My dart frog enclosure has a brand new arrival. Couple days ago I noticed a web in the tank. The very tiny spider that occupies it is like a dark gray/black color. It's web consists of several tight strands of webbing located above what looks like a more fine sheet like web at the bottom. Observing the spider it seems the web is designed in a way where the tight strands towards the top are meant to alert the spider of movement. It's hunting technique is amazing to witness. When it senses the movement it bounces the entire web in a way that causes the flying insects to get knocked down into the sheet web where he pounces. I'm sorry there are no photo's. I tried taking a few but you really cant see it in them. The spider is very very tiny and most of the time it just sits in the center of the bottom web with it's legs bunched in very tightly and looks just like a tiny clump of dirt sitting in the center of the sheet web. I've been making sure to supply it with a flightless fruit fly every second or third feeding of my frogs. The web is high up in the tank away from the frogs themselves so the squatter seems to have found a perfect home with guaranteed safety and food source. I'm just curious as to what species this is and want to learn more about it's needs/wants/ how to properly care for it now thats it's chosen my tank for it's new residense.
I set the tank up to be an entire enviornment with dart frogs in the top section and full circulating nano freshwater pond in the bottom with neon tetra's and caradina shrimp thriving in the water portion. The addition of the spider seems to fit nicely as a lot of times some of the fruit flies escape to the top of the tank out of reach of the frogs but right into the waiting jaws of this tiny little capitalist!
I set the tank up to be an entire enviornment with dart frogs in the top section and full circulating nano freshwater pond in the bottom with neon tetra's and caradina shrimp thriving in the water portion. The addition of the spider seems to fit nicely as a lot of times some of the fruit flies escape to the top of the tank out of reach of the frogs but right into the waiting jaws of this tiny little capitalist!
