To provide your pet jumping spider with water, you can mist the mesh in the enclosure, have a piece of damp tissue in a corner, and offer the spider a drink from a wet cotton swab every time it is taken out of the enclosure. The tissue should not fully dry out overnight and be changed every so often to avoid mold. To ensure proper humidity and temperature, place a shallow water dish in the enclosure and occasionally mist to maintain proper humidity levels.
To create an ideal home for your jumping spider, familiarize yourself with their unique features and ensure they receive the right amount of humidity and moisture to stay hydrated. Use a spray bottle to mist their enclosure with clean water every morning and evening. This will help them stay hydrated and comfortable.
Joining a water container inside the enclosure is not recommended as jumping spiders don’t drink water, so adding a water container inside the enclosure is not recommended. Instead, mist the side of the enclosure every day to provide drinking water. Ensure that the mist is fine, as small spiders need very small droplets of water only.
If you also provide the spider with fruit flies, make sure to change the water source frequently to prevent suffocation. If you do not use clean, wet cotton in a small bottle cap as a water source, change it frequently to avoid getting water between the “pages” and suffocating the spider.
In summary, providing your pet jumping spider with water is essential for their well-being and survival. Misting the mesh, having a piece of damp tissue in a corner, and offering the spider a drink from a wet cotton swab are all effective ways to keep them hydrated and healthy.
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Thank you for the article, this is what I was looking for. Story goes, I noticed one jumping spider always near my window and I live on a 4th floor. I really have no idea how he got here, and I decided to keep him. Also noticed all silverfish insects are gone! About a month later, I noticed two more jumping spiders in my room, and they are always keeping some distance from eachother and I don’t know why. Also happened that I spotted a little nest in small crack on the ceiling where radiator pipes are installed. So it became clear to me, I might have more of them than in previous case. They are all wild jumping spiders, I studied their movement patterns and their eyes and looks, and I am 97% sure It’s “platycryptus undatus”. My goal for now is to build them a small home separately and hope they won’t cannibalize each other. I am planning to feed them with these small miniature flies, because they caught a lot of them in their web already. Imma find on the internet which enclosure best suits them, for example artificial flowers, desert send etc. I really wish the best for them and don’t want to see them hurt. LIttle update: Beside “platycryptus undatus”, there is also one “Trite planiceps”, so I have a question for you. Are they enemies? Should I be concerned for safety of one of them if they share my room space together?
Dude this is nuts!! I dont have jumping spiders but house spiders and a big boy called bubba on my windowsill. Bubba is a giant wolf spider that literally comes out from hiding when i flash my cellphone light on him. When i do that he comes out for whatever reason lol. He helps with mosquitoes and flies so i let him and the house spiders and mosquitoe hawks live long lives with me 😊
I have three pinhead sized jumper spiderlings. I legit just barely squeezed the fruit fly lid open, pinned it ever so slightly and tossed them in. It was a huge pain in the ass, but they got to hunt. I’m definitely gonna try to freeze them next time. These babies are so micro I’m terrified of losing or hurting one.
Fun fact: I lived in Japan for a summer. Jumping spiders were everywhere. At first they freaked me out. One day I was playing articlegames. After about an hour I looked down to see a jumping spider just perusal me play. He continued to watch the game for a good 10 minutes, intermitantly flitting around. Then he just wandered off. They freaked me out a little less after that.
Fun encounter I’ve had with a bold jumping spider: We were playing with the cat with a laser pointer at the time, and noticed the spider on the ceiling— surprise surprise, the jumping spider was also very interested in the laser 😂 She chased it around for a good three minutes before getting bored and wandering off lol
My first encounter with a jumping spider blew my mind – as despite being such a tiny little thing, they could very clearly SEE me from a distance and understood I was another creature of some kind (they kept backing up behind an object to hide from me as I tried to get a better look) Stole my heart immediately <3
I’m really afraid of spiders. One day I noticed a black jumping spider on the fence. On my way to work,he would come out on the fence and follow me to my car. (Only a few feet). When I got home he’d be there and follow me back toward my house. This went on for over I weeI or more. I became attached to the little guy. One day he wasn’t there when I got home. Here he beat me to the gate and I went to close it and too late, he got crushed by the latch. I was devastated . I went crying into the house.my husband told me I must be crazy. To this day, 10 years later, I still feel awful about it.
