Wolf Spider Of Some Kind

[netherguard]

Hello everyone! I found this beauty outside my friend's garage tonight and brought her home with me.

Spider 1

• netherguard
• Oct 9, 2018
• lycosidae wolf spider

Found outside my friend's garage. She's my new buddy.

Spider 2

• netherguard
• Oct 9, 2018

I'm pretty excited since this is my first spider! She's in a critter keeper right now, but I have a larger tank set up for her, I just need a lid to go on it. Shame my phone's camera was having such a hard time with the plastic walls and didn't focus super well.

 

[NYAN]

It looks like a tigrosa species. Nice find!

 

[netherguard]

Thank you! She almost got away under a garage door. She's crafty

 

[Quetzalcoatl Nyarlathotep]

First spider eh? Congratulations and welcome to the hobby! Kritter keepers work great for wolfies. Just make sure you put in a good layer of dirt and vegetation for her to hide under. You've definitely got a female there, nice chunky legs too. Try giving her some flies if you can catch them with a net. Or, go to the pet store and get some wax worms. I don't like to put crickets and wolves together cause I've had instances where the crickets ate the spider while I was asleep. Good luck, and enjoy the brutal ways of the wolf spider!

 

[netherguard]

Thanks! I've been wanting to keep local native spiders for a while now, I don't know why it didn't occur to me that that's probably a thing people do until I blundered across these forums. I had an old 10 gal fish tank that wasn't in use, so she'll have soil and artificial leaves and extra hides once I get a mesh lid for that here in a couple of days (they were sold out at the store I checked tonight, go figure). For food, I have some small (relative to her size) mealworms for her. She hasn't shown interest yet, but I also just put her in a big plastic box. She's taken offense

 

[pandabacon]

It will probably eat store bought crickets but you can easily catch flies as well. I just use a catch cup and goto where there are a lot of flies flying around and landing. If you are quick with the cup its pretty easy to cup a landed fly. Then just slip a piece of heavy paper under the cup and put the fly in the freezer for 4 minutes. It will goto sleep and then you can carefully clip its wings and drop it in the critter carrier. It will take about 2 minutes to fully wake up and start crawling around at which point your hungry spider should chase it down and eat it.

 

[Quetzalcoatl Nyarlathotep]

Thanks! I've been wanting to keep local native spiders for a while now, I don't know why it didn't occur to me that that's probably a thing people do until I blundered across these forums. I had an old 10 gal fish tank that wasn't in use, so she'll have soil and artificial leaves and extra hides once I get a mesh lid for that here in a couple of days (they were sold out at the store I checked tonight, go figure). For food, I have some small (relative to her size) mealworms for her. She hasn't shown interest yet, but I also just put her in a big plastic box. She's taken offense

10 gallons is a little big. The more opportunities for her to come into contact with prey, the better.

 

[netherguard]

10 gallons is a little big. The more opportunities for her to come into contact with prey, the better.

I didn't think of that :0 I had read that wolf spiders like to roam, but yeah I could see that much floor space being a problem. I'll get her current box all fancied up for her tomorrow, then!

 

[AZCeptipede]

I didn't think of that :0 I had read that wolf spiders like to roam, but yeah I could see that much floor space being a problem. I'll get her current box all fancied up for her tomorrow, then!

My gals definitely roam but they spend quite a bit of time totally still as well. I use large critter keepers and I feel that's the perfect size for a wolf spider.

 

[loxoscelesfear]

Tigrosa helluo

 

[netherguard]

My gals definitely roam but they spend quite a bit of time totally still as well. I use large critter keepers and I feel that's the perfect size for a wolf spider.

Critter keepers it is, then! I'll get her a slightly bigger one today, she's in a small right now, and some extra ground hide places. Thanks for the advice!