Grass spider had babies. What do I do?

[SpoodLover]

Hello! So I have a female grass spider that I rescued from the cold. She laid her eggs in the container I put her in and they hatched about 3 weeks later. She unfortunately passed away after this, but I have around 25 grass spider slings and I'm not sure what to do! It is too cold to release them or else I would have, so I rounded each of them up into individual deli cups. I dropped in flightless fruit flies with a couple but they showed no interest. I would like to keep them alive until spring, so advice is needed!

Also is it okay if the deli cups do not have holes? I figured the babies would be fine without it ventilated for a while but I'm not sure. How do I ventilate them? And do they need substrate or anything to climb on?

 

[Poonjab]

Just let them go. In your house.

 

[SpoodLover]

Just let them go. In your house.

Problem is, I have tons of captive bred tarantulas, reptiles, and amphibians in my house and I don't want the little ones to come in contact with them.

 

[Poonjab]

Problem is, I have tons of captive bred tarantulas, reptiles, and amphibians in my house and I don't want the little ones to come in contact with them.

I feel that. You have a crawl space under the house you can release them?

 

[SpoodLover]

No unfortunately :C

 

[Thearachnidaddict]

That’s a lot of diapers to change

 

[The Snark]

I'm maybe way off base here but that appears to be a salticid. They naturally are cohabitant with other predators. They roam our walls with gecks everywhere and of course curious cats. It's extremely rare that I've ever seen one get munched, and most of the time it's among their own kind. Gecks and cats have motion response ocular sensitivity and the stop - start movement of the jumpers throws them off the hunt. Only the sparassids aren't fooled by this.

 

[CRX]

I'm maybe way off base here but that appears to be a salticid. They naturally are cohabitant with other predators. They roam our walls with gecks everywhere and of course curious cats. It's extremely rare that I've ever seen one get munched, and most of the time it's among their own kind. Gecks and cats have motion response ocular sensitivity and the stop - start movement of the jumpers throws them off the hunt. Only the sparassids aren't fooled by this.

You are correct, you are off base (no offense lol). Its a common North American genus, they're a funnel weaving true spider- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelenopsis

That first pic does kinda look like a Salticid though, I understand why you'd think that.

As for OP, I have no idea in this case. This is a tough situation because those babies look really tiny.

 

[SpoodLover]

You are correct, you are off base (no offense lol). Its a common North American genus, they're a funnel weaving true spider- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelenopsis

That first pic does kinda look like a Salticid though, I understand why you'd think that.

As for OP, I have no idea in this case. This is a tough situation because those babies look really tiny.

Good news... the babies are doing fantastic. They are all eating and growing fantastically. Nearly all of them molted last night! I'm hoping to release them in spring when it warms up a bit.