The vet and I decided not to do the PM. She had been frozen for awhile which affects the organs/tissues and said it may not be worth it. We talked about it and I agreed. He is prettty sure she was not gravid.
As for Kaiya's foot she is on antibiotics and I will bring her back next week. He is afraid she will probably lose the foot
I feel that for all my love and attention maybe I was a bad mommy after all. Very sad. The good news is that even if that does happen she may be fine. As it is she gets along quite well and is quite the hunter so I am hopeful.
When we got home I put her back in her home and she went right to sleep so I put out the lights a little early - she'd had a big day!
I read all the posts about the speculation on (female) pygmy mortality. Hard to say b/c of the different breeders and sources they came from, cb vs. wc, etc. It is interesting that they have all been females (I think). I just looked at AdCham's profile again on the brevi's and they say that fertilization from retained sperm does occur (did you know that some spiders, including black widow, can maintain sperm for years before they decide to fert and lay - just an interesting bit of min-beast trivia). That photo of the one that had 16 eggs is strange, huh?
The speculation re: food is interesting and probably possible but it would be so diffilcult to figure it out without controlled studies (not just us swapping stories! LOL!) and I sure don't know of anyone doing any.
As for what I feed/dust the feeders: The chams get both size ff and crickets to choose from - later their preference has been ff. They all get dusted with Montane FF =http://www.speakeasy.org/~dervish/herpnutrition/montanefruitfly.htm)
2-3x a week as recommended by Dr. Donoghue and the Kammers.
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