I remember I had one in my house, he lived behing my stereo tuner. I use to tap on the shelf and it would come running out because I would feed him a fly each time. He had the run of the house chasing down flies on the lamp shades, … everywhere. He had no fear whatsoever of me and would jump on my hand and look at me. It astonished me that it was so smart as to recognize me as no threat and we roomed together for quite some time. One day he was just gone and I have to admit I was sorry for the absence as I regarded him with affection and fascination.
0:15 “oh hi mom” I remember a house spider that made a web in my bedroom window. She was just young at the time that I first saw her, just barely the size of a cherry pit, and despite me being afraid of spiders, I let her be since I figured she would stay in the window anyways, and my bed and desk were on the other side of my room anyways. I was more worried about the weird beige spiders that would actively hunt and move around in my room anyways, so a house spider that was no doubt going to stay in one place most of the time was the least of my worries. There was a tiny hole in the window frame where she would hide out until she ended up getting too big for it. She was a big girl, too, with an abdomen about the size of a quarter, hence why I assumed she was a female. She was actually so docile that I was comfortable enough to walk up and get a close look at her while she was in her web, so much so that I actually got a good look at her diamond-like markings. She never darted and was usually very placid, even when taking down whatever got caught in her web. Being an unoriginal nerd, I nicknamed her Charlotte. Roughly a year and a half later, it’s the last day of officially moving to our new house, and as I was grabbing the last of my things and saying goodbye to the place I spent my entire life in, I noticed Charlotte wasn’t in her web. I looked down to see her sitting on the windowsill, totally still. She wasn’t even in a death curl. I found it pretty poetically bittersweet that my last day in that room was hers as well.
timestamps for myself!! 🙂 2:33 where to find them 3:18 enclosures 5:00 substrate 5:20 decorating edit: There’s a jumping spider that lives in my backyard! She’s not a baby though so I’ve decided to leave her be. edit 2: I was at an event out of town and found a couple babies! Unfortunately I had nothing to keep them in so I had to leave them, but one of them jumped on my hand and chilled with me for a bit :))
One thing at 7:50, I’ve been keeping spiders for a while now and, in my experience, you shouldn’t put a cotton ball or sponge in their water dish. Most, if not all spiders can’t drown and instead don’t break the surface tension on water and just float. Cotton balls and sponges generally do nothing but act as a breeding ground for bacteria. A normal, appropriately sized water dish will do them just fine. As for feeders some people do put a small rock in their dish so the feeder can climb on it and not drown.
After encountering my first jumping spider, I instantly wanted to keep it. But i didn’t know how, and put it back outside. Then I found your article! Just today I found a young jumping spider. i’m assuming it’s a boy. I put him in a jar and looked up several articles to refresh my knowledge, and now I have a pet jumping spider! I named him Sailor. He’s really liking his habbitat so far. I used a ball jar with one of those lids with very small holes in it so that there is air circulation. I put a piece of drift wood in for him to climb on, allong with a fake succulent. I used plant starter dirt stuff for the ground. Thank you so much for you article! Now I can say I have two goats, three cats, and a spider!! 😀
I had a jumper on my motorcycle dash where the windscreen bolts on a few weeks ago. It seemed to enjoy the ride, turning and staring at the large one eyed spider (me with helmet visor down) and then turning and perusal the road ahead. An hour and half later when I got to my folks’ farm it looked around and descended from it’s silk safety line. Hope you enjoyed the ride and the country with plenty of things to catch and eat!
I used to be TERRIFIED by spiders (had a traumatic experience when i was young, grew up in an area full of wolf spiders and NOT the small ones) I joined a bug group on facebook years ago, and it helped me learn about spiders and other scary bugs. If you’re attempting to warm up to them a little, maybe help lower your panic, jumping spiders are the way to go! Cute lil buggers, I feel like they’re more predictable as their legs kinda tell you where they plan on going 🤣 I actually let them on me, never thought I’d see the day! (just the jumping spiders, i’m biased)
God I love jumping spiders. About the cutest little things ever. So many great interactions with these lil dudes. My favorite story is one day I was on my computer and this lil spooder dude jumped onto monitor and chased my cursor all over trying to eat it. Cutest thing ever. Thought the lil guy was hungry, lucky for him, I have a chameleon, so that also means I have feeder insects. So, the lil dude had a full belly when it was all over. 😊
My first interaction with a jumping spider was as a young child, I accidentally caught one in my backyard instead of a small grasshopper. I remember opening my hands and being very surprised not only by the spider but by the fact that it was just chilling inside my hands and not freaking out trying to get away. It’s been over 15 years and I’m still fascinated by these little guys, they’re so smart and adorable <3
The varieties that you were featuring is the spider that help to get me over my rock a phobia….. with jumping spiders, and not panic when I see other ones. He lived in my office in the window in my desk. I was fascinated with him after a while. I was determined not to let this unreasonable fear rule me any longer. She was extremely good at getting rid of my flies that would come in periodically. This explains why she would sit on my desk and watch me work as a draftsman.
