Breeding Project :
Cruda X Flint Summer 2020
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Vitals
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Total Eggs:
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16
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Fertile Eggs:
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10
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Infertile Eggs:
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6
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Questionable:
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8
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Slugs:
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0
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Hatched:
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5
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Incubation:
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Artificial
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Date Laid:
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Date Hatched:
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Date Closed:
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1/4/2021
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Overview
Flint was paired only once to Cruda in the spring of 2020. I wanted to see if good crests could be bred into her brood so this was a test pairing as Flint has pretty decent cresting. If we got no babies with better cresting than hers she likely would be made a pet only female. Most of the resulting eggs have died during incubation despite being fertile. We believe this is because all of her eggs thus far have barely been calcified. We've upped her D3 and calcium intake but until she's done laying this year I don't expect it to help her eggs. So far only two eggs have hatched and the babies are thin but healthy and energetic. Two more are in the incubator as of 11/1/2020 but like the three other sets of eggs they might not make it. One of the 11/1 eggs molded and dimpled early in incubation and was thrown out. However the second egg made it and hatched on 1/4/2021. The baby seems a little weak, but looks healthy and absorbed all its yolk so hopefully it should be fine. Cruda stopped laying for months then all of the sudden we got fertile eggs from her again. These eggs were perfectly calcified. However the first two new sets of eggs while being perfect were infertiles.
The last set of eggs she laid were fertile strangely enough. During the candling session I accidentally dropped an egg onto thickly carpeted floor and hoped it would be fine. Both the last set of eggs hatched. One baby was perfectly fine and healthy, and one baby was a third the size of any geckos I've ever hatched. I assume this was the dropped egg baby. It was skeletal, could not walk on its front limbs but rather slid itself around, and had a prominent bulge at the umbilical area, and it was often gasping as if it could not breathe. The shoulder blades looked off in placement as if something were deformed, and it had zero muscle tone. I thought that baby would die in the first few days but I left it alone, giving the lowest possible areas for water and food so the baby could shuffle around them. It should be noted that I tried to measure this baby's weight on my gram scale and it did not even register. After two days I saw some excrement from the tiny baby and it was trying to use its front legs albeit the child could not go far before tiring out. I noticed that the umbilical bulge was worse and wondered whether it was infection or a hernia of some kind, and while checking the weak baby the third day it took a full on grand seizure in my hand. At this point I was going to cull it and let the tarantula finish the baby quickly but my roommate/family was so distraught about it fighting to live that I gave it another two days. That tiny weak baby has fattened up in those two days obviously eating the food left out and by today July 26th 2021 it is finally able to wobble walk on all four limbs. Since it is fighting so hard and I have not seen another seizure I will continue to care for and watch the progress of this baby. Photos will be taken today the 26th to compare the baby's current size with its same aged sibling and clutch mate. Cruda has not laid anymore eggs since that last batch. She'll have a long break until we find a dark male with good crests to pair her to.
This pairing did however prove that Cruda can produce large crests when paired to a good crested male. So she will be used for breeding in the future.
Events & Tracking
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Type
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Date
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2 fertile eggs laid
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Laid Eggs
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11/1/2020
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1st Good Clutch Hatched
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Eggs Hatched
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11/9/2020
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1 Egg Hatched
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Eggs Hatched
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1/4/2021
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Pair of fertile eggs
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Laid Eggs
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5/26/2021
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Cruda's last set of eggs hatched
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Eggs Hatched
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7/22/2021
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Breeding Photo Gallery
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