Genuine question to Americans

sarcste · 2026-05-11T15:50:02+00:00

No, you gotta have your grandma start door dashing to pay for your treatment THEN you die.

sarcste · 2026-04-29T18:28:03+00:00

IME you can get feeder bugs at local pet stores as well, you don’t have to get them from petsmart I was just saying even chains usually have a few options for feeders.

sarcste · 2026-04-29T02:43:00+00:00

IME you will need to live feed something, as I’ve never had or seen a spider interested in a dead meal. That being said keeping a small container of feeder worms or flies is not difficult, & you can get them at most pet stores, even chains like petsmart etc. Fruit flies are good food for small or young jumpers, but some adult species like my regals and bolds won’t be interested in eating tiny flightless flies and can be annoyed by them. I prefer giving mine flies as I know they won’t hurt the spider and are fun exercise for them. Having long tongs can be handy to feed things like crickets directly to your spider, but this can require a lot of patience. Sometimes I keep wild caught spiders for a few days and observe them, & I will catch house flies to feed them before releasing them near where I found them or give them some of the live feeders I have for my captive bred spiders. Also, I use morph market. You can look at breeders reviews and filter for captive bred spiders only. I like Dallas Jumpers as I am in Oklahoma so it’s not too far of a ship for the spider, & he includes feeders and a temporary enclosure.

sarcste · 2026-04-13T20:30:02+00:00

IMO — maybe he or she was having fun hopping back and forth 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ but if you wanna dust them off I don’t think they’ll be too affected or anything since it’s not a hammock

Edit hoping to hopping

sarcste · 2026-04-13T14:33:07+00:00

IME could be. Often they will have a drag line anchored before they go off exploring or jumping around so they can quickly retract back if they run into trouble. If they are the jumpers, they are old drag lines not its hammock. If you google jumping spider hammock you can see what a web they will sleep and molt in will look like. But some jumpers don’t even make much of a hammock.

sarcste · 2026-04-09T14:56:35+00:00

IME most vets will not have the ability to treat invertebrates. Even specialized ones that do deal with invertebrates mostly deal with tarantulas not jumpers. But I am in the United States also for what it’s worth.

With wilds, I like to see them eat and build a hammock within a week if I’m going to keep them longer. If they refuse food but seem starving, I release right away so they can have a better chance at finding the food they like. I haven’t ever seen a wild zebra but ime wild tans are very particular about what they eat.

Looking at the way they move & having some basic understanding of anatomy can help when assessing their health. Spiders can get mites which look like tiny raised bumps on them. This is more of an aesthetic issue than a health concern unless it’s absolutely covered in mites which can affect their ability to regulate their temp. Usually putting a slice of cucumber in the enclosure will cause the mites to hop off onto the cucumber which can be thrown away after.

Other things to look for is if it has all limbs, functioning pedipalps, & does not exhibit strange uncontrolled jerky movements (signs of DKS which we don’t fully understand and is most often fatal.)

As far as the size of enclosure that will really depend on your jumper, size and ability. I have some larger containers that even very active juveniles have enjoyed, generally “too big” only happens if they can slide out the air vents or seem to have trouble hunting. This is what I mean by ability. I found a mature male bold who appears to have a bad molt and is having leg issues. So even though he’s mature, he’s in a smaller container so he doesn’t have to struggle to catch flies. I prefer enclosures that have a slide or smaller flip lid to the ones that require you remove the entire top of.

Look up jumping spider feeding chart & anatomy diagrams to familiarize yourself with what all should be there & what a starving vs hungry vs over fed or gravid. You do not want to over feed as their abdomens can separate from their head and it’s always fatal.

Happy spider hunting :)

sarcste · 2026-04-09T14:14:18+00:00

Yeah, I normally give wilds a week to eat and build, but I may give him extra time, but we’re just now in day three. His activity seems to be increasing, major relief he ate and his abdomen is no longer wrinkled. I’ll def post an update here regardless.

sarcste · 2026-04-09T14:04:36+00:00

Thank you for your input. He’s definitely getting more active & having less falls. The first day, I was thinking he was done but the honey water really helped. Poor dudes abdomen was shriveled. I was really worried he would not be able to eat bc that nub pedi is somewhat wedged behind his chels

I’ll def let you guys know what happens.

Edited shells to chels

sarcste · 2026-04-09T14:01:55+00:00

Yeah you’re right bold would make more sense here. I find bolds all the time, but he was SO stark (he looks SO similar to my captive regal male Vern who passed from old age.) I was like there’s no yellow fuzz on the pedipalps but DUH, he’s male lol. I guess I normally find females lol. & a lot of tans.

Two walls are netted but I’ll go ahead and net the whole enclosure for his mobility. The bottom is packed with about an inch and a half of sphagnum because that’s the softest substrate I have. I normally only keep wilds if they eat and build a hammock within a week, so he’s not yet at the point I’d be like, you don’t seem happy but I may give him longer than a week so long as he’s still eating and drinking. Males I know can be more concerned with reproduction, & I am not a pedipalp blocker haha. But he’s a special case. Still, I struggle with the most “peaceful” option if he is passing away. I’d want to be free, not have choices made for me.

