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second photo of hatchling...

Will,
Thanks for posting the pic. The little guy/girl looks great. Hopefully this is the first of many planicauda hatchlings!!
Chad

Congratulations!

That's a pretty sight.

What were your incubation temps and # of days?

Dan

How's it going Dan. I'm guessing that you are the Dan P who produced the plani baby I saw pics of here a week or so ago. Congratulations to you as well. I run the planicauda egggs through the same routine as the other spiders which goes...
8 weeks warm-82-84
8 weeks cool-68-70
then back warm again for as long as it takes. I found this egg in the enclosure on 10/1/03 so that makes 240 days. I'm pretty excited as this is the first planicauda that has hatched here and it is the last of the 4 Pyxis to hatch for me. I have another egg that I found on the same day and has gone through the same motions as the one that just hatched but it hasn't shown any hatch activity yet. I'll keep all posted with new pics of this guy as well as anybody else who hatches...

If you'd make those photos smaller.

They're GREAT shots, but they simply don't need to be that big.

I'm not sure how to do it...

( around 320 x 240 pixels should work.)
Congratulations on the new torts!

Regardless of your graphics manipulation program, I strongly recommend IrfanView!!! IrfanView is a FREEware program that is fast, nimble, and most competent at various graphic re-sizing and reformatting functions.
[www.irfanview.com] Get the plug-ins too! Even though I have PaintShop Pro (~$80) and Adobe's Photoshop (~$600), I prefer IrfanView for most of my graphic work!!!
With photo opened in IrfanView, select "Image" from menu bar, "Resize/Resample," (I accept the default of "Resample" for better quality), then try a couple of settings to reduce the size of your lovely hatchling!
Changing the format from tiff to jpg is a simple "save as."
HTH!
Pat

Link

I prefer WillA to post the pics as he does.

Just save the pics in your computer and resize them or whatever to see them as you like. Besides, with the Windows viewer you can see them perfectly well without doing anything.

That's just my opinion!!!

Will A, Congragulations from Spain!!!

Will -

It's going pretty well here. The only one I lack is arachnoides arachnoides. I had one infertile egg last year and one good looking egg this year. But it went through 2 cool cycles and showed a red streak (not a blood ring with embryo like the others did after 1 cool cycle) which has not changed much. I am a bit mystified since all my fertile eggs have developed and hatched pretty much the same way. This one is just not following the rules. I'm trying for a third cool cycle, but it's a bit too warm here to get it down low enough.

I've got 2 more brygooi due in a couple of weeks. I've gotten 1 egg each year for the past 2 years from my female planicauda, and both have hatched. I use a fluctuating temp incubator for my Pyxis and Malacochersus. All the spiders have hatched perfectly, but both planicaudas and one of my pancakes have a split scute. My temps last year were 79 night/ 89 day. I backed that off to 78/88 this year. The pancakes and spiders all have perfect shells, but the planicauda still split a scute. The good news is that if they are TSD, I should have females, and we at least know what is too hot for a planicauda. I guess next year I will dial it back to 87 during the day.

Take care,
Dan