I just impulsively bought my first jumping spider last night even though i don’t have much knowledge on how to care for one. This article was extremely helpful, thank you so much! Sadly my container for him opens at the top by sliding with a little magnet to keep it secure, but so far he prefers the top of his bark to make a little nest. Hopefully it isn’t too much of an issue. The container was only $18 so not too much of a loss if i need to get him a different one. I have a feeling he was dehydrated when i bought him bc the second i put his old container into his new one, i sprayed the side of one wall and he IMMEDIATELY crawled out of his old container to get water. I expected him to spend a lot more time adjusting and coming out of his old container that i bought him in.
About a month ago I was in my swimming pool and I saw a little jumping spider drowning in it. Of course, I had to save him. At first he wouldn’t move at all, I thought he was dead, but in a few minutes he slowly started to crawl around. I had just been perusal this article the day before so I decided to take him in. I didn’t have anything set up so I decided to add him as a little addition to my 30 gallon garter snake tank. It’s a bio-active setup so there are lots of little isopods, springtails, and other small insects for him to feed on. He has made himself a little nest and every day I see him jumping around in the tank. His name is Bob. Update: RIP Bob (Don’t worry it was the end of his life span and this was like a retirement home for him) Update #2: I got an other (regal jumping spider) and I need a name, any suggestions? Update #3 (Final Update): The new spiders is named Rex.
When my daughter walked up and saw me looking at jumping spiders for sale, she said something along the lines of I better not even think of buying a spider as a pet. I showed her this article and now she’s more ok with it. lol Thank you for all your educational articles. Especially these jumping spider ones. I already have 2 ball pythons. I might look into a jumping spider now thanks to this article.
I had a pet jumping spider who lived in the house with me for 2 years. During the summer months, she lived in the window next to the AC and would catch the bugs that snuck in through the gaps. In the winter time, she moved down the hall to the back bedroom where the furnace is lol. I thought she had died the first seasonal change, but I caught her going through the hall a few times through the winter. She did finally pass though, I knew something was wrong because I found her in the bathroom sitting on the shelf and she wasn’t moving. She came to say goodbye.
I met one the other day as i was sitting at a table outside of my local Starbucks. It ran right up to me and was very inquisitive and friendly. I was shocked and glad that my eyes are now more open to these wonderful little creatures in our world. I just hope that no one harms the spider at Starbucks and that it keeps living for a long time.
It’s deff a bold jumper,I have 1 canopy,1 bold,1 orange phase regal,and we just recently caught a wild tan jumping spider and they are the friendliest and smartest spiders I’ve ever owned and I love my little guys,my wife builds enclosures and does tiktoks of them and they are just so photogenic..loved the article,keep up the great work
I have to share. My daughter found an adorable little jumper 2 days ago and he is now proudly in a makeshift habitat on her dresser. She will go outside to hunt for his food right now and has named him LIGHT. We will be making a new habitat for him with a large-ish plastic container and lots of decoration. We will be getting him crickets soon as well. Such an adorable, spoiled little guy, along with our 7 birds, and 2 snakes, and 1 cat. 😀
Hey Emily and Ed! Emily! I’ve keeping tarantulas and inverts for years and sponges are very frowned upon in the hobby. The harbor tons of harmful Bacteria. Furthermore even the smallest second instar slings of any spider is extremely capable around and in water! More so than you think i promise!————————————-///———————————————- Please everyone use water dishes without sponges in your inverts enclosures.
