Jumping Spider..new to spiders

[Doomsday]

Hey! with my greeting I must say this is the last place i would ever think to find me. I usually hate spiders and I used to be and still am a bit creeped out by them. Especially the ones that move like machines >.>
however I saw a portia on monster bug wars last week and it spiked my interest in them. I went out and caught what my cousin said was a wolf spider and what looks like a smallish (1" leg tip to leg tip) black and white designed jumping spider. I put them together and the jumper ate the other fast and then dumped it's shriveled carcass. I found these in new jersey. I decided to keep it and it is in a Tupperware about 5-5-5" with four holes on top for air. These things can't squeeze through toothpick holes like mice do through other small ones. I am now in new York. There is a small twig laying downing the container. Should I put some leaves and standi twigs? I want something that I won't have to clean so often cuz i don't want it getting out on me lol. I'm still not that close to them

So can I just put a bottle cap with tap water in there for it and drop a live cricket every week? It is not being heated or anything but if I needs it, I could put it near my lizards which are warmer.

Does it constAntly need water or does it get it from the food? Alsohow long should it live and can I possibly breed it with someones on here so can have more since spiders don't seem to live very long? These jumpers are really cool with their intelligence and benign venom.

Thanks for all the help

 

[Doomsday]

Just caught a tiny baby one.. not sure which kind.. but he killrf s knat immediately that got trapped in the container i caught him with So cool!!!!!!!! Im glad he is a baby so i can see him grow.. Wonder if he is male or female and which sp. The other i think is a male regius.. This one has white on the pedipalps

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Omg qanother!!!!!!!!

 

[LucasNorth]

Be gone troll

 

[Doomsday]

Excuse me? How does posting about my first 3 jumping spiders make me a troll? I am obviously excited to have gotten over my fear of keeping them around me and about learning how smart they are so I went and looked and in no time i caught three. Two were minutes apart. I post giving detail and asking for help and you call me a troll.. Not appreciated.

 

[ZergFront]

Someone discovers spiders and is called a troll? Do we need to bring up the How to ID a troll video again? :wall:

If you can get any fake plants you can snip a part of it off to decorate and give a launching pad for you spider to use for hunting or hiding. Unlike a fresh cut live plant, it won't decompose and wilt.

I keep a tiny plastic cap from a vial filled with water. I did have a few true spiders dehydrate when the weather was warm and my jumping spiders would hunt more with window light.

 

[Doomsday]

Thanks. How often should I feed each one? The smaller ones are in containers HalF as bg as the large one.
Can I feed the largest one a small cricket from petland? How often because I've been hearing things from once a week to twice a day!!!
also can the little ones eat cricket legs or guts or something or should k give them the small sized crickets as well and let the venom do the work?

 

[Sidi]

For jumpies I like to get a tiny glass aquarium, bit of peat coir soil, and then have lots of dead twigs, with heaps of branches, because its fun to watch them jump from branch to branch hunting dinner, and I used to give mine pinhead crickets, maybe one or two a week if it took them, if not, I removed them.

 

[Doomsday]

Can you give the babies baby crickets? THey are bigger than the spiders but the spiders have venom to kill the cricket dont they.? Also, do you go by abdomen size cuz my smaller ones i caught on wednesday are chubbier than the big one i caught sunday. (I fed the big one on wednesday ine baby cricket.
When shouldi feed it another? Today?

 

[Nomadinexile]

Excuse me? How does posting about my first 3 jumping spiders make me a troll? I am obviously excited to have gotten over my fear of keeping them around me and about learning how smart they are so I went and looked and in no time i caught three. Two were minutes apart. I post giving detail and asking for help and you call me a troll.. Not appreciated.

It doesn't. Welcome to AB, and I hope the jumpers help you with your phobia.

Notice that the "pot calling kettle" poster used his 3rd post to call you a troll. Now if I call you a troll.... jk!

 

[Doomsday]

Ya I did notice that. I set up their l ittle habitats and can post pics today.. I The larger one has no webby cloud to sleep in and he seems to be having a bit more trouble stickign to the habitat than the little ones. he tethers down alot when i move him around to higher areas so i am letting him chill on the ground. I fed him wednesday one of the small sized crickets from petland.. When do you think I should feed him again"? Do jumpers overeat? Also, can the babies hunt those "baby" crickets even though they are much larger? The biggest jumper which i think is an adult make regius due to the white spots and green mouthparts ( i frgt how to spell the ones with a ch lol) he is about dime sized.

 

[PhobeToPhile]

Hmm, I don't know if jumpers will take it, but I know some people feed tiny tarantula slings cricket "drumsticks". Will true spiders take those?

 

[Malhavoc's]

Juming spiders are actualy very fascinating creatures, awesome for getting people over their phobia! as for feeding the baby, I say go out to a petstore and find a high portien fish flakes, drop a smidgin of water to make it moist and place in spider container the young ones usualy will scavange this and grow readily upon it.

 

[Doomsday]

I have beta pellets i crushed for my carnivorous plants to eat. Think this would work with a drop of water like a paste? Should food always be offered if they are taken or only twice a week?

 

[mindstorm]

Juming spiders are actualy very fascinating creatures, awesome for getting people over their phobia! as for feeding the baby, I say go out to a petstore and find a high portien fish flakes, drop a smidgin of water to make it moist and place in spider container the young ones usualy will scavange this and grow readily upon it.

holy moly. I hope you are serious and have done so before. In my years of keeping jumpers, this is the first time i heard of the possibility of feeding soaked fish food to slings and having them GROW on them. This i MUST try.

 

[ZergFront]

holy moly. I hope you are serious and have done so before. In my years of keeping jumpers, this is the first time i heard of the possibility of feeding soaked fish food to slings and having them GROW on them. This i MUST try.

Talk to TheTyro about it, too. She started more than 11 months ago and I think she still feeds true spiders this way. I asked a little while back if there were any changes. No negative change.

 

[GartenSpinnen]

Wow, fish food? That I have to try. Good info! :worship:

 

[High_Rolling_T]

I've heard of fish food working for tarantula slings as well, so one would assume it works for true spiders too.

To add to this thread since it will probably helpful to the OP as well: I've read somewhere(don't remember where) that I should every so often clean out the drag lines from the jumping spiders. Is this true? Or are they fine to leave in there. I notice a lot of times any prey I drop in tend to get tangled up in them, and most times the vibrations caused by this more scares my jumpers than catches their interest.

Doomsday: Good job with you progress so far on getting over the phobia. I hope you continue to find out how amazing arachnids really are. If you like jumping spiders, I might suggest that you also look into dwarf tarantulas as well, they are also extremely cute.