19 June 2013

A second egg sac! She followed a similar pattern to before, eating voraciously and getting larger in girth after laying the first egg sac. She then stopped eating about 10 days before laying.

During the process she hung suspended upside down and holding onto a silk thread with her front legs. The other legs rotated the sac while she covered it with silk from her spinnerets.

As usual interesting things never happen on the weekend, but despite it being a work day I grabbed my 'proper' camera and got a few shots before heading of to work.

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That evening she had anchored the egg sac near the top of the tank close to where she had made it.

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You can just about make out the sac behind and below her in this photo.

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