Omg I’m so happy you guys made a article about jumpers! I have my own Phidippus Regius jumper male, whom I’ve named pixel, and I got him from a captive breeder roughly 6 months ago. He has been a wonderful lil friend and I can’t recommend pet jumpers enough they are just so fun to watch and interact with! Pixel is my first jumper and I am hoping to get a beautiful female Regius some point in the future! Oh and here’s a few tips for new owners! 1) If your jumper isn’t acting interested in food try putting them near a light or in indirect sunlight! (Never put them directly in sunlight as it could dry them up) The bright light can sometimes stimulate there apatite. 2) If your jumper is acting lethargic or isn’t as active as normal try giving them something sweet to drink like honeydew water or sugar water. they are opportunistic feeders and will drink fruit juice if they happen to come across it in the wild and the sugars in the liquid will usually perk them up! 3) Once again if your jumper isn’t interested in food wait a couple days and see if your jumpers starts hiding in its hammock/Nest (the web blanket it will build) usually if your spider goes off of food and begins hiding that may mean it is going to molt! What is molting exactly? Well just like reptiles spiders shed there skin in order to grow! When a spider is going to molt it typically hides and refuses to eat and you need to make sure to leave them alone! Make sure the enclosure is nice and humid so they have an easier time getting there old skin off and don’t bother them since molting is very stressful time and it’s super important they get there molt off with no problems or else they could die.
Hey, I have loved jumping spiders since I was about 4yo. Today I caught, photographed, and articletaped the most beautiful jumping spider I’ve ever seen. I really want anyone to help me identify him. I found him in the bathroom. As is typical when it starts getting cold outside. If anyone wants my pictures or articles just let me know. The little guy just made my day. I let him go in my living room because I hate flies and mosquitoes and jumping spiders are awesome.
Jumping spiders are just the cutest little things I caught one in my window and I’m looking to keep it. I just feed her a moth and she took right from my hand. I usually don’t like spiders but jumping spiders are just so cute! Thanks for the article I trust your word more than anyone. (all animals started off as wild caught)
God creating Spiders with Gabriel: “Now lets give them 8 legs, eyes and fuzzy and hairy.” Gabriel: “Sounds and looks weird but Humans like fluff I guess. They should like it” Humans actually get spooked and are fearing them, asking: “Why you gotta do us like this G-Man?” God: “Ok, you know what. Make one with Dog Software and give it two cute forward eyes” “That should salvage that”
I have a jumping spider that lives in the house. I’ll just be doing something and he’ll be all “Hey, can I hang out?”. Sometimes he’ll sit on my monitor or on the counters, ceiling, etc. His name is Jiminy. He’s a real treat to have around. If I make him an enclosure, keep him in there until he builds a nest, and then have the enclosure open all the time, will he return to it?
This was a very informative and comprehensive article on jumping spiders and now I really want to get 1 or 10 of them. I currently am wild caught isopods with my grandaughter and even had a crustation & isopod birthday party on 8/8/22 for our hermit crabs and isopods. My grandaughter became a grandma when we rehomed the isopods and realized that one of them had babies. My grandaughter was 7yrs old so she was thrilled. I wonder if you have a article as comprehensive on isopod care and maintenance. We absolutely love you website. Thank you for sharing
Hello, tarantula/spider keeper here: Love your articles, keep it up! However, spiders can’t drown. Do NOT keep a cotton ball and sponge in the water dish. This was only started because of pet stores who would dump crickets into the enclosure and didn’t want them to drown and have something to nibble on, not the spider (you also don’t want to dump prey items into an enclosure like pet stores do. The prey could start eating the spider when they need to molt). Hope this helps! 🙂
Thank you so much for this very informative article on these adorable little buggers! I have always admired the little zebra jumpers and until recently thought I was the only one that recognized their capacity for interaction! In the past few days I’ve been introduced to the capacity to have these beautiful little creatures in my life every day, and I am tremendously grateful for you instruction. Thank you! <3
This just randomly popped up on my YouTube recommended. I work outdoors almost entirely and I see these things everywhere. I’ve had tons of them crawl on me before, and simply watch me work out of their own curiosity. I’ve even caught bugs before to feed them, they always seem to appreciate it! I’m not the biggest fan of spiders, but these little creatures are OK in my book.
I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY FOUND A JUMPING SPIDER! Their name is Scooter the Spooder. They have a skinny abdomen, so I am trying to get them to eat. They are a fairly large jumper and I think they are breeding size. I saw them on my mom’s computer and I grabbed an empty mealworm cup and caught it. At first, I thought it was a wolf spider, and I searched for their care. Then, I found out they were actually a species of jumping spider. Scooter is such a sweetheart and I love them with all my heart.
