Trapdoor spider help

[Chris_Skeleton]

I recently caught what I believe to be a myrmekiaphila species trapdoor spider and it's about half the size of a dime. I currently have it in an acrylic container that is about 2" wide and 3" deep. I have some of the dirt it was found around in the container, about 2/3 of the way to the top, with some grass blades in it also. Anyone have some info on how to keep and care? Cacoseraph already provided a good bit of info to me and I'm just looking to see if anyone else has any info.

Also, it's scared of anything that touches it. I put a pill bug in and everytime it came near the spider, the spider ran like crazy from it. So I killed the pill bug and put it in the premade burrow I made for it. It's pretty much staying in the burrow I made and isn't making it's own or webbing the place up.

 

[Chris_Skeleton]

Anyone...?

 

[cacoseraph]

blast, i forgot about this


your house temps will be fine. they live in the ground outside, so they basically have buffered outside temps... the ground does do a lot of insulating, though



pretty much little trapdoors suck to feed. i am trying to develop mass production ways to work with them. there are a bunch of local species i want to work with.... but right now it takes me 2-3 minutes per little spider to feed them.


i guess i could work on different feeders... but right now i just feed everything prekilled and have to manually insert it into the various burrows. it's hard on the burrows and annoying for me (and probably the spider)

 

[zonbonzovi]

Are these similar to Shprodos sp? If so, I'd think that more depth would be preferable but I could just be projecting one myg behavior onto another.

 

[cacoseraph]

most mygs will adapt to shallower burrows