Celeste
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OMG -- Phidippus Babies!!!That Phidippus I got at the last BBQ must have been a female, because when I went to feed her this evening, I found about 40 *babies*! Awfully darned cute! But I'm going to have to find some really tiny fruitflies for them -- they are literally the size of pinheads.
Those little black specks all around the top of the cage are them. (Sorry I don't have a camera that does better closeups).
Does that mean the mom is going to die soon? I've gotten kind of attached to her...
-- Celeste
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Pulk
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Re: OMG -- Phidippus Babies!!! | Celeste wrote: | Does that mean the mom is going to die soon? I've gotten kind of attached to her...
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it's been about 3 months since my P. octopunctatus slings hatched, and the mother is still going strong.
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ftorres
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Hello Celeste,
Try to order or find springtails, they are super small and perfect for the spiders.
The only problem will be that they are terrestrial and don't climb, and I don't know if the spiders will go down to hunt them.
Also try to find some drosophila melanogaster, they are small and I think the spiders will be able to eat them, at least the stronger ones.
good luck
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Celeste
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Yeah -- the melanogasters from Petco are teensy.
-- C
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ogershok
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So . . . they still hangin' in there?
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Celeste
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I let them go in my front yard (yes, they are a local specie) -- it broke my heart to see them all cooped up in a little plastic container. I wanted them to grow up free. Mom is free, too. (Hope the ants didn't eat them all). Last I saw of 'em, a few were still hanging out on the container. *Awfully* darned cute little guys!
-- Celeste
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