Beedrill
Arachnoknight
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- Nov 14, 2017
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Hey everyone,
So I have a very interesting story. On 07/03/18 we were all sitting around the kitchen table eating when a friend of mine (a huge arachnophobe) noticed 4 or 5 "ants" crawling out from the underside of the table. She asks me, "Hey are these ants or tiny spiders?" I look down and sure enough there are a bunch of tiny tiny jumping spider slings crawling around. After a quick inspection I realize that there is a P. audax egg sack erupting with baby spiders glued to the underside of the table. In standard form, I grab my nearest catch cup and start corralling 1/16th inch long slings into the catch cup. I end up getting about a hundred of them when all of the sudden mom pops out and is less than thrilled about my intervention. I cup her and continue catching babies until I finally seem to get them all. I let them all outside in secluded areas so hopefully they are doing just fine out in the big wide world.
However, as the week went by, I kept finding stragglers. I kept seven in total. My problem is that I can't seem to get them to eat. First I added springtails to their substrate hoping that they would hunt them down and eat them. But after loosing two of them already, I tried fruit flies. The flies are almost equal body length to the slings and I think the slings are just frightened by them.
Could I get some suggestions or tips from some experts?
Thanks in advance.
So I have a very interesting story. On 07/03/18 we were all sitting around the kitchen table eating when a friend of mine (a huge arachnophobe) noticed 4 or 5 "ants" crawling out from the underside of the table. She asks me, "Hey are these ants or tiny spiders?" I look down and sure enough there are a bunch of tiny tiny jumping spider slings crawling around. After a quick inspection I realize that there is a P. audax egg sack erupting with baby spiders glued to the underside of the table. In standard form, I grab my nearest catch cup and start corralling 1/16th inch long slings into the catch cup. I end up getting about a hundred of them when all of the sudden mom pops out and is less than thrilled about my intervention. I cup her and continue catching babies until I finally seem to get them all. I let them all outside in secluded areas so hopefully they are doing just fine out in the big wide world.
However, as the week went by, I kept finding stragglers. I kept seven in total. My problem is that I can't seem to get them to eat. First I added springtails to their substrate hoping that they would hunt them down and eat them. But after loosing two of them already, I tried fruit flies. The flies are almost equal body length to the slings and I think the slings are just frightened by them.
Could I get some suggestions or tips from some experts?
Thanks in advance.