After laying her second egg sac, she resumed hunting and feeding again. On 20th July I decided to release her into my garden as she hadn't eaten for about a week and looked like she was getting ready to lay again. I didn't know if the conditions I was keeping her and the eggs sacs in were suitable for them to hatch, so thought I would let her lay the next one 'naturally' in my garden somewhere.

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.

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

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

I was expecting the female to stop eating and die after laying the egg sac, however today she spun a new net and was hunting and feeding again!

Note the reduced body size!

This morning I woke up to find her upside down and covering what I soon realised was an egg sac with silk! When I got home from work that evening she had moved it down to a twig near the bottom of the tank and anchored it down with silk.

A couple of videos that I grabbed with my phone - you can see in the second one that it is already changing colour from white to brown.