Hadogenes paucidens molts to 3rd instar

A while back I received 11 second-instar Hadogenes paucidens. Unfortunately, the majority died (I've heard that this species is difficult to rear from early instars), and I was left with only two. I checked on them today and discovered that one had finally molted to third instar!

This species is very slow-growing, so I'd been waiting quite a while on it.

Here's the pudgy sibling that I'm still waiting on:

Minor spider updates and observations

One of my two false-widows (Steatoda grossa) laid her fourth eggsac that I found today.

There was a huge gap between her first and second sacs. Then the third came before I even removed the second from her enclosure. Now that they've hatched out, there's a fourth.

The juvies in sacs numbers two and three are tag-teaming the two juvenile crickets I put in with each.

The one survivor from the first sac plumped up after having one this morning.

My sac-bearing Latrodectus geometricus attacked an old food bolus instead of the cricket I offered her today. Strange.

I'm feeding my four virgin L. hesperus today (two males, two females) and I'm going to try mating them over the weekend.

I fed my mated L. geometricus a good-sized cricket today. She plumped up considerably. I hope she starts dropping sacs soon (she's a pale morph, compared to the dark one that's already given me one sac).

Thought I'd share.

Cheers

Ultra-short U. mordax update

Four of the five I gave away have now been confirmed as dead.

Roughly half of the ten that I kept have now molted to third instar.