I have a handful of jumping spiders, but my favorite is a Phidippus audax named Carbon.
He mostly eats flies I catch, fruit flies that populate in my kitchen and pinhead crickets bought from pet store.
I left home for a week and came home to find he lost 2 of his legs, the ones which support his fat butt. The legs were next to each-other on a ledge near his nest.
Now I see he is struggling to get around and has seemed to lose mass in the area that connects his abdomen to his front body. (sorry for the super scientific description, I am an armature). Is there anything I can do to help him, or has this happened to anyone who may understand what may have caused it?
Now I worry the flies had a pesticide and he's melting away. He last molted almost a month ago, soon after I caught him. He's about as big as a dime, but appears to be losing mass.
He mostly eats flies I catch, fruit flies that populate in my kitchen and pinhead crickets bought from pet store.
I left home for a week and came home to find he lost 2 of his legs, the ones which support his fat butt. The legs were next to each-other on a ledge near his nest.
Now I see he is struggling to get around and has seemed to lose mass in the area that connects his abdomen to his front body. (sorry for the super scientific description, I am an armature). Is there anything I can do to help him, or has this happened to anyone who may understand what may have caused it?
Now I worry the flies had a pesticide and he's melting away. He last molted almost a month ago, soon after I caught him. He's about as big as a dime, but appears to be losing mass.