That was perfect timing; I have currently ordered an enclosure in which I actually want to keep a jumping spider. They are soo cute. There were some helpful tips in this vid. I wish I could find one in my yard, but there are only very very tiny species where I live, so I have to take a captively bred one.
2 Days ago, I randomly stumbled upon this article (great stuff!), and although I am horribly afraid of spiders.. these guys looked freakin cute and I wanted one. Fast forward to today, I go out to my car and low and behold.. a jumping spider ON my car!! So I picked up that zilla enclosure and just fed him his first cricket 🙂. He hopped right onto my hand, it was like the universe saying, “Alright you want a spider? Here’s your spider” 😂
I’ve had one hanging around for years. The 1st one I named miss Muffy. Like Charlotte from the book. She and her off spring always have at least one baby that keeps an eye on me. I’m all the way to having miss Muffy XI now. I don’t have them in a cage they just stroll around and visit me around once a week. The latest Miss Muffy climbed half way up my calf and tied off a Webb to my leg then tucked her legs under her and took a nap.
I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been super stressed out and I just got out of the hospital for some crazy stuff yesterday.. your articles are the first thing I go to… I appreciate you taking the time with the animals and the fact you show so much care. Thanks for being an active part of my therapy Emily and ed, you guys are great 💖
I have a wild jumping spider company every day, I feed him almost daily, he is become a chubby cheeks cat.. Interactions with him are priceless.. He make himself shown when I have my morning coffee, hangs around until the weather gets hot.. We are in California. We are in touch for 4 weeks now, 😊 today he decided to show me that he is not shy anymore, coming close and examining my arm.. I am amazed how we can connect, even with the micro world creatures.
Thank you for making this article! It inspired me to start looking for my own jumper. I have never had a spider as a pet before so I was a little apprehensive. I caught one about 4 months ago that looks exactly like the one in this article. I ordered the zilla enclosure right away and followed your instructions for caring for him. Bo the jumping spider has been part of my family for 4 months now! Thank you
My sister had a jumping spider friend who looked just like Chalupa! Including that gorgeous iridescent green. His name was Oreo and he lived on Jennifer’s desk for years. Spiders generally creep me out – I’m not phobic, but I don’t necessarily want to handle them. Basically, they can live in my house as long as they don’t get ON me. But jumping spiders are so cute, and I love how they look RIGHT at you. I didn’t know people actually kept them as pets, but it totally makes sense!
Hey Emily and Ed!!! Thank you for this article. I recently found a jumping spider living in my car, as much as I would have loved to leave it alone I didn’t feel it appropriate that it just lived in my car. I followed your steps in this article and now I’ve got myself a little jumping spider. It’s been the best little experience I could stumble upon on in my life. Thanks again! I wish I could attach a photo because it is super adorable and I’m on a mission to figure out the type and possibly the gender lmao. It’s Adorable! 😍
I can’t believe how intelligent these things are. I had one come in my flat from outside, and after me tapping my fingers near it for about 30 mins, it wasn’t bothered by me being there at all and then ended up hanging around on my hand. Out of curiosity I wanted to see if it was hungry and would hunt from off my hand, so we went looking for bugs! After that if I sat down somewhere in the flat, it actually kept appearing and hanging around me for over a week. (I knew it was the same one each time as it only had 7 legs) Never seen anything like it! Not sure what happened to it after that week though :/
I had two of these in my home yesterday and put them both outside because I thought they were poisonous. But in doing so I noticed that they seemed to be very friendly and super intelligent and very cute with lots of personality. So after I googled them and discovered how amazing they are. Now I wish I wouldve kept at least one of them. If I ever get that chance again Ill definitely keep one. What are the odds of having two in the same morning? One had a green torso and the other was red or orange. Both were very curious and friendly and I swear they sewmed as though they wanted to stay and be friends. Strange as that sounds. There is something very special about these adorable tiny spiders.
