MrGhostMantis
Arachnoprince
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Just got one of these from my school. It’s missing four legs but gets around ok. Will it grow them back? It’s already webbing and is about as big as a nickel. Any advice?
Have an update, for this one. It stopped eating and died before making a new web, my theory is avoid disturbing them for at least a good while once they've established a web, and avoid giving them crickets with the third prong in the middle on their backside, one used this prong as a defensive weapon and possibly fatally injured my specimen causing it to not feed anymoreI work in an autoshop, and saw this guy running from the cold coming from the cracked bay door, scooped him up using a container, and coercing him into it with the lid... Took him 3 days to entangle 3/4 of the temporary container, in web.
13 days later I had the enclosure, assuming I should focus debris on a horizontal plain, due to how their webs are built, I placed a few sticks into the bottom to provide a slightly elevated area to allow for a funnel to down below, View attachment 324732
You're better off feeding it in its already established web if you don't mind it being there.I have a grass spider just chilling in my house but we don’t really have a lot of bugs inside that it could eat. Would it live longer/healthier if I catch it and feed as mentioned above? It’s the biggest spider I’ve ever had inside. Usually I just let the smaller ones chill and they stick around a while. I just don’t want it to die because it lacks food. I’m fond of it and would prefer not to stick him outside.