at the end of last year due to renovations).

What matters is that the Tliltocatl vagans female has dropped an egg sac!

FINALLY!

Now. To provide a bit more detail on this:

I’ve bought a male in summer 2022 and he matured around the end of August with the female molting about a month earlier (hard to tell she spends a lot of time underground).

I’ve attempted to pair them at the end of September and failed (the female retreated and remained unresponsive and I didn’t allow the male to wander into her burrow as he wasn’t drumming either).

A week later I attempted to pair them again and this time it all went perfectly with the male surviving.

From there I fed the female generously until she closed her burrow and disappeared later in October.

Unfortunately the male also died around that time for unknown reasons (I wasn’t around due to vacation time and by the time I returned he was already dead).

I waited patiently - regaining access to my place for good in late November I started to water her enclosure every two to three weeks depending on the state of the substrate - doing so carefully not to disturb her and not to collapse the burrow.

To my surprise the female emerged a bit over a week ago - around 10th of May. No egg sac at that time.

While I was kinda disappointed I noticed she was seriously FAT and she refused food when offered. I took the chance and watered her enclosure again - generously this time, soaking nearly half of the substrate on one side of the enclosure.

She remained outside until Saturday - at that time she did some excavating, webbed up the entrances the the hide and disappeared again.

Lo and behold! This morning I’ve found her as you can see in this photo.

Please note the absurdly deflated abdomen.

I’ve watered again today - causing her to retreat back to the hide.

Now we need to wait 30 days and hope she’ll take a good care of that sac.

[kirstielol]

so my tliltocatl vagans sling died today :( but ok i wanted to make a post about how odd the circumstances are..

how old would you guess this tarantula is? would you be surprised to find out that it was almost two years old?

i got this sling at an expo in early 2021.. and it just never got any bigger?? i feed my slings weekly, usually a pre-killed insect that's either similar in size or bigger than the sling itself. i have over 30 tarantulas, i've raised most of them from slings, and i've never had one just... not grow? i've had slings grow up and mature out in the time i've had this guy.

a little over a month ago i posted those top two pictures on reddit and asked the tarantula keeper community on there what was going on and what i should do. basically everyone just said to feed it more often, so i did, i upped to feeding it twice a week. someone on reddit also pointed out that its abdomen looked small, even though i had fed it the day before taking those pictures.

and so today i went to check on him, and saw he was in a death curl. no clue what happened.. maybe an internal defect that it had since birth that prevented it from growing somehow? it's abdomen never looked full despite feeding it huge prey items regularly. honestly i'm surprised the little guy lived for almost 2 years.

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Yeah so uh

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He is sitting

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I love raising tarantulas look how teeny it was 😭