SpiderchickLisaHale
Arachnopeon
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- Mar 7, 2021
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Hello fellow Spider lovers.
I adore my 8-legged friends and have kept many in captivity. I had a wonderful male grass spider that lived out his natural life, fat and happy. I have a Steatoda triangulosa who came crawling through my kitchen on Christmas eve. Rather than throw her out in the snow, we put together a nice little hide for her that she has webbed up nicely. She loves her fruit flies. My main question has to do with my wolf spider sling. My husband knows that the H. carolinenisis is my favorite of all the true spiders and I've always wanted one. He bought me a sling. I set this tiny, tiny spood up in a habitat with about an inch of substrate, and a cotton ball with water for moisture and fed flightless fruit flies every other day. For reference the sling was less than a centimeter long (body only).
We got Glitter (the wolfie) in mid-January. Long story short. It died last week. At first I was hoping it was molting, no. He stayed like that for several several days. He was gone.
I was devastated. I don't know if I didn't feed enough. Didn't have enough water? He was just too small or what. This was my first wolfie. I also keep a T. vagans named Sparklebutt who is doing so well. She just put on her new dress last week.
I adore my 8-legged friends and have kept many in captivity. I had a wonderful male grass spider that lived out his natural life, fat and happy. I have a Steatoda triangulosa who came crawling through my kitchen on Christmas eve. Rather than throw her out in the snow, we put together a nice little hide for her that she has webbed up nicely. She loves her fruit flies. My main question has to do with my wolf spider sling. My husband knows that the H. carolinenisis is my favorite of all the true spiders and I've always wanted one. He bought me a sling. I set this tiny, tiny spood up in a habitat with about an inch of substrate, and a cotton ball with water for moisture and fed flightless fruit flies every other day. For reference the sling was less than a centimeter long (body only).
We got Glitter (the wolfie) in mid-January. Long story short. It died last week. At first I was hoping it was molting, no. He stayed like that for several several days. He was gone.
I was devastated. I don't know if I didn't feed enough. Didn't have enough water? He was just too small or what. This was my first wolfie. I also keep a T. vagans named Sparklebutt who is doing so well. She just put on her new dress last week.