Breeding Parasteatoda tepidariorum (The American House Spider)???

[John Apple]

looks like you may have a steatoda triangulosa there! :clap:

Exactly...cool lil spiders...all over my basement along with pholcids

 

[chris_vegas]

caught one of these about a month ago by my front door, temp was approx. -10 celsius with 2 feet of snow....I was amazed to see it alive, so I caught her, housed her and fed her...she just laid an egg sac too. I have a tropical Steatoda that's been kicking for over a year, amazing little buggers really.

 

[Widowman10]

what species? and i think i read somewhere that grossa can live for up to 6 years.

 

[TomM]

WOW SIX YEARS! It's like the Aphonopelma of the true spiders. I was always interested in true spiders but I never had the urge to care for one, but before I got my OBT sling, I didn't have anything that really webbed. So when I found this girl in the corner of my roommate's room, I scoop her up and made a little home in a vial. Within minutes the whole inside of the vial was webbed up completely. So a few days later a dropped in a micro mealworm, which she thoroughly enjoyed. She has even taken down dubia nymphs! Just thought I'd share my little story now that I know she might be in the family for a while. Who knows, she might already be 6 years old and this is her last sack. I better make sure these little guys make it.

 

[Widowman10]

and the females will live longer if unmated.

 

[TomM]

...it is better to have loved and lost (time off your life) than not at all.

 

[TomM]

Well, they've molted into 2nd instar... they started leaving the sac about 30 minutes ago. Success!!! (Crappy) Pics coming! (They are to small for my camera to focus)

 

[TomM]

They are only around 1/8" DLS fully stretched out:

Steatoda triangulosa 2i spiderlings:

 

[Widowman10]

cool! good job. and they are tiny... hope you have little fruit flies!!

 

[cacoseraph]

cool thread

 

[gromgrom]

:O now i wanna breed and keep the house spider. I always saw the brown eggsacks, the size of a bead, and never knew what they were. LIKE EVERYWHERE.

Gonna have to grab some in my dads basement next time i head home, especially if they go for 350 per sling

 

[TomM]

She actually laid another sac about 2 days ago...there looks like a lot less eggs. Maybe a dud sac. But all of those tiny 2i slings have webbed up the inside of their vial and are on their way to adulthood.

 

[TomM]

Well that 2nd sac that I was talking about was a dud... but not to worry, she laid another great looking egg sac yesterday and has been eating like crazy since. This sac looks a little bigger than the original one. Maybe I'll have another 20 or so little ones crawling around in a few weeks. Just thought I'd share (I'm also using this thread to keep a timeline of the laid sacs and when they molt out to 2nd instar, etc.)

 

[TomM]

Another sac today! Her biggest yet!

 

[buthus]

Try feeding one something with color...
Heres a female eating some greem "worm". ..

Mate attempt gone well...

 

[Widowman10]

haha, it's like putting white carnations in food coloring water when you were a kid and watching it change color

 

[TomM]

Awesome pics buthus! That green one is incredible.