How to Care for Baby Pet Chaco Tarantula

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Once you've mated your tarantula, you want to make sure you feed her well. Give her a lot of food. This will help her create energy and produce a good batch of eggs. Now the egg sack will be produced in about four to twenty weeks, depending on the species. Now before the egg sack is actually produced, what she'll actually do she'll start doing some excessive webbing, getting ready for it to arrive. Now hopefully one morning, you'll wake up and she'll have the egg sack produced. Some species will carry it right underneath their body. During this period, you'll want to leave your tarantula alone. You don't want to feed her or go into her enclosure. Because if you bother her, she'll actually destroy the egg sack or she'll even actually eat the egg sack. So you want to give her as much privacy as possible and leave her alone. Now the egg sack, depending on temperatures, will hatch between four to sixteen weeks. Once the egg sack hatches you want to remove the babies. The nymphs should be left in the egg sack together and left until their first molt (until they shed). then you'll want to separate the babies. Be aware there is some cannibalism. Some babies will eventually eat smaller siblings. That's just the way it goes. When you remove the babies, and you separate them, you can use tiny little film canisters like this. 35 millimeters film canisters work great. Make sure you poke some holes in the top. You don't really need any substrate in there. You can a little bit of twig or a little bit of moss or something just for the spider to hang on to. You want to feed them very small food items. Fruit flies work very well, wingless fruit flies are available in the market. They're easy to breed. Small pin head crickets. You don't need to feed them that much. Just about once every two or three days. Once they get bigger, they can graduate to larger containers. Just make sure there's ventilation in the top.

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