Fel - Tumblr Posts
The three babies from Zoruas eggsack that I am keeping. All of them were named by my friend:)
This one is Aspera, thet looks the most like their mother.
This one is Leto. She has the lightest markings of the group.
This one is Fel who was molting while I took this photo. She was the smallest that I picked out which is why she is in a smaller container but tomorrow I will upgrade her.
Fel (T. georgicola) was very excited about mealtime and literally leapt and tore the mealworm out of the tongs before I could place the worm in the enclosure
Rehoused the 3 of my baby T. georgicola that I plan on keeping.
Fel's enclosure
Aspera's enclosure
And Leto's enclosure
I also rehoused one other baby wolf spider whose species I am not sure of. If I had to guess though, I would guess Hogna lenta.
Bug tour part 1: Starting with spiders!
This is going to be a series of posts to show my current invertebrates
I will start with my 3 baby T. georgicola. These are the offspring of my late wolf spider, Zorua. They were all born 7/1/23
The first baby is Aspera.
She is a very confident spider with very pretty coloration. She is the largest of my spiders, which is odd because I feed them all at the same time.
The second baby spider is Fel.
I originally picked them out because they looked the most like their mother. She was the first to take down live food instead of the pre-killed mealworm I was offering when they were tiny. She loves food and has even attacked the tweezers when I dropped food in because she mistook it for food.
The last of my 3 baby T. georgicola is Leto.
She looks very similar to Aspera and while I originally selected the babies I'm keeping in hopes of having them all look different I really like this coloration. I am not sure if they will keep this coloration as they age or not. She is also very food motivated and is a bit more shy than the other two.
I do have a fourth baby wolf spider but they are not one of Zoruas babies. I think they are a Hogna species. I have not named this one yet.
This baby burrows a lot more than my other wolf spiders. I have them in a smaller display enclosure and I like being able to look over and see them.
My next spider is an old black widow named Doris
She is the first widow that I ever caught and I am very fond of her since black widows are some of my favorite inverts. She did not used to have any white on her but as she's aged and laid eggsacks, she's gotten more white. She also had 24 babies hatch today.
The next spiders I will show are Doris' babies.
There are 24 total. I originally crushed a lot of the eggsack in hope only like 5 or 10 would hatch out because I cannot care for a hundred baby widows at the moment. 24 is better than 100 though. I will probably leave them together for a bit and they might cannibalize each other but once I notice them cannibalizing I will separate them.
My last spider is a baby fishing spider named Pebble.
Pebble is a bit of a challenging spider. I have her set up with a little water container and some fake leaves to chill on and she will be upgraded as she grows. I can only ever get her to eat moths and not mealworms or darkling beetles and I've never caught her eating, I've just seen her prey dead.
That wraps up the first part of my bug tour, my pet spiders. I am going to start writing the next part now.
Resetti the baby Hogna lenta
Several of my four Latrodectus mactans aka southern black widow babies
They are both from the same clutch but have grown at different speeds. Baby #4(right) is the largest of my remaining 4 babies
Next is Aspera(left) and Fel(right), two of my three Tigrosa georgicola
These are screenshots from videos since videos aren't working for me
Many spiders ate dinner today
Moved some spiders.
These could be temporary enclosures but they also could be permanent. I don't know yet.
Here's Aspera in their new enclosure
And Fel
Everyone tell my spidee her new skin is beautiful
Fed some spiders today
Baby #4 aka Zelda
Baby #2
Baby #6
Fel
Aspera (she actually took a worm from my tweezers!)
Resetti
Another baby molted
This time Fel molted, my little spiders are no longer as little, they've all been molting recently
I like when spiders have the blue coloration after molting
Fed a bunch of spiders tonight
Aspera
Fel
Upgraded Fel the wolf spider
He was in a candy jar container thing from dollar tree
Which worked for a while and was still working perfectly fine
However, I plan to slowly upgrade all my bug enclosures into glass tanks or similar products (I just upgraded my small centipede into a nice looking storage container for example) and I figured I will just start with one of my favorite spiders and the one that would be the cheapest to upgrade
I decided to upgrade her into a 2.5 gallon tank (originally used was going to do a 5.5 gallon but decided this would be a better size for him.)
It looks to be about twice as much space as the last enclosure and I think it will be a good final enclosure for this spider.
I added live plants that I am hoping will grow well and give a lot more ground coverage
And I an eventually gonna get a little light and trailing plants and probably a fern so I will be remodeling the enclosure eventually most likely
Sometimes you are just the most perfect spider ever
I keep thinking he's gonna die or actively dying (of old age) but hes just chilling
About a week ago, Fel the wolf spider died. I was not surprised because he was an old man, it did feel weird to not have a wolf spider though after his death.
And then last night, I was in my kitchen and saw a large, female, wolf spider and I caught her, I thought I finally had another wolf spider I could take care of since I was quite sad about not having one anymore and female wolf spiders have quite long lifespans.
I immediately noticed that she walked kind of weird, she sort of hobbled around. However, she could still run very fast when she felt threatened, so I wasn't to worried about her.
Unfortunately though, this morning found her dead. My theory is she ate a bug that came into contact with pesticides.
Its very unfortunate that she died though.