this may sound awkward, but i feed my widows with flies. I've bought a fly trap on amazon that catches the flies alive. then i put the trap in the freezer until they don't move. and then i just put several flies in the enclosure and when they warm up they start to fly again and get caught in the web very easy
"not sure if he is alive.... I will poke it with a stick" classic LOL :D love your videos. would be great if you could get to Australia one day for an expo
@@maht0xno best would be flying insects as the original commenter said, not to mention isopods are hard for spiders to eat unless they are specialised for them such as dysdera crocata
As a environmental scientist in southern California in my past life, black widows love the casinings of groundwater monitoring wells. They love the cool moist enclosed environment.
Being from the US, (and being afraid of them! Lol) it's neat to actually see a Brown recluse! My brother in law was bitten by one, and ended up with blood poisoning and a nasty looking bite mark, but he survived just fine!
When I was a kid my family moved to a small town in Texas panhandle. The tornado shelter at our house had tons of brown recluses. The little fiddles on the back are neat to see. I turned a few into paperweights.
Nice. I love C. salei (-a very cute fat one you have there -😄), H. davidbowie and jumping spiders. Cute little tired Nancy😍. I wouldn't have guessed that sandspiders can reach such high lifespans, pretty cool.
I’m not educated on the first species specifically, however from my knowledge of true spiders, it looks like you have a possible pair. One has quite long pedipalps and the second had quite shorter ones in comparison. This is mainly prominent in sexing spiders like wolf spiders and house spiders.
I love this kind of videos buddy! You need to take a Kukulcania Hibernalis female! Darkest colours and scary funnel webs. I have raised many and they are really very interesting. I had one that lived 11 years in captivity (daily feeding, shekels of lighting, and even freedom...she always returned to her terrarium).
So happy that Nancy is still alive and well! I think she must be quite old now, unfortunately I haven't written down when this sac hatched. Regarding her being uninterested in Sid, perhaps he just wasn't her type :/ Anyway, if you know the story of their namesakes, it might have been for the best :D Greetings from Germany :)
I enjoy your vids! I live in South Africa and there are wild button spiders here. I don't know if your substrate is too loose for the web as I find here they make their web with hard bottom surfaces. Maybe some flat rock on the ground will help with their bungie web. Only an idea to try.
since you're reducing your collection, would be cool if you made some sick unique naturalistic display setups for your true spiders and other critters, a la Serpa Design style, that way you would be able to enjoy them properly
Spiders basically are divided into three suborders: mesothelae: liphistius only, mygalomorphae: real trapdoor spiders, tarantulas, linothele and others, araneomorphae: widows, nephilas, eresus and basically all other spiders
Wow, that first on you rehoused (I can't remember it's name) is absolutely gorgeous (even though I am still spooked by spiders :D) Hahahaha, broken spiders... :D
Black Widows can go months without food. Keep their enclosure undisturbed and try again later, in a few weeks. Try different foods, it won't harm the spider.
Cupiennius Salei male will be similarly coloured like the slings but much, much bigger. The females are going to get black with grey tigerstripes. They also are bright red on the underside.
You create really nice enclosures and have always improved over the years and it’s always made me curious as to why you’ve never made something nice for the sand spiders. I understand they just “hide” but so do most tarantulas. they could still be displayed 👍🏻 Can they climb glass?
I have a lactrodectus hesperus (western usa black widow) and it really prefers to eat small flying bugs. Maybe try your fruit flies! I put in roaches and they did same thing as yours, but the flying bugs I put in get caught better, you can leave them and the widow will eventually grab it
If I don't remember wrong, the stickiness of a web is affected by temperature and humidity, so each spider has their own special web conditions, or maybe you are just having bad luck finding the sticky lines, not all the web it's sticky
If the widows aren't creating sticky silk for hunting but only make strong silk webbing structure.. maybe they don't feel secure or safe enough or they don't have enough open space to hang the sticky web and they might trap themselves...? (I'm just thinking out loud, don't know if any of this makes sense honestly 😅)
not to concern but spiders can determine the type of silk they produce, some is sticky some is strong etc. they use them for different purposes with different properties. It could be that the widows are not hungry or otherwise not really intending to capture prey with it. I do have limited experience with widows though.
A brown recluse can get _much_ larger than that. I had one in my house that had a leg-span of a whole finger (tip to knuckle). Definitely one of the larger true spiders I've actually seen with my own eyes.
