After an amazing run, my little jumper seems anxious for a new home. She hasn't told me as much, but I'm thinking it's time.
She has had an incredible odyssey:
I found her on a side table in my living room here on the 8th floor of a condo building, back towards the end of July.
She was so tiny, and so spunky, and I knew nothing about any spiders, but I put some potting soil at the bottom of a plastic kitchen container with a couple of twigs, stretched some silk stocking across the top, and there we went!
At first I couldn't feed her anything, except incidental insects (tiny beetles or lacewings that flew in) but I never saw her feeding and the insects remained, but then one day I discovered that you could buy fruit flies, so her Great Hunger days were over.
But recently, about two weeks ago, after her last feed, she just . . . disappeared.
There is only about 1/2 of potting soil in there, so I didn't know how she could disappear, but she did. At first I wasn't alarmed, but the days ticked by, and I finally decided that she was dead . . . I shook the container around, and no spider (she's exactly the colour of the soil, so is extremely difficult to see). so just until yesterday I was preparing to throw it all out and give up.
But this morning: YAY! She was there sitting on the side of the container. I have NO IDEA what she was doing for so long!
But it's decided: I'm going to move her to a bigger container. But what should I decorate it with? And how should I cover it? I don't have silk big enough to stretch across.
Your advice and decorating tips appreciated!!
She has had an incredible odyssey:
I found her on a side table in my living room here on the 8th floor of a condo building, back towards the end of July.
She was so tiny, and so spunky, and I knew nothing about any spiders, but I put some potting soil at the bottom of a plastic kitchen container with a couple of twigs, stretched some silk stocking across the top, and there we went!
At first I couldn't feed her anything, except incidental insects (tiny beetles or lacewings that flew in) but I never saw her feeding and the insects remained, but then one day I discovered that you could buy fruit flies, so her Great Hunger days were over.
But recently, about two weeks ago, after her last feed, she just . . . disappeared.
There is only about 1/2 of potting soil in there, so I didn't know how she could disappear, but she did. At first I wasn't alarmed, but the days ticked by, and I finally decided that she was dead . . . I shook the container around, and no spider (she's exactly the colour of the soil, so is extremely difficult to see). so just until yesterday I was preparing to throw it all out and give up.
But this morning: YAY! She was there sitting on the side of the container. I have NO IDEA what she was doing for so long!
But it's decided: I'm going to move her to a bigger container. But what should I decorate it with? And how should I cover it? I don't have silk big enough to stretch across.
Your advice and decorating tips appreciated!!
. That's one of my favorite parts of this hobby.