Cleaning

[ohpaige11]

I am starting to not be able to see my jumping spiders due to their jumping points, webbing, and water spraying! Should I take them out and clean the entire enclosure? Or do people re-house them entirely? Does this mess them up with webs? Or molts?

 

[SpookySpooder]

Pics pls

Did you give your jumpers access to a spray bottle? How are they spraying their webs?

 

[The Snark]

Did you give your jumpers access to a spray bottle? How are they spraying their webs?

The heck with pics. I want a video of that. Water fight coming up!

 

[viper69]

Haven’t seen one of my T in over a year

 

[ohpaige11]

Pics pls

Did you give your jumpers access to a spray bottle? How are they spraying their webs?

Hahaha no I meant the water drops are just drying on the sides of the walls and it’s leaving water drop stains!

Pics pls

Did you give your jumpers access to a spray bottle? How are they spraying their webs?

hahaha NO! The water drops are staining the walls when they dry!

 

[The Snark]

hahaha NO! The water drops are staining the walls when they dry!

It's the minerals in the water that stain. A simple dual filter system would solve most of that problem. A ceramic .5 micron filter to remove the larger particulates followed by a catalyst chamber to remove dissolved metals. Less than $30 or so and a half hour installing. The ceramic filter can be cleaned and reused dozens of times by simply rubbing off the outer layer with scotch brite or similar.

 

[SpookySpooder]

And here I was thinking you had little water pistols for your spiders... such a shame. I've lost all interest in this thread.

In all seriousness though, you can temporarily move your jumper to a cup, or another container and wipe the water stains away.

To prevent them in the future apply the advice in the post above mine, or use bottled distilled water, or distill your own water by boiling and recondensing it.