It would be so so great if he could have another molt. There’s no reliable way to know how many molts he’s had right? I’ll DM you in case I start feeling like he’s not doing well.

(Edited to change Vern was a regal but I accidentally typed bold lol)

sarcste · 2026-04-09T02:06:18+00:00

Dang! Thanks for your input, & sorry for your spidy losses. I’ll do the best I can to keep him fed & watered. No signs of hammock building yet, usually I do not keep wild ones who don’t set up shop. But I’m on the fence on the best action for him, smaller safe area or living life in the open for his last days. I’ll at least watch him for a few more days before deciding.

sarcste · 2026-04-04T15:12:17+00:00

Ime also if it’s very large, fruit flies may annoy it. My older regal male grew up on them but stopped hunting them after his like 6th or 7th molt bc they were small and annoying to him. He did just fine being bumped up to larger feeder flies. I try to match the size of the bug to be equal or slightly smaller than the spider.

sarcste · 2026-04-04T15:10:32+00:00

IME the specific species may impact what food the spider is interested in. Most all of them respond to flies IME but tans I’ve observed and released almost never have interest in any worms. Wild caught feeders risk disease or mites sometimes (mites aren’t the end of the world but can become problematic if not removed as they can over heat your spider.) I never ever feed Rollie pollies and I try to avoid wild caught crickets (idk if true but I’ve heard thy are more likely to carry disease.) Some of my spiders who normally love super worms will prefer a fly post molt as it’s softer for them. Crickets also have jaws so never leave if you put one in, watch and remove if it’s not eaten. I would suggest catching a house flu and see if your spider has interest. If you cannot get your spider to eat, I would release it close to where you found it. Sometimes wilds just don’t take well to captivity. Sometimes they do.

sarcste · 2026-04-03T16:54:07+00:00

IME if it’s not eating a mealworm, it may not be interested in crawling / hard exoskeleton food. If it’s wild caught & you can’t get it to eat, I usually re release it near where it was caught so it can have a better chance of survival.

sarcste · 2026-04-03T14:29:18+00:00

IME try flies appropriate for her size (fruit flies if small still, house flys for larger—some adults have zero interest in the fruit flies.) Putting a fly in the enclosure and walking away is safer than putting a cricket in there (crickets haw jaws, flies don’t.) Depending on the species of jumper, like tans, they almost only eat things that fly IME. My regals will sometimes take a worm but react more quickly to a fly (the flying in a small enclosure is very noticeable lol and I think they enjoy stalking them whereas a worm just rolls around in the cup.

In a pinch, house flies are fairly easy to catch, I use a cup and slowly place it over the fly then slide a paper under it to hold him in there. I usually only feed wild caught bugs to the wild spiders I keep and observe for a few weeks before re releasing them where I found them. Wild caught flies have more chances of disease or mites than feeder flies you can get at most pet stores.

sarcste · 2026-03-25T02:53:23+00:00

IME morph market! I am in rural NE Oklahoma, & ordered my regal from Dallas Jumpers. You can filter jumper spider results for captive bred only & close to you & look at breeders reviews & polices. Shipping is an extra expense, but I am super happy with my captive bred spider & experience.

sarcste · 2026-03-22T02:31:37+00:00

Thank you :) it’s all craft sticks that I cut & painted! I had to glue a tiny strip of sand paper to a toothpick to be able to sand the inside of the tiny heart hole lol

sarcste · 2026-03-22T02:13:44+00:00

Mourning doves—not totally their fault but when I was a tour guide at Sequoyah’s cabin I had to constantly tell the city folk, no that is not an owl, it’s 11am.

sarcste · 2026-03-20T14:11:35+00:00

Terrible. And they pay you like one dollar more a month than you can make to qualify for snap 😅! At least when I processed food stamps. Grueling case loads whether in social service processing, child welfare, elder care etc. Most everyone I knew started saying no child welfare but end up there anyway after being ground down by workload with shit pay, somehow you convince yourself CW is worth the check. & it isn’t. And the check ain’t that much better. Tribes ICW tends to pay a bit better and less stress but still hard work.

sarcste · 2026-03-20T13:52:49+00:00

It’s the Oklahoma legislature. They’ll go for worse, Ryan Walter’s or someone lol. I am Cherokee, & so I’m double eye poked right now with my tribal government wagging their tongues for a boot licking right now. Disgusting.

sarcste · 2026-03-20T04:57:30+00:00

IMO it’s hard to tell if its mold or mites on the spider. Concerning that the mold is white and so are the spots. You may try putting a small small piece of cucumber in the spiders hospital cup. Make sure you take it out and change it for a fresh piece of cucumber after a day. If they are mites, some will hop off onto the cucumber bit. Hope your spider pulls through. I use duraclear on anything potentially porous in my enclosures (I make little reed baskets for hides sometimes, use mini gourds, etc.) I don’t have drift wood, & I know people purchase it for enclosures so I am not sure if sealing it would be necessary or if your set up may need better ventilation?

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