The Bold is all black with white spots (check) and importantly, has blue to green hair on its mandibles (check). At first thought it was a Zebra, but the smile gave him away. Btw, the container you have is a little bit small. The lifespan of a spider is roughly determined, given adequate food, by the size of the enclosure. If you want a happy spider, especially if you are going to pair them, get one about 4 times that volume. Dress it up with the branches (to see them really jump you must have branches) bark, leaves and a few stones taken from wherever you found the lil guy. The better the space, the more they will explore. Go too big and he’ll be hard to find or might not find his food. Try to give them a safe place up high, as they are daytime visual hunters who like a view, with a place to sleep nearby (a rock with crevices is good). Keep them out of direct sunlight, but near outdoor light so they know when it’s hunting hours.
Jumping spider to himself while decorating his home: To the tune of “The Hokey Pokey” “I’ll put my left leg here, I’ll put my left leg there. No, I’ll put my left here But first I’ll shake it all about. I’ll do the hokey pokey, as my body falls apart, and that’s what it’s all about!” 😂😂 (Yes, I have way too much free time. Someone save me.)
Love jumping spiders. Never considered catching one as a pet but when I see them outside I take a moment to appreciate them before gently taking them somewhere that they are less likely to get squished. They seem like they would get lost very easy though? How do you keep it from jumping around the house once it’s in your hand?
I’ve only ever seen the zebra ones where I live. Never really thought they were special due to how common they are, and I’m not a big fan of black and white stripes lmao. Never thought they were cute either due to how hard it is to see their faces since they’re so small. But after seeing close-up pictures, I’ve taken a liking to them. Picked one up and watched it jump around on my hand. I’d imagine they might be hard to catch if they escape, since the one I played with wouldn’t stay still. Wish I could find ones with different colours here. Still not a fan of b&w stripes haha EDIT: A zebra spider appeared in my house on July 12, 2022. I decided to try and keep her. She survived with me for eight months. I’ve taken such a liking to these jumpers and I really miss having Zebra, so when I heard there was a pet expo, I went and bought myself a female Phidippus regius.
They’re honestly the only spiders I’m cool with. I saw one the other day when taking out the trash and when I went to lift the handle, a jumping spider was underneath it. It scared me for a second, but I realized what breed it was lol. The spider just kind of observed me for a second then went back to lounging around then I tossed my trash.
I have arachnophobia but I have chosen to get over it and adopt my very own jumping spider, I decided to pick something that will not be venomous or to big and easy to care. this article has been very helpful for me to learn what I will need to keep a spooder of my own I’m so excited to do this and I feel that jumping spiders are a bit cuter then any other spider so wish me luck! thank you for all your help and articles you inspire me!
I found one of these guys just today! He was hiding in my moms room when I found him. She’s terrified of spiders so I caught him for her. She voted I kill him instead I just tossed the poor guy outside Your new little guy is adorable! I love all your articles can’t wait to see more content and I hope for spider updates! Have a nice day 🙂
I’m 😶 speechless. I thought I was the only person that thought they were cute. I had one not in an enclosure on my window sill in grad school. I would lay there perusal it and playing with it. Had it for long time it was right by and at the level of my bed. One day I saw this exoskeleton when it shed. I picked it up (big jumper) and looked through it and saw a perfect image through it. I was amazed how perfect the lenses were. I will never forget looking through a spiders eyes. 💕 It was so frickin cute! I decided to look up articles on them and found this first because I was writing on my computer in a park and one landed on my screen so I watched it a while and it was sending out silk then grabbing and piling it back in when it did not hit anything in the breeze. It looked like it was eating it which makes sense and then sent it back out. Finally it actually jumped onto my iPhone, while I was trying to get a closeup article of the silk-eating behavioral thing which was super cute 🥰 I think it thought the 3 lenses were another jumping spider? Lol. At that point I nudged it up my phone and put it on a tree. It was so tiny I was worried 😟 🥰 There’s little shiny spider silks on my gold screen protector too now 😂 the big eyes and stubby legs are what make them so cute, but also their curiosity and you can interact with them and play. I don’t mind them just out in the house, but I worry about them getting accidentally crushed so an enclosure is good too.
The day after finding this article I found what turned out to be a dehydrated jumping spider. Thanks to you she (?) recovered well, jumped away, reappeared (same critter??), and is now in my little set-up. Is a Christmas cactus appropriate decor? I put one in my little ‘greenhouse’ before rediscovering this spider. Thanks and best wishes!
