Strange season so far..

[tonychi01]

I had a 1700 gram female strike and wrap up my 600 gram bumble bee releasing it immediately after doing so. A albino spider that eats while in shed and breeds at 400 grams. A spider that knocked up 3 females on the first try. A female that insists on coming out of her bin and eats while suspended from the rack(I think she is part GTP). Anyone else have any strange stories?

 

[Kiote_9]

I have an adult male jungle-corn that will only eat one mouse every three weeks but constantly hunts. He ate just fine until two months ago.

The female jungle-corn is the exact opposite. Give her three hoppers and she strikes at everything looking for more. I fed her an adult mouse yesterday, took her forever to get it down and it left a rather large lump in her, and she still kept looking for more.

Everything else eats just fine, except the new baby balls that only want live but I don't expect anything different from them. I got the female to take a f/t mouse once. Someday they will switch.

 

[Diego Velarde]

What was the Bee's reaction to that?
I can almost picture it... Bee:"F..k this...I'm not that desperate..." lol

 

[tonychi01]

Yea I freaked out! I was introducing them slow and once he started to move her head came up and BAM! She let go right after she wrapped him and both were like what the ***K. Mistaken identity I guess. He was fine just shook up but I don't think I'll be leaving anything under 1000 grams in her tub overnight...

 

[Cat_72]

I had my a female kill a male that way, or at least I'm assuming. Introduced them, all seemed fine....he was dead the next day, his neck bent all funny and twisty. He was about 800g, she's around 2000, I believe. She has been off food for quite awhile, he had still been eating, but hadn't fed for 3-4 days....so I wouldn't think it was an actual feeding response that did it....but who knows.

Just another in a long line of mishaps I've been having....I'm not breeding many this year. Haven't seen a lot of action from those I've been breeding (or trying to), either. The way the economy has been, I don't want to sit on a whole load of babies that don't sell....so just going to breed a select few, and wait on the rest til next year.

That albino spider dude is very pretty, btw!

 

[tonychi01]

That's ashame that happens. I'm glad I watch their reactions when I introduce a pair. Thanks on the albino spider, he's a screamer!

 

[Cat_72]

Yeah, it was a real bummer...he was one of my very favorite boys. They seemed just fine when I put them together...but apparently not.

 

[garweft]

I had a pair of milks once that were locked up while the female had the first 2-3" of the male down her throat. That was kinda shocking to see, even more shocking was that he survived.

 

[tonychi01]

wow!!

 

[tonychi01]

This guy doesn't miss! And to think I almost sold him like 100 times....I actually almost sold my whole collection but I'm glad I stuck around.

 

[tonychi01]

...and this is the GTP Ball at it again..

 

[tonychi01]

..just for the record for anyone that doesn't understand the joke, this is not a hybrid, lol...