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About 3 hours after the first 4 appeared another 10 emerged. Now almost 24 hrs later and no additional activity. The egg case looks good and is about the size of a marshmallow. The babies appear healthy and active.

I was fortunate this morning and was able to watch for the first time 4 T. sinensis emerge from an ooth which has been in incubation for 5 weeks. I was anticipating a mass emergence and a much smaller nymph. There have been no additional appearances for a couple of hours. Wow, my wife will kill...

Thanks for the welcome. I didn't mean to mislead, although I have found brown tarantulas while vacationing my B. smithi was a purchased sling, not wild caught as T's are not indigenous to my locale. I've had her for 5 years. It has been a slow process but fun watching her grow from smaller than...

Just wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I've been keeping wild caught insects and arachnids for about 6 years. With the exception of a Brachypelma smithi, I usually release all after a few weeks of observation. Over the last couple of years my interest in mantids has grown though I've not...