advices for future species of spoods

[Mori]

Hello,
I'm very new to the hobby and currently keeping my first true spider, a juvenile Cupiennius salei.
Since it's going well so far & I'm vry happy to have her/him, I am searching for others spoods to keep. I was wondering if anyone has some species to recommend in sparassidae, lycosidae, eventually eresidae species. I already plan on having a jumping spider soon.

Ty for your time !

 

[CRX]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[ForTW]

Hi

My fav. are heteropoda sp.
Just beautiful, very fast and good looking. Some of them are just more on the advanced side.

Besides this, some worthy mentions:
Macroctenus kingsleyi, gorgeous and huge
Piloctenus haematostoma, nice but fairly agressive
Holconia insignis, beginner friendly

All of those don't need anything besides basic care (cork bark, accurate humidity level).

 

[Mori]

Hey!
Thank you CRX

Thanks for your response ForTW, I really like heteropoda spp. too!
I was researching Heteropoda venatoria recently, thinking it would probably be a good choice for beginner (with what informations I have gathered so far) but I could really take more advice on that too. I can also find H. davidbowie, javana and boiei quite easily.

Ngl P. haematostoma kinda impress me for now but I'll look for the other two species you mentionned, thank you!
In sparassidae family, I also kinda dream of having a cerbalus aravaensis since i saw one a couple of months ago, really a beautiful spider.

Also, In the care side, I was wondering if any king of heater would be a good buy in case my room temperature goes below 20/21°C ?

 

[ForTW]

They are all "easy" just some need more ventilation or higher humidity (i keep my lunulas very humid with good vent and they do good. Some just Report high deaths rate).

I am not the biggest fan of cerbalus sp. Rarely visible, drop legs for no reason, all wild caught and no cb sucess by now...they do look good! Even with 6 or 7 legs...

 

[Mori]

Yeah, the wild caught part is probably what really hold me on getting one. And I didn't know that they were prone to... drop their legs wtf. It's sounds terrible and funny at the same time ...

I just checked H. lunula because it's a species i'm not familiar to and they look beautiful too !

 

[ForTW]

My females tend to do this during winter. Even tho they have the temp, a tunnel built, well fed and hydrated. They do live more than one season but each spring she showed up with one leg gone....kinda sucks.

H. lunula is often related as "the most beautiful true spider in the Hobby". They do live up to this If we consider the frequently aviable once!

Dolomedes is also worth to be mentioned.
Velvet spiders are cute and very docile.

Anyways, i'm a fan of sparassidae and ctenidae. Always on the hunt.

 

[Mori]

Maybe they're hungry and just... drop a leg, snack on it and then go "oh wait" ???
but yeah, that's a shame.

I've researched them a little bit yesterday and I think I'm gonna watch over the few sellers I know for one eventually.
I really like velvet spiders, they're very interesting and sweet looking little critters.

Thank you for all of the species you mentionned, it helped me starting to sort ones that interest me much. Definitely gonna research more on sparassidae specifically!

 

[Mori]

Just wanted to share that, after that discussion, I managed to obtain a very pretty H. venatoria !
(and two very little P. regius). super happy so far

 

[ForTW]

Congrats, i like them so much when they hunt down prey mid air going all in and finish it off with a roll over the floor or a clear hit in the neck. Just mindblowing!