Breeding Tarantulas 101

Things you should know about breeding your tarantulas. These are basic fundamentals that have been passed on to me or I have learned through experience and researching.

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[nicholasstrano]

You put a lot of care into your teaching and it shows, you are an amazing person and I will always watch your videos. Heck, you’re even the perfect videos for my daughters to watch and learn about different species and care for them and overall understanding.

[Violet-Lily]

Wait....science is an 'afterthought' subject?! Think I've spotted where the education system is failing! Great video as usual!

[fishmut]

Have to say it’s been educational for me in my older life, I have reptiles pythons and dragons etc but spiders not yet. I’m certainly more wiser for when I do decide on get a tarantula. Awesome video, thanks.👍

[carlap]

That drumming on the glass was the cutest!!

[creepycritterkaden]

I don't see any reason this video shouldn't have a million views! Subscribed! This channel has got to be one of the best!

[klaskristian]

Good introduction into breeding. You coverd most of it. In most of my pairings, females did not eat much between mating and eggsack laying.

Another thing is that diffrent speicies, males and females can cohibit for diffrent long timeperiods . When i bred P murinus i left the male in with the female for weeks. It always was no problems. They could mate when they felt like it and was not forced too. The male always survived and i found new spermwebs in the females cage! If i would i could be retriewd after some weeks, but of course i had in mind that it could be eaten.
Another thing is that it is more important for the female to have a well desiged cage with a burrow and deep substrate. Its always important with a deep sub and retreat, but after mating is extra important. This increase the chance for her to build a sucessfull sac IMO, and that you some time vefore egglaying mousten the substrate so humidety increase and eggsack does not dry out. In nature they often laying egg in conjunction to wet-seasons. It us also important after egglaying to disturb them as less as possible. Dont feed the female if she has a eggsack. It will only disturb her. They mist likely will not hunt while they carry eggsack. If they eat the sack it has nothing to do with that female is hungry.
It is also important to give some speicies like Some Brachypelma a cooling periods after mating.
This is some advises i could come up with

[dprimer]

Thanks Alex,
Good to see you back, sounds like you have been busy. Great video, lots of good info.
keep it up and stay safe.

[tarantulamum]

15:03 Alex prods spider
spider: ill go when I'm ready whats the rush 🤣🕷

[sniffanyB]

I've been wanting a video like this. I'm not anywhere near ready to attempt to breed but glad I have this video for when I'm ready. Thanks!!

[negronjr]

Damn, Alex! You have gotten better and better in a short period of time. Thanks for passing down all the knowledge. You are appreciated.

[memoriesofviolet]

Great video and information on breeding!Thanks for adding my guys at the end!

[Gettinbentfishing]

Awesome video, great to see you back at it. Hopefully school wont slow the vids down. Good luck in your new room👍

[ethanmccormack]

Honestly an amazing video, filled with so much helpful information but not to much it overload people, definitely a video I will come back to repeatedly for reference. How I wish I had a teacher like you when I was in school many moons ago.

[BethanyBookworm]

Great video 😊 definitely think it’s important to consider what you will do with slings if you get a sac. It’s commonly an afterthought and people get a shock when they’re stuck with hundreds of slings!!

[ophiophile]

Best video on breeding i've seen as of yet. Amazingly done!

[debbiiletchworth]

Totally Awesome video, it really helps a lot!!!

[theresaklassendyck]

Amazing video! Especially the first part about being responsible in breeding is so important! ☺️ Thank you! Greetings from Germany!

[PETROCK-NROLL]

Excellent video Alex! Fully agree with every point you you covered! Loved the footage you inserted at every point too! You fully had me griped throughout the entire video! 💜💜

[tikamcdonald]

EXCELLENT VIDEO!! That was the best & most informational video I’ve ever found! ❤️

[imranaboo]

Wow this is a very comprehensive and well put together video just what I was after thanks.