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No. She was wild-caught.

@@IllusionQueen4Eva I typically leave most spiders be, adoring when jumping spiders are in my home but never taking them from outside.

@@Bendilin I personally don't have anything against it, as long as someone isn't taking in an endangered species, or taking in an animal that isn't doing well in captivity. Every captive-bred animal had ancestors that were wild-caught, after all. This one actually lived longer with me than my other, captive-bred one did, so I think it was most likely just old age. I've never seen this species before, and I thought it was beautiful so I kept it. If I see another one of the same species, I probably wouldn't keep it again. Their lives are too short for me to keep getting heartbroken about, so I'm only keeping species that I've never had previously. I typically don't like having spiders roaming free in the house. I always catch them and take them outside. If it's a jumper that gets into my house and I've never seen the species before, then that's a different story.

@@IllusionQueen4Eva No worries! I just know a lot of people will hatch and raise jumping spiders as pets.

I don't really see the spider features that everyone else is seeing... And maybe you're thinking of the Jerusalem Cricket? They also have elongated and segmented abdomens.

Neither did I! I saw a video of them on TH-cam, and thought they looked super cool, so I knew I had to have this species as a pet. They were out of stock so I had to wait more than two years!

It's half spider half scorpion. Sometimes they cross breed in the wild.

​@@Rydiculous Haha shuuure. People always say that vinnies look like a cross between a spider and a scorpion, but I personally don't see the spider part of it. They have the pedipalps, the chelicerae, and the legs of a scorpion. Even the tail-like appendage is closer to that of a scorpion than a spider.

Thank you!

Hope you get one! They're such neat critters.

That is correct. When I grab the crickets to feed them to my pets, they often drop their back legs in an attempt to distract the predator. It's a phenomenon called "autotomy". It actually makes it a lot easier for me and my pets when they do that, because they always jump out of the feeding cups or the enclosures and I have to chase them down, or they jump out of the grasp of my pets.

……Pretty much all inverts being sold at expos are kept in deli cups so that they take up less space on the tables, and can be easily and safely transported. The animals do not live in these holding cups (excluding slings) and were only in them for the expo. They are not meant to be temporary housing for a tarantula of this size, let alone a permanent one. This video was taken 20-30 minutes after I got home from the expo. I guess I could have taken another video of me moving her into her enclosure, but I was so tired after waking up super early to get to the expo that I didn't take any more videos of her that night. I know some people purchase animals without doing any research on their husbandry, but Mynah was definitely not an impulse buy. A 3" G. pulchripes, and a confirmed female at that, is not cheap. I think it's safe to say that no one would spend that amount of money on an animal unless they knew what they were doing.

✨ BTW, just giving you a heads up. I'm going to unlist/private my newer videos, and then reupload them onto my channel. So if you don't see any more of your comments on some of my videos, that's why. Today, TH-cam decided to implement the rule that all videos under 3 minutes long will become Shorts. I absolutely hate Shorts. They don't allow me to edit my Shorts unless I have the app (which I don't), they make it difficult for people to read description on Shorts, and they put my Shorts in a different tab from my normal videos, which confuses me and my viewers and messes with my OCPD. For these reasons, I'm going to reupload all of the videos that came after "Jumping Spider's Second Cricket" (which has sadly been turned into a short). I'm also going to edit all of my "Shorts" so that they will display as normal videos. It will take a bit of time but I'm hoping to get it done asap. I've read all your comments on my privated videos though!

I personally don't have a problem with keeping invertebrates in jars. Most inverts don't know the concept of "freedom" and aren't affected by the fact that they're in a container. It's not like a goldfish in a glass bowl. My plastic container doesn't have any holes for ventilation though, so it wouldn't be a good enclosure for any animal. I took her out of the container once she was done eating.

​@@IllusionQueen4EvaOh my. I did not know this either.. I always saw arachnids in the same field as animals, good to know they won't get depressed though