Spiders update!

[Miss Lily]

The little spiderlings are doing really well! I have around 20 now separated from the main big tub. I have them in deli cups of singles, 2s and 3s. I am now able to sex a few of them that are big enough. Here's a pic of a female on the left and male on the right. They are so cute! I am waiting to see how big they get before my fear kicks in and tells me they are too big, lol!

 

[Virgil1972]

What you going to do with them?

 

[Miss Lily]

I'll be selling most when they are a bit bigger and eating greenbottles. I've probably got 40 or 50. I haven't counted the rest that are still living communally.

 

[Virgil1972]

I don't like spiders they freak me out.

 

[Miss Lily]

Nor do I! If you told me a year ago I would have pet spiders, I wouldn't have believed it! I could never understand why anyone would want a pet spider, lol! Then I fell in love with the fluffiness of the females. Then I was sent a female instead of a male then the female arrived too. My original female laid an egg sac then died. I'm loving having the babies around. I still haven't been able to have one of the big ones on my hand. I panic every time they get too near to coming out. I hope to overcome that one day though.

 

[Fireborn]

After seeing your jumping spiders I've been looking for one available in my country. Although im generally freaked out of spiders myself I have learned to live with my husbands tarantula and jumping spiders are actually cute.

 

[Twitchet]

Congrats Tiff. Doing so well, Ethel lives through her little babies, that's a lot of little chelicerae to feed!

 

[Brokaylacham]

I hate spiders, but these ones ate cute!

 

[Graves923]

I got hooked on keeping tarantulas early last year. Currently have just two since my girlfriend wouldn't move in with me if I had any more lol.

Currently have a A. geniculata (Brazilian giant white knee) and a C. marshalli (Straight horned baboon). Both female and fiesty. The white knee tries to eat anything that moves in her enclosure and the horned baboon is extremely defensive.

 

[Allan]

You're mad.... You're all utterly crazy....

 

[kinyonga]

Allan...Didn't you know keeping chameleons makes us all crazy and the problem just expands from there!!??
And actually...if you look a little deeper sometimes it's having kids that starts the whole ball rolling!

 

[Allan]

Well I suppose me wanting a Tegu does put me in the mad category. The wife says to get a dog, I say a Tegu is a dog with scales.

 

[funnyCAT140]

Are these the jumping spiders that are always in houses or are they something else? I'm terrified of spiders, but I think there cool to watch. We have brown recluses and black widows where we live, so I think as small child I was told some spiders are poisonous so now I'm scared of spiders, I don't know.

 

[Miss Lily]

I'm in the UK and we have tiny Zebra jumping spiders that are native, but my pet spiders are bred as pets. I know in certain areas of the US there are wild Phidippus Regius and Phidippus Audax.

 

[Andee]

I have some jumpers on the way and I have what I think is a p. Cardinalis. There I have so many others too but those are my jumpers. I will be getting some species from Borneo soon that I am importing. And a few other native US ones.

 

[Tortdad]

My wife would make me pick between the spiders or her.

 

[Andee]

But jumpers can learn to shake?