Really all you need for a bioactive enclosures for T’s are springtails.
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True, my T enclosure only has springtails because she was scared of the isopods we gave her. The hermit crab tank right next to hers has isopods to help with old fruit bits, and that’s where the spiders were mostly congregating.
Scary! But hopefully it is under control, and I am thankful none crossed the room to get near my leo
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Amen @cmills (btw my maiden name is Miller so Caron Miller - cmiller!). 
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Ha!
My last name is actually Miller, I just shorten it for fun, so we are both C Millers!
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I don’t know why, but I find this adorable. Big beefy spider, apex predator among inverts…is terrified of the harmless isopods who eat her poop.
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I knew we had a connection! 
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Yes me too Jennifer! What a big hairy scary predator afraid of tiny itty bitty little buglets! 
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Every time an isopod touched her little footies she went into a threat dislpay, I was like nooo baby girl that’s a TINY PILLBUG YOU’RE OKAY 
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That’s hilarious! 
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My great, big Lp will often through up a threat pose when I refill her water bowl!
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What a big fluffy baby. 
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I see spiderlings. A lot of them!!
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So many tiny babies! And she hasn’t discarded the egg sac yet, so I suspect there’s still more emerging.
I don’t think it shows in the picture, but the babies already have their adult markings, they’re like tiny miniature versions of mom.
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Well @jawramik Jennifer if we were together I would pass out cigars! Thousands of them!
But congratulations no kidding! Momma is a tough little lady as well!
Do you have plenty of fruit flies on hand or are you planning on releasing them which in reality is your only option? Because there are so many?
This is sooooooo exciting to see this miraculous ending! And you did pretty good too Jennifer! 
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It’s my understanding that they won’t need prey of their own until they leave mom, at which point I plan to release most of them, though I’ll probably hang on to 2 or 3 to keep…at which point I’ll probably have to pick up a fruit fly culture. Though depending on how big they are at that point, I might be able to get away with starting them on pinhead crickets. We’ll see.
I was starting to worry that the sac wasn’t viable, just because nothing seemed to be happening, and then I came home to this! I looked up the date of the first picture I took of the egg sac, and it was September 2nd, so gestation was just over a month.
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That’s amazing that you’re going to be able to keep a few of those babies!
So now we know what the general gestation time is for wolf spiders! (Next time you bring one home!)
However if you can bypass the fruit flies and move on to the pinheads hooray because fruit flies are a pain in the arse! Lol!
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Yeah, I’d love it if I could avoid the headache of dealing with fruit flies. Right now, the babies are perhaps a bit smaller than the smallest pinhead crickets. I assume that they’ll have molted at least once by the time they leave mom, so I’m cautiously optimistic that they might be able to bypass fruit flies. 
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If they’re anything like most tarantula slings, they’ll scavenge food and eat parts of larger feeders left for them so that may be something to consider as well.
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Well, Tala’s egg sac continues to deflate while her back gets more and more covered with babies. We’ll see how things look tomorrow morning!
I’m so proud of my girl. Hopefully her offspring will inherit her tenacious spirit!
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