Advice for raising little spooders? Details and pictures included.

[Psiedrnam]

First time working with jumping spiders and it happened to be a wild one that basically adopted me and turns out she had babies!

Was able to keep them contained and have a total of 29, with 9 of them in a single enclosure just to see if they can do communal living as well because I've heard of some species that can and even help share food to other siblings, however I'm not sure if that would include this species and may resort to cannibalism. I have the tiniest flies I could order, but the little spoods are very tiny. I have some but probably not enough springtails I could attempt to include, but I'm not even sure they will find them considering the spiders are arboreal and are usually higher up.

Any advice or pointers would be appreciated if I need to separate the group or combine them, but currently a mixed strategy without me knowing is likely the best way to trial and error my way into a working setup to learn.

 

[katamari]

I'm not sure the species of jumping spider you have, but i imagine they'd probably do fine in a communal cup for a molt or two eating small fruit flies. I'd find a clear 32 oz deli cup with some paper towel and keep them communally - 29 is a fairly small clutch so that's plenty of space for them to spread out as needed. Keeping them well fed on fruit flies should keep them from munching on each other for a molt or two. You'll just have to watch for aggression - especially between the largest and smallest spoods - and separate them into individual enclosures at that point. What's your long term plan with the newborns?

 

[Psiedrnam]

I'm not sure the species of jumping spider you have, but i imagine they'd probably do fine in a communal cup for a molt or two eating small fruit flies. I'd find a clear 32 oz deli cup with some paper towel and keep them communally - 29 is a fairly small clutch so that's plenty of space for them to spread out as needed. Keeping them well fed on fruit flies should keep them from munching on each other for a molt or two. You'll just have to watch for aggression - especially between the largest and smallest spoods - and separate them into individual enclosures at that point. What's your long term plan with the newborns?

Mostly just to see who can or will make it into juvenile, at which point when they're big enough I can transition from plastic to more of a netting on the cups and once I think they're doing a decent job hunting I'll probably release most of them and keep one or two depending. I did purchase a cricket container already for if/when they're able to make it to pinhead crickets that mom has been happily able to do both before and after making and maintaining the nest, it's been an interesting process to help her along her way so just trying to do all I can for her next generation! Kinda depends how many make it out of this phase really.

 

[regalpaws]

I have a thread all about raising jumping spider slings. Hope you can find some information on there, otherwise Tarantula Kat on youtube has some good videos on how to do it.
Raising these guys is a lot of work, and can even be stressful and expensive.
Looks like you have a tan jumping spider, or Platycryptus undatus.

 

[katamari]

I have a thread all about raising jumping spider slings.

Do you have a link to the thread you're referring to? I'd like to read it too

 

[regalpaws]

Do you have a link to the thread you're referring to? I'd like to read it too

Yeah, I think it's in my signature I believe. I'll edit this response if you can't find it