Hello there. Tonight is feeding night. So far I have fed about 10, and so far, no one seems interested or hungry. I just opened a container to feed another and found the inhabitant to be alive but rather rigid and twitching...almost as if it was convulsing.

You will have to excuse the chunk of cricket hat was intended to be food. . I can only put it back and wait til tomorrow. I assume it is dying...reason of course is unknown. I took some pictures, unfortunately the camcorder on my phone  cannot record a good image as it is too small and too close up. Here are some pictures of the dying baby that was twitching.


So far, I have noticed that very few of the babies have even attempted to burrow. Only about 6 of them have burrowed at all, which may be a clue(duh) as to why they lay so many eggs at a time. Babies out in the open in Brazil are just asking to be picked off by predators such as ants.

  Well, after feeding I am wondering. Very few of them - only 1 notably(took pictures) was hungry. I am wondering when they are going to molt as they arrived on August 24. Notably almost all seem rather plump and their opisthosomas/abdomens are rather shiny. I wonder if they are too well fed or perhaps just getting ready to fast before they molt. My Brachypelma albiceps and Brachypelma boehmei haven't eaten in 3 weeks and are just showinf the blackened abdomens that indicate a molt is imminent. None of the babies are showing any darkening of the abdomen. The one I fear is dying has me somewhat concerned, but I don't know or think there is anything I can do.
  I have decided, that since so many of the babies don't appear to be hungry, that I will start to feed them every 2 days in stead of every other day. If they are indeed preparing to molt, I suspect they may not even be hungry then.
  One of the smallest babies, I have not had the pleasure of witnessing it feed.  It has an odd white patch covering a good portion of its carapace. When they all arrived, it was there. At first I thought it was a deformaty and I totally expected it to die, but it hasn't.  I think it must have feed yesterday as its opisthosoma/abdomen appears larger today, but it is as skitish as ever. I wonder if the whitishness might be part of its exuvium/exoskeleton that didn't come off. It appears to move normally at any rate.