I have one too! It’s crazy how big they can get. And they’re so cute 😍 they’re quite happy to explore when they’re used to it and don’t even want to go back in their enclosures once they’ve been out. Your pics are quite similar to the one’s I’ve happened to capture. 😀🕷 nice work
Is your's a daring jumping spider or a different species like a regius? Mine consistently comes out when the sunrays hit her enclosure, she warms up then goes hunting or webbing up her enclosure. I used to have to let her jump from hand to hand to tire her out, but now she's used to my hand and is not as hyper scared of being handled.
Mine is a Phiddipus Audax aka daring, bold or curious jumping spider. It's pretty cold here right now and he/she(still young) likes to hang out on the side of the enclosure nearest the wood stove. My first one escaped. I stupidly left the enclosure near ground level in the summer and one of our chickens came a long. As chickens tend to peck at anything they think might be food, they 'unplugged' the feeding hole. At least this is the only thing I could think of, I know I didn't take the earplug out myself and leave it on the ground. Hopefully she didn't just become a chicken snack and managed to escape off into the wilds at the least.
I've always wondered about owning a Tarantula, but it's admittedly a bit more 'freaky' than the cuteness of the jumping spiders. Have you ever been bit?
I've never been bitten other than by a random yellow sac web spider that crawled in my bed to get warm and it bit me when I rolled over. Those guys are bad news in fall they all go to warm areas when it gets cold and they aren't afraid to bite. I've never been bitten by my pet spiders including my tarantulas, though I can't handle one of my tarantulas (a cobalt blue) as it is short haired and will think anything in its cage is food. I bet your escaped jumper built a hibernating web sac somewhere for the winter, you might see it again in the spring.
I’m glad to hear that you haven’t been bitten by a tarantula. And even so it probably wouldn’t be that bad from what I understand but admittedly they’re more freaky to handle than the relatively small jumpers. So far I’ve not had much luck coming across wild daring jumpers. I believe I’ve found some regius but they don’t seem as friendly as the bold ones(other than that first one, which seemed to fall in love at first sight, but I couldn’t keep a second one at the time.) And if I could find my old one, that’d be awesome cause I was pretty attached before the big escape. I’ve gotten mine from a local breeder. I’ll have to get some posts up on the topic 🙂
I'll be looking forward to your spider posts. I have some zebra looking jumpers over here as well but they are tiny and really fast so I never tried keeping them. I would need to raise fruit flies for them or something small like that for feeding. I also have a pet vinegaroon that is a pretty hilarious pet with personality.
Vinegaroon... haha I had to look that up. Thats awesome 😎 If you’re ever looking for some vinegar for your fries you wont have to go far, at the expense of pissing them off 😉😆
I've only been sprayed once, now the vinegaroon is used to be handled. It will run out from its hiding place if I open the lid looking for crickets.
Oooh! Please do more posts on your arachnids! Whip-scorpions are so weirdly adorkable. Looks like Carl sprays in this video? If so, how strong is the vinegar smell, does it hang on for a long time or disappear within moments?
!PIZZA
The vinegar smell isn't too strong. Carl the vinegaroon was raised in captivity so he is used to humans feeding him so he rarely ever sprays. I used to catch wild ones in Arizona and they would spray like crazy.