My New Six-Spotted Fishing Spider??

[RAZZBERRY]

ok So today me and my girlfriend went out looking for spiders and came back with a pretty good size Six-Spotted Fishing Spider and a Hogna Lenta Wolf Spider (BIG lol). So Total I have 1 Hogna something Wolf Spider (I Havent ID'd her yet) and 2 Hogna Lenta Wolf Spiders and 1 Six-Spotted Fishing Spider!!
IM HAPPY LOL

Here are some pics of the Six-Spotted Fishing Spider:

And Heres some pics of it underwater lol..
They look so shiny when they go underwater..
ITS AWESOME.

Heres my new Hogna Lenta I was telling you about:

ok I have a couple of questions, is there anything I need to know about my Fishing Spider? Like what does it enjoy eating? (I am going to try a Tad Pole tomorrow ) What do they need in there enclosure to survive?

Thanks,
Wesley

 

[TheTyro]

As far as I know, your D. triton would probably do fine the way you have it set up, but I tend to try and mimick its natural environment. An easy way to get a good idea of what they like is look at pictures where they are doing their natural thing.

http://bugguide.net/node/view/1990/bgimage?from=0

lots of pictures there. You can either buy fake plants and the like to mimick this, or go with real plants but that takes a bit of research, trial and error and upkeep. I like to give the spiders space too so i'm thinking for triton they would appreciate length over depth or height for a cage setup. I know petsmart/petco carry aquatic plants so thats probably the way I'd go...like set up a little aquarium and buy some small fish and find some insect larvea the fish and the spider could munch on between tiny fish feedings. Apparently triton mostly eat water striders....but i bet things like it would do fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerridae

I wish my boyfriend would go with me on spider hunting trips! XD getting him to come outside and look at a spider is hard enough...

 

[cacoseraph]

you seem to have broken all your pic links. did you move the images to another directory after you made the thread?

edit:

ah ha! just my janky computer =P

pretty little thing

 

[RAZZBERRY]

Thank you Both of you..

and Tyro Thank you for the info, ohh and I wish I could get a bigger place for her, but sadly I have no cash and cannot buy one...
and My girlfriend hated spiders so much when I first met here and then she went with me and and helped me with my spider collection..
She now is learning and likes them to a point where she will hold them in a jar and capture them and respect them but not enough to hold one yet lol..

and cacoseraph, thank you she is really pretty.. I am hoping to get another one next week when we go out and look for more...

 

[Venom]

You sure that's an H. lenta? I'd be more inclined to H. helluo or georgicola....maybe? Wolfies aren't my specialty..but it looks a bit dark for a lenta, and the carapace doesn't have as much of the "starburst" pattern IMO. Anywho...my 1 1/2 cents.