hehe yeah i enjoy them!! well this is gonna be my first breeding attempt so we'll have to see! usually you just put the male in with the female and they do a bit of drumming and a courtship dance and then they converge on each other and hopefully the male gets tha job done without ending up as a meal! with this species ( A. avic) they have been found to be nearly communal so i plan on just tossing him in there and see what happens. if they seem cool then i'll leave him in there to make sure he gets the job done! darcie, you are correct in that the males only live to their ultimate molt (adulthood) and then their only inpulse is to mate and they eventually die in a few months or so. Determining the sling's sex cannot be done untill they are around 2 inches or so. this can be done via a shed skin or by examining an area on its underside between the 2 body segments. and superimposedhope is correct in that adult versicolors make A. avics look lame and a half!! lol enough ramblings!!![b said:Quote[/b] (Darcie @ July 12 2004,5:07)]Oh wow Doug! I haven't seen any of your invertibrits pictures before, she is beautiful! I have never seen one like that before! I have to ask, how do you go about breeding them? Are they like some of the other bird eating spiders were the males only live a little while? And also can you tell a spiderlings gender right away or only after a little while? I can't get one or anything right now, but I've always wonderd about these things.
SIH, congrats on getting some cool spiderlings