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Breeding

Breeding part I

These day when buying spiders we think about keeping it just as a pet but some do think about breeding them.  When it comes to buying the spider and its of young age the sex cannot be determined because both males and females look the same while they are still immature it's only later in life we can tell the sex apart.  The male sexual organs don't become effective until there final shed.

Beginners of spider breeding: trust me you are very unlikely to get the breeding right first time so my advice would be, try with common house spiders and garden spiders and to tell the sex of mature garden spiders the males have bigger palps.  A sexually active male will have the larger palps and to start them breeding you need to introduce the male slowly so the male has time to do the courting procedure, if the female excepts him then they should start to mate and when they finished the male becomes a lovely meal.  The reason you should try this on common garden spiders is because the courting is the most dangerous part of its life and often result in lose of body parts OR death.  Another trick would to feed the female before  entering the male as she might not eat the male.

Once you have managed to breed the common spiders successfully and got the experience you can start with other types the ones you pay for.  When you get your spider and it's young the telling part could still be difficult so best to ask the shop keeper if your not sure, your most likely to be able to tell if the male is in its final stage were the fangs and palps get bigger this part is called the final moult and all the organs and sexual organs becomes bigger and they are referred to as "sexually mature".

note: when buying spiders try not to go for spiders too young as they are very hard to keep, your best bet is to go for a teenager. 

breeding part II

To keep a male and female for breeding you must follow some simple rules and they are: They must be kept apart at all times and you need a big area for the breeding maybe a box they can have a divider and start off with the female in the box so she can make her web and claim it as hers and after a few days put the divider in and add the male in the box, he will find her sent and hopefully her web and start courting and plucking the threads this could go on for hours so be patient and all you need to do is pull out the male if he gets attacked, be careful you don't get bitten or hairs flicking at you so try wearing gloves and glasses/goggles.  This should be the last result as it might have the effect of not breeding again that year, the other time you should take the male away is after sex as a lot of females will go DINNER.


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