Then the spider in your house was a brown recluse in the same way that literally EVERY brown spider in America is a brown recluse which is to say it 100% was not a brown recluse. The females only get to a 1 inch dls and males get to about half of that. Real brown recluse spiders are small but everyone THINKS they’ve found a brown recluse when they haven’t. You should check out the study that was done to find the range of the brown recluse, hey asked everyone who found one to send them in and out of all the ones sent in most states didn’t send in one real brown widow, and of the ones that did most sent in 90% other spiders except for maybe one or two states who had iirc like a 50% ratio.
I’m wondering if you had a southern house spider because those get commonly misidentified as brown recluse by locals and are definitely bigger than loxosceles reclusa.
@@IrishColin I do not live anywhere near the habitats of southern house spiders. Also, they look nothing like recluses, I don't know how people can get them confused. The long pedipalps, the eye configuration, is completely dissimilar. I don't know how large recluses get in the united states, but the ones here literally are that big.
I'm sure you already know but your Curtain Web Spiders and Trapdoor Spider aren't true spiders, they are Mygalomorphs the same as your Tarantulas :) Is there any way to get your enclosures in Australia? I have a couple of Australian Tarantulas (Phlogius sp.) a Funnel Web (Hadronyche valida) and a massive golden Trapdoor Spider (Euoplos sp. Springbrook) and I love the look of your acrylic enclosures! Loving the awesome videos!!
For no discernible reason, I have suddenly fallen in love with Sicarius thomisoides. I don't feel comfortable owning one at this moment in time but MAYBE one day......
Get some more funnel webs like the Thai, they’re super boring once they hide and even feedings are lame sometimes but unboxings and setups are fun to do.
Was that gold spider the same species of that? Blue and black one. You had a couple of years ago. Then I think you did a surgery on? It also had really long spinnerets.
The pronunciation of snacks is with a much shorter a vowel, it sounds like you're saying there's snakes in the enclosures which is a different thing! =)
And liphistius are not real trapdoor spiders, they're not like the native species in Europe, which are related to tarantulas.Liphistius are the most primitive living today spiders.They probably date back to carboniferous period, way before dinosaurs.
Sadly you got a dud female jumping spider.. It's common for breeders to keep good healthy females for themselves for breeding and sell Ther Unwanted, unusable stock first..
You’ll get there 😁 I started off terrified of all spiders and now I have 5 tarantulas and 3 true spiders. The true spiders took me a bit longer too but it’ll happen don’t worry 👍
this may sound awkward, but i feed my widows with flies. I've bought a fly trap on amazon that catches the flies alive. then i put the trap in the freezer until they don't move. and then i just put several flies in the enclosure and when they warm up they start to fly again and get caught in the web very easy
Thank you!! 🙏 for posting this. I will look into this
I actually love that idea just be mindful those “wild” flies could carry parasites that could (COULD) transfer to the spider ❤️
"not sure if he is alive.... I will poke it with a stick" classic LOL :D love your videos. would be great if you could get to Australia one day for an expo
15:50 i think in the wild the spiders would eat smaller flying insects so their webs arent really made for large roaches
That’s what I was thinking the black widows in my area rarely get prayed that big.
maybe isopods are a better idea? (idk)
@@maht0xno best would be flying insects as the original commenter said, not to mention isopods are hard for spiders to eat unless they are specialised for them such as dysdera crocata
@@Palpo_pics thanks, like I say, I know nothing :)
As a environmental scientist in southern California in my past life, black widows love the casinings of groundwater monitoring wells. They love the cool moist enclosed environment.
Being from the US, (and being afraid of them! Lol) it's neat to actually see a Brown recluse! My brother in law was bitten by one, and ended up with blood poisoning and a nasty looking bite mark, but he survived just fine!
😊😊😊😊
When I was a kid my family moved to a small town in Texas panhandle. The tornado shelter at our house had tons of brown recluses. The little fiddles on the back are neat to see. I turned a few into paperweights.
Nice. I love C. salei (-a very cute fat one you have there -😄), H. davidbowie and jumping spiders. Cute little tired Nancy😍. I wouldn't have guessed that sandspiders can reach such high lifespans, pretty cool.
I’m not educated on the first species specifically, however from my knowledge of true spiders, it looks like you have a possible pair. One has quite long pedipalps and the second had quite shorter ones in comparison. This is mainly prominent in sexing spiders like wolf spiders and house spiders.
You pronounced Weinstadt perfectly!
I love this kind of videos buddy! You need to take a Kukulcania Hibernalis female! Darkest colours and scary funnel webs. I have raised many and they are really very interesting. I had one that lived 11 years in captivity (daily feeding, shekels of lighting, and even freedom...she always returned to her terrarium).
