Metzgermeister
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Hey, anyone ever tried to keep any orb weaver spiders? Any tips? info? etc?
Ty in advance
Ty in advance
Orb weavers?
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i keep a couple. the best advice i ever took was make al sides un climbable and provide to climbing poles. everyone of mine made 3-d messy webs that couldnt catch anything until i switched to a more suitable cage style. more of common sense i guess, but ya 
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I tried to keep an orb weaver in an aqaurium, but it just constantly tried to escape, and never started it's web. I felt bad and let it loose in a huge palm tree in my living room, it dissapeared for days when I noticed a web at the corner of the blinds. I fed it crickets and it lasted the summer, in the fall, I found it on the floor dead.
Very facinating to watch, but I think best left in the garden. If you can persuade one to set up in a covered porch or similar to keep it safe from predators, it may prove entertaining.
Good Luck
I tried to keep an orb weaver in an aqaurium, but it just constantly tried to escape, and never started it's web. I felt bad and let it loose in a huge palm tree in my living room, it dissapeared for days when I noticed a web at the corner of the blinds. I fed it crickets and it lasted the summer, in the fall, I found it on the floor dead.
Very facinating to watch, but I think best left in the garden. If you can persuade one to set up in a covered porch or similar to keep it safe from predators, it may prove entertaining.
Good Luck
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I kept a cat faced spider in a big chameleon cage. It made an orb web. I would mist it everyother day.. the web, not the spider, and pop in a cricket every so often. I found some males and got an eggsack from her and everything. I put the sack outside and had lots of wee babies everywhere the next spring