Ive got a P regius Ive had it since it was a tiny spiderlet and now it is 2cm long jump spiders are so cute and they are really good pets for someone getting into inverts. dont put sponge or cotton in your water bowl tho they go manky and grow bacterias really quickly you can use some aquarium gravel to let spider/feeders climb out if they fall in. and more ventilation is better make lots of small holes and mist the enclosure as often as you need to keep humidity. if you have humid enclosure w/ out enough airflow you will get mould start to grow and that is v bad for small spiders
I found one crawling around my apartment so I kept it… I have opened the widow if it wants to go out but it never does. It’s always on the same wall so I kept it there. It is crazy good at catching fruit flies. It sometimes likes to scare me crawling the ceiling and jumping down but I got used to it.
I have my first jumping spider pet and used your tutorial to build my enclosure! I think it’s a tan jumping spider. The first time I fed it a cricket that was just a tad smaller than the spider. Before I saw them close together I had thought it was at least half the size… I was wrong. The spider was scared and ran around for a half hour before it stopped and began to stalk it for another half hour and then pounced
Thankyou for making this we article there, yes ive just brought a male Jumper, but i know a we bit about them but you had a good may tips that i did not know of – mainly with watering n so forth, but yes after some hours of patience i got to meet the female jumper living in my Bathroom, and she explored my hand and arm before i placed her back on her home there, but yes despite being shy of me – which is to be expected – she warmed up to me a little after she did not see me as a threat, but yes she showed some of her personality there.
absolutely love someone out there, especially a lady, getting people interested in spiders and the otherwise “creepy crawlies”. I have a very lively garden now so that is everything’s “enclosure”. Except my fish and indoor cats but having certain bugs arachnids small reptiles amphibians etc is super interesting and fun if you have the time to keep them happy
I’ve been wanting a jumping spider for awhile. I had a friendly one that hung out on my balcony while staying in Colorado. It was a blueish color and black. I got a tv stand with drawers from a neighbor last night. This morning I’ve been taking it apart so I can use the frame to build a snake rack. ALL OF A SUDDEN a very small jumping spider fell from inside. It hung there by its web and I let it climb on my hand. I’ve set up a container with the help from this article. I have small mealworms on hand so I removed the head and left it in there. I’ll be monitoring the lil baby, maybe a week or older. It’s soo small so it’s hard to say what exactly it is but my best guess is golden jumping spider… I’m in middle Tennessee. I also found a small egg sack near it. It seamed too small to have belonged to a jumping spider but IDK.
I’m right now raising my Maevia Poultoni that I found in our window (and she helped eat a fly in our house so I love her even more!). We don’t have an enclosure yet so I came here to see what I can get or how I can care for her. I’m debating naming her Ahsoka because of her patterns (and I’m a Star Wars fan) or Leia
Minimum size requirement is a 2 x 4″ enclosure, most of the commercially available jumping spider cages are 3 x 6″ I would never use critter keepers either since just like the mesh enclosure she was talking about they won’t hold in any humidity, Also you can totally use a cage with a flat lid just give them a Hyde to make their nest inside and they will eventually move into it Jumpers are so cute I love them so much I have two of them and I plan on getting a captive bred baby in spring my mom loves them too they are one of her favorite animals and we both absolutely adore our babies
I read that they live up to two years, which is the same as a rat. I’ve got a kitchen spider and I like to attract fruit flies to her corner with fruit, and I love it when I can make acquaintances of the jumping spiders in my garden. ❤❤ I really enjoyed learning about their care. They are incredibly cute.
Approximately 4 minutes in: “I’m so old.” As someone who’s upcoming birthday will put them closer to 60 than 50… no, no you are not. Also, I’ve always loved perusal these guys. Jumping spiders are so cool. The only regret I had when we moved when I was a kid, was that the jumping spider that lived in my window sill couldn’t come along.
Had a black one with white stripes in NW Washington who decided to start hanging out with us in our bedroom, for like a year! We never tried to trap him. He would literally come on to the bed and get all up on us, lol. He’d go for long periods and we’d figure he was done with hoomans, only for him to come back after a week or two, greeting us with his friendly, touchy, cutey self! We named him Jerry. Miss that little dude💜
Hey, at first you say, you most likely find the spiders outside on your house wall basking in the sun, but you recommend no additional heat or light for the enclosure. The second thing that borthers me is that room temperature is not overall the same and I would like to know a temperature range where the spiders live, so you can better simulate the condition to the native habitat even if the specious are not native to where you live. Besides that I really enjoyed your article as always.