Wow, I’ve never heard of Lyssomanes viridis being sold as a pet. For that species, make sure you have some fake plants in the enclosure with good sized leaves. In the shape of something like magnolia bush leaves.
Do you think we would be better off with a different species? We have about a half dozen T's, but these will be our first jumpers.
Should we use the same substrate as we have for our tarantulas? It's a topsoil/coco fiber mix.
Not sure. Lyssomanes viridis is a cool species. I would love to see someone having it as a pet. I’ll see if I can find any papers on their behavior.
I would say yes, they are relatively small and hard to find information on online. Seems more like something that would belong in a jumping spider veteran's collection.
I have kept them as a pet. There males are really cool
That will be fine.
Phiddipus are a great genus of jumpers and their quite large too. Search your backyard too. A great way to start keeping jumpers is to start with your local species
Her second choice is Anasaitis canosa. But, again, I don't know much about them.
same issues as before, if you are deadset on them go ahead tho.
