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I see plenty of adult T. gracilis, presumably wild caught. How common are CB individuals?

Not very. At one point I was thinking about buying one, and I wanted to get a CB hatchling. In about 3 months of searching, I couldn't find any. I think a week or two ago someone on the classifieds had some CB Novaeguineae, though. If you do find a breeder, be sure to post on the forum. It would be great to hear about it.

Reason I'm asking is because I actually just hatched an egg, and got another cooking. Is there just not a lot of people trying? Or is it difficult to do? I'm thinking more along the lines of the first option because I didn't find i that hard.

As for breeders, I think there's someone in Canada who regularly produces them (I'm in the US), I'll see if I can find the link again.

Congrats on breeding them. I think you're right about why there aren't many CB. From what I've read, it's not that hard to do, but why bother when there's a steady supply of imported ones. Some day when I've got the right conditions, I'd like to get a few. But keeping the humidity high during Chicago winters is pretty tough.

Well I have bred them several times and actually I have one cooking as well. Antoher friend of mine breeds them too and he also has a nice breeding group of T. novaguinea.

My own breeding group consists of 3.5.3 T. gracilis. They start breeding after a few years in captivity, I had my first egg after 3/4 years! So you need to be patient.