New Regal Jumping Spider Urgent Care Questions

jumpergirl22

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Hello,

I just brought home my new jumper yesterday, I have never own one before and I think it might be dead. So I bought it at a reptile convention and throughout the time we were there it moved around its little habitat and everything just find. I brought it hold and I held it for a little and it even crawled all over me it was so cute. I currently also have a leopard gecko that I feel mealworms too. When looking online on what to find the spider it said I could feel it mealworms so I did, and it ate just fine. I left to go grocery shopping while it was eating and when I came back the worm was dead on one side of the habitat and the spider was on the other. I took the spider out so I could remove the food and noticed that it wasn't moving any more. I looked this up on the internet and it said that it was lethargic and to put the spider in a smaller habitat with moist cotton balls and keep up high humidity. I did that yesterday and it still isn't moving today. What do I do? Attached are photos. PLEASE HELP, I don't know what to do and I want my little fella to be okay.
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Ultum4Spiderz

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Hello,

I just brought home my new jumper yesterday, I have never own one before and I think it might be dead. So I bought it at a reptile convention and throughout the time we were there it moved around its little habitat and everything just find. I brought it hold and I held it for a little and it even crawled all over me it was so cute. I currently also have a leopard gecko that I feel mealworms too. When looking online on what to find the spider it said I could feel it mealworms so I did, and it ate just fine. I left to go grocery shopping while it was eating and when I came back the worm was dead on one side of the habitat and the spider was on the other. I took the spider out so I could remove the food and noticed that it wasn't moving any more. I looked this up on the internet and it said that it was lethargic and to put the spider in a smaller habitat with moist cotton balls and keep up high humidity. I did that yesterday and it still isn't moving today. What do I do? Attached are photos. PLEASE HELP, I don't know what to do and I want my little fella to be okay.
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ℹ probably would had fed it a cricket instead . Crazy they sold you a spider that skinny . I’ve kept wild ones before and they literally would eat any bug I put In The container . Voracious appetites .. is it still alive ? I can’t tell from pics . :sad:
I Wonder if the mealworm faught back ?
 

jumpergirl22

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ℹ probably would had fed it a cricket instead . Crazy they sold you a spider that skinny . I’ve kept wild ones before and they literally would eat any bug I put In The container . Voracious appetites .. is it still alive ? I can’t tell from pics . :sad:
I Wonder if the mealworm faught back ?
I don't know that's the thing. It's not moving, the internet said to try to put like bug guts on its two front leg things and it should try to clean it self off but I'm not sure.
 

Ultum4Spiderz

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I don't know that's the thing. It's not moving, the internet said to try to put like bug guts on its two front leg things and it should try to clean it self off but I'm not sure.
Yeah I’m sorry I’ve caught tons of true spiders in the past I’ve never seen one that skinny or as skinny of a jumper like yours . You could try putting the worm in-front of its front legs to eat but it’s dead you’ll know soon . I’ve never had success using icu but I’ve tried them before .
 
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