N. incei communal? Thoughts?

[Dustin Amack]

Question for anyone who has kept a N. incei communal. I currently have one and I love it. My question is two-fold. firstly, I have read and heard that it is possible for an olive form incei to produce gold form in their sac. Has anyone else ever heard this, and/or had this happen to them? Secondly, upon hearing this, the thought came to me that maybe it is possible to have both gold and olive form living together in the same communal set up. Any thoughts on this? I currently only have N. incei olive form but if it is a possibility to add gold I would consider it, however not without research and wisdom from my fellow keepers. Thanks in advance!

 

[MassExodus]

The golds are indeed from the same sacs as the olives. I had a colony of ten living fat and peacefully, they're great spiders. Unfortunately I made a grave mistake, and they died, along with around twenty other spiders in my collection. I'm still traumatized by it. I'm also a firm believer that dks is caused by poisoning(flea and tick medication).

 

[Dustin Amack]

The golds are indeed from the same sacs as the olives. I had a colony of ten living fat and peacefully, they're great spiders. Unfortunately I made a grave mistake, and they died, along with around twenty other spiders in my collection. I'm still traumatized by it. I'm also a firm believer that dks is caused by poisoning(flea and tick medication).

Oh man, sorry to hear that So you had both olive and gold coexisting? I kinda thought it was a myth that gold can come form the same sac... lol Thank you for chiming in!

 

[TheVez2]

I had a colony of them that I started about 5 years ago. I started with 5 olive spiderlings. A while later I had babies, ad I'm assuming form just one pairing. Had about 40 babies, and about 10 of them were golds.

But I lost the colony a year later.

 

[Dustin Amack]

Nice! Thanks for the info. While we're on the subject... Is it ok to house N. incei of different sizes together? My main communal is all roughly 1" in size and I recently acquired 3 new little slings. Should I not add them to the commune to avoid deaths as well as to make it easier to feed etc.?

 

[WolfSpider]

Nice! Thanks for the info. While we're on the subject... Is it ok to house N. incei of different sizes together? My main communal is all roughly 1" in size and I recently acquired 3 new little slings. Should I not add them to the commune to avoid deaths as well as to make it easier to feed etc.?

I never kept a communal, but I have heard from other keepers that different sizes can produce cannibalism. @Arachnoclown @Casey K. Any thoughts?

 

[Arachnoclown]

This guy keeps all different sizes without any problems...

 

[Arachnoclown]

I'm not sure myself...About 20 years ago I had two A. avicularia pinktoes in the same enclosure. They did fine together eventually both dying of old age. That's all the experience I have at communal Tarantulas. I've been thinking of doing a pokie communal this year when I breed a few of my females.

 

[Dustin Amack]

This guy keeps all different sizes without any problems...

DAMN!

 

[Dustin Amack]

Do it! Ive really enjoyed the incei communal. I jsut feed often to combat any canimablism, so far so good. I my let my sling get a little size to them beore I introduce them to the others.

 

[WolfSpider]

This guy keeps all different sizes without any problems...

Wow! That guy has cajones!! Still not sure about N. Iincei though. Who would have thought that 20 pokies could co-exist in essentially a Jamie’s large arboreal set up.. Thanks for sharing.