So happy that Nancy is still alive and well! I think she must be quite old now, unfortunately I haven't written down when this sac hatched.
Regarding her being uninterested in Sid, perhaps he just wasn't her type :/ Anyway, if you know the story of their namesakes, it might have been for the best :D
Greetings from Germany :)
Nice, I love true spiders
Me too. True spiders are my jam for keeping.
I also now keep a green native spider that looks like your orange cupienius salei!
Pronounced perfectly ❤
good to know :'D
I enjoy your vids! I live in South Africa and there are wild button spiders here. I don't know if your substrate is too loose for the web as I find here they make their web with hard bottom surfaces. Maybe some flat rock on the ground will help with their bungie web. Only an idea to try.
I love the H davidbowie -I just got one last month and he's super tiny but has no problem taking down crickets his size lol
Try flys with the widow s , it should be easier
🥰 love the enclosures Petki. Please can you manage two videos at least 1 week a month. Maybe? Think about it. I miss the two videos.
I dont know if its just me but Petkos english is getting so much better! This video was perfect! Great job!
since you're reducing your collection, would be cool if you made some sick unique naturalistic display setups for your true spiders and other critters, a la Serpa Design style, that way you would be able to enjoy them properly
I have the same problem with my widows when feeding. I think it's normal.
Spiders basically are divided into three suborders: mesothelae: liphistius only, mygalomorphae: real trapdoor spiders, tarantulas, linothele and others, araneomorphae: widows, nephilas, eresus and basically all other spiders
Hello great video information and updates and rehouseing Petcko
13:20 did David Bowie just follow One Direction?
Wow, that first on you rehoused (I can't remember it's name) is absolutely gorgeous (even though I am still spooked by spiders :D) Hahahaha, broken spiders... :D
Black Widows can go months without food. Keep their enclosure undisturbed and try again later, in a few weeks. Try different foods, it won't harm the spider.
I’ve never seen a black widow, with anything larger than a fly in my area
Cupiennius Salei male will be similarly coloured like the slings but much, much bigger. The females are going to get black with grey tigerstripes. They also are bright red on the underside.
Great vid Petko ..
awesome! glad the trapdoor is okay!
WAIT PETCO, your first video was posted on april 20th 2015, thats 9 years in 4 days, will we get a special episode? maybe a couch feeding?👀
Love true spiders ❤
You create really nice enclosures and have always improved over the years and it’s always made me curious as to why you’ve never made something nice for the sand spiders. I understand they just “hide” but so do most tarantulas. they could still be displayed 👍🏻 Can they climb glass?
I have a lactrodectus hesperus (western usa black widow) and it really prefers to eat small flying bugs. Maybe try your fruit flies! I put in roaches and they did same thing as yours, but the flying bugs I put in get caught better, you can leave them and the widow will eventually grab it
I love jumping spider s
Really enjoyed this video. My new term. For spider of their feed is "Broken spider".
If I don't remember wrong, the stickiness of a web is affected by temperature and humidity, so each spider has their own special web conditions, or maybe you are just having bad luck finding the sticky lines, not all the web it's sticky
Very very interesting! No one has real spiders. That I watch anyway. I find them more interesting than tarantulas.
Great video
If the widows aren't creating sticky silk for hunting but only make strong silk webbing structure.. maybe they don't feel secure or safe enough or they don't have enough open space to hang the sticky web and they might trap themselves...? (I'm just thinking out loud, don't know if any of this makes sense honestly 😅)
Linothele, the Curtain Web Spiders in Dipluridae, are not true spiders. They are Mygalomorphs :)
not to concern but spiders can determine the type of silk they produce, some is sticky some is strong etc. they use them for different purposes with different properties.
It could be that the widows are not hungry or otherwise not really intending to capture prey with it. I do have limited experience with widows though.
Try fruit flies for the tiny orb weavers! They might stick to their webs, roaches are very strong for their size
love your vids
great video as aways 😊 lisa 🇬🇧
Maybe crickets would work better with feeding the widows?
See you in Weinstadt 🎉
DARK DEN CLOSURES FOR THE WIN
Thats a lot of legs!
Hello from Greece 🇬🇷 you ar the best bro. Please greek subtitles 🙏
I sell leather belts and on my rack. I have a huge sign with the price yet half of my customers still ask what the prices 😂
A brown recluse can get _much_ larger than that. I had one in my house that had a leg-span of a whole finger (tip to knuckle). Definitely one of the larger true spiders I've actually seen with my own eyes.
