Dolomedes triton

[Brian S]

The pond close to my house is full of these. I used to keep them alot when I was a kid

 

[Henry Kane]

Pretty cool looking Brian. Love the abdomen pattern. About what size are they? There's not much in the pics to show scale. (Still nice pics though.)
Does this species take fish too?

Later.

Gary

 

[Brian S]

Hi Gary,
These are all about 1 inch in legspan. Not adults yet as I have seen them at least 2 inches. And yes the adults will take fish and even small frogs. They are pretty voracious

 

[ShadowBlade]

I used to keep them alot when I was a kid

Oooohh, Yeah, find 'em all the time, keep 'em for a week, then get bored of them again... :wall:

That was till I started figuring out to breed them.

 

[edesign]

Shadow...any tips you can give me on sacs and hatchlings would be greatly appreciated. I posted a thread a week or so ago asking for help as I was given two WC specimens and the second night i had them the smaller of the two laid an egg sac. That was 11 days ago...