Artificial Breeding of Nephila pilipes

For the past 2 months, I have engaged in artificial breeding of Nephila pilipes spider. Starting with the adult female caught from the wild, the eggs obtained were separated individually and artificially incubated in the incubator. The eggs managed to hatch on Day 16th (as validated with many reps). However, the trickiest part is to get them hatched in high rate. Out of thousand eggs, only 50++ survived to hatch but at the end of the day, only 7 thrived for the next 15 days...
         The surviving spiderlings after 10 days of hatching; clumping together on artificial substrate..

After about 13 days, the spiderlings have started to undergo the first molting. This is awesome! I would have thought they would not survive yet they have...Can you imagine that after 13 days??

                                                  You can spot the tiny puny spiderling !
                                              This is how I confine them individually

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