Then the spider in your house was a brown recluse in the same way that literally EVERY brown spider in America is a brown recluse which is to say it 100% was not a brown recluse. The females only get to a 1 inch dls and males get to about half of that. Real brown recluse spiders are small but everyone THINKS they’ve found a brown recluse when they haven’t. You should check out the study that was done to find the range of the brown recluse, hey asked everyone who found one to send them in and out of all the ones sent in most states didn’t send in one real brown widow, and of the ones that did most sent in 90% other spiders except for maybe one or two states who had iirc like a 50% ratio.
I’m wondering if you had a southern house spider because those get commonly misidentified as brown recluse by locals and are definitely bigger than loxosceles reclusa.
@@IrishColin I do not live anywhere near the habitats of southern house spiders. Also, they look nothing like recluses, I don't know how people can get them confused. The long pedipalps, the eye configuration, is completely dissimilar. I don't know how large recluses get in the united states, but the ones here literally are that big.
I love tarantulas but true spiders creep me out a little bit 😅 I still love seeing videos on them though 💖
First.
Cheers Dark Den! Great vid!
Hello Petko !!
Sometimes they go on hunger strike.Someome had a tarantuka who hadn't eaten for 12 month.
Spiders, spider, spiders, spider in enclosures.
The l.geometric is the brown button if I remember correctly
sup,from seattle.please do vid on lifespans thanks
Water dishes are needed,
I'm sure you already know but your Curtain Web Spiders and Trapdoor Spider aren't true spiders, they are Mygalomorphs the same as your Tarantulas :) Is there any way to get your enclosures in Australia? I have a couple of Australian Tarantulas (Phlogius sp.) a Funnel Web (Hadronyche valida) and a massive golden Trapdoor Spider (Euoplos sp. Springbrook) and I love the look of your acrylic enclosures! Loving the awesome videos!!
The first one is a tiger wandering spider 👍
The Cupiennius salei
For no discernible reason, I have suddenly fallen in love with Sicarius thomisoides. I don't feel comfortable owning one at this moment in time but MAYBE one day......
🐟🐟🐟
How's the camel spider doing? I cant remember if you've shown it recently
Get some more funnel webs like the Thai, they’re super boring once they hide and even feedings are lame sometimes but unboxings and setups are fun to do.
Will you ever keep a wolf spider again?
Was that gold spider the same species of that? Blue and black one. You had a couple of years ago. Then I think you did a surgery on? It also had really long spinnerets.
I think they should live in the wild that's their home.
Reclass
Is one called David Bowie?!
Monday is for the spiders 🕷️
How is that ?
Feed the widows flies (:
are there also enclosers with more discrete logo?
my roaches always hide behind the logo!
The pronunciation of snacks is with a much shorter a vowel, it sounds like you're saying there's snakes in the enclosures which is a different thing! =)
You still have the orange Scorpions? And the Assassin bugs?
Orange scorpions yes, assassin bugs no
perfect pronounciation of "Weinstadt"!
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How are spiders able to walk upside down in this enclosure ? Do they got glue on theyr legs ?
tbh, I have no idea 🤣
@@TheDarkDen 🕷️ 😆
@@ojestero8778 they have tiny hooks on their feet, with them they can climb every material 🕷️
@@angela_tarantulas Nature is scary fr
Do you have tarantulas this channel?
Yes he does.
Cupiennius there is a attention seeker lol. He was posing and voguing on full display for you in those shots lol
🕸🕷🕸👍👍😉
Are there really people who have not removed the protective layer? seriously😂😂😂😂
Perhaps there should be some information in the box for those who are new to enclosures.
“New to enclosures” is a nice way of saying new to life, or perhaps new to buying ANYTHING that needs protective layers and also perhaps new to eyes.
And liphistius are not real trapdoor spiders, they're not like the native species in Europe, which are related to tarantulas.Liphistius are the most primitive living today spiders.They probably date back to carboniferous period, way before dinosaurs.
Sadly you got a dud female jumping spider..
It's common for breeders to keep good healthy females for themselves for breeding and sell Ther Unwanted, unusable stock first..
Second 😂
First!
This will be a true test for me. I'm arachnophobic and I'm okay with tarantulas by now but true spiders still get to me.🥲
good luck :)))
You’ll get there 😁 I started off terrified of all spiders and now I have 5 tarantulas and 3 true spiders. The true spiders took me a bit longer too but it’ll happen don’t worry 👍
Same here 😬 I got to the point where I think tarantulas are cute but I’m still so scared of spiders and panic when I see them in real life