I have a number of spiders in jars right now. Are the grates/air vents small enough to now have immediate escapes? Especially widows? I’m afraid my juvenile widow would get out easily
if you're still dealing with mold, what is your setup like? do you have dirt as substrate? a mix of improper ventilation and substrate that's too wet can induce mold growth. I'd increase your ventilation and replace the substrate and keep it drier. best to you and your spider!
@ hey thank you, i have several jumping spiders 🕷️ a newborn baby jumping and 2 sub adult female black widows, 1 that is either a male black widow or a brown widow I can’t figure it out but I am leaning toward male brown widow, and one adult female grass spider. I have tried several different substrates, I tried at first for several tries live plants and dirt with the widows, and I use sticks from outside to finish the set up’s for all of them but last year I had one female black widow and used all fake plants and no substrate just brown duct tape to make it look brown. And never got mold, and this year I did the live plants, got mold on the sticks, and the ground, everything after a while, and now I have a cut out sheet of fake grass glued to the bottom of one of the female widows and the other female I have glued down tiny pebbles, and for the baby jumping I have no substrate at all, and she’s good, and the 2 adult jumping spiders I have a piece of glued fake grass down and one juvenile jumping I have like loose moss, and there’s a tiny bit in his, so I am starting to think it’s 1 I spray too may sprays when I do like I spray 4/5 times when I prob just need one spray, and I need more ventilation I have been thinking of stopping using sticks but I love the look of it and it comes out so good each time and iv worked so hard on all of them :( lol
@@QuintessentialUltimatum it sounds like you're doing a great job with your spoods! i only recently got my first black widow (confirmed female latrodectus hesperus) and so far my setup is doing great for her, no mold issues. i've got her in a large tarantula cribs brand coffin enclosure with some cocoa fiber + eco earth as substrate with a few long sticks and some leaf litter. she gets her moisture almost entirely from the bugs i give her (gut-loaded medium crickets and mealworms) and once every 2 weeks i give one light spray to the webbing where she's not hanging out, as so far she's doing great. i would say definitely reduce the amount you're spraying as they don't need much humidity and get most of their moisture from the food they eat, and i would also advise against the live plants; black widows in the wild tend to hang out in closed, dark spaces without plant growth, like ceiling corners, sheds, and garages, and introducing live plants means you have to provide more moisture and light than the widows enjoy. if you replace the substrate with clean substrate, increase ventilation, remove the live plants, and only mist one light spray on the web every couple of weeks, hopefully that should improve the mold issue. hope this helps!
@@ipushanorexickids5372 I noticed the larger the enclosure for a black widow specifically, I have had several, over several seasons now, still learning about other spiders, but for black widows they larger area they have the thinner their webs are spread out and just randomly all over the place, instead of really compact and layered on top of one area or one little “tree” area so when you go to feed them, which I use a ton of different options, but the majority of the time I just use crickets because I have tons of other spiders and mostly because I have a pet toad (the toad is where it all started) but I have found out and had serious serious issues when their webs are spread too far out from each next strand, that when you put their food into the web the bug will not be stuck by enough webbing, just one or two strands, if that. And not all of the widows web strands that she lays as she walks around are meant to be super sticker for food to be attached so I find myself having a serious issue with putting her food in a part of the web and even when I really try to get it all up in there where it’s stuck to the densest and stickiest area the bug will just wiggle (especially the crickets 🦗) and then just land on the ground and once the big lands on the ground no matter what the widow will want nothing to do with it even if it is still alive, I have had an issue like this with several of mine over the last couple of years, and there is pretty much absolutely no way to get the alive bugs out of the enclosure because the widow and the widows web is in the way and it is just very dangerous in my opinion. It has been so bad with my last widow I had an entire population of wax worms and crickets, ect. On the ground just living their own life and nothing would stick to her web…. So after all of that, I have learned having a smaller enclosure actually is best for widows. And they need one little tree like structure right in the middle that that will just web the crap out of so when you feed them their food will actually stay and stuck. And yes I even tried to pull the legs off of the crickets and it still did not work. And I would really even appreciate any advice to be honest as well thank you.
Neat idea with the sand and glue mix. Definitely trying that
It actually worked really well
I have a number of spiders in jars right now. Are the grates/air vents small enough to now have immediate escapes? Especially widows? I’m afraid my juvenile widow would get out easily
Good question and honestly I’m not sure
*How do you stop mold?!? PLEADE HELP*
Proper ventilation will do the trick
if you're still dealing with mold, what is your setup like? do you have dirt as substrate? a mix of improper ventilation and substrate that's too wet can induce mold growth. I'd increase your ventilation and replace the substrate and keep it drier. best to you and your spider!
@ hey thank you, i have several jumping spiders 🕷️ a newborn baby jumping and 2 sub adult female black widows, 1 that is either a male black widow or a brown widow I can’t figure it out but I am leaning toward male brown widow, and one adult female grass spider.
I have tried several different substrates, I tried at first for several tries live plants and dirt with the widows, and I use sticks from outside to finish the set up’s for all of them but last year I had one female black widow and used all fake plants and no substrate just brown duct tape to make it look brown. And never got mold, and this year I did the live plants, got mold on the sticks, and the ground, everything after a while, and now I have a cut out sheet of fake grass glued to the bottom of one of the female widows and the other female I have glued down tiny pebbles, and for the baby jumping I have no substrate at all, and she’s good, and the 2 adult jumping spiders I have a piece of glued fake grass down and one juvenile jumping I have like loose moss, and there’s a tiny bit in his, so I am starting to think it’s 1 I spray too may sprays when I do like I spray 4/5 times when I prob just need one spray, and I need more ventilation
I have been thinking of stopping using sticks but I love the look of it and it comes out so good each time and iv worked so hard on all of them :( lol
@@QuintessentialUltimatum it sounds like you're doing a great job with your spoods! i only recently got my first black widow (confirmed female latrodectus hesperus) and so far my setup is doing great for her, no mold issues. i've got her in a large tarantula cribs brand coffin enclosure with some cocoa fiber + eco earth as substrate with a few long sticks and some leaf litter. she gets her moisture almost entirely from the bugs i give her (gut-loaded medium crickets and mealworms) and once every 2 weeks i give one light spray to the webbing where she's not hanging out, as so far she's doing great.
i would say definitely reduce the amount you're spraying as they don't need much humidity and get most of their moisture from the food they eat, and i would also advise against the live plants; black widows in the wild tend to hang out in closed, dark spaces without plant growth, like ceiling corners, sheds, and garages, and introducing live plants means you have to provide more moisture and light than the widows enjoy. if you replace the substrate with clean substrate, increase ventilation, remove the live plants, and only mist one light spray on the web every couple of weeks, hopefully that should improve the mold issue. hope this helps!
Could you do a tarantula setup
Yep 👍🏼
Hey. I have a 180L that I will turn into a spider enclosure through time. I want my first to be a black widow. Is my aquarium too big?
Nope
NO SUCH THING!!! Remember that out in the wild, animals aren't limited! There is only a MINIMUN required space when housing any sort of pet.
@@ipushanorexickids5372 I noticed the larger the enclosure for a black widow specifically, I have had several, over several seasons now, still learning about other spiders, but for black widows they larger area they have the thinner their webs are spread out and just randomly all over the place, instead of really compact and layered on top of one area or one little “tree” area so when you go to feed them, which I use a ton of different options, but the majority of the time I just use crickets because I have tons of other spiders and mostly because I have a pet toad (the toad is where it all started) but I have found out and had serious serious issues when their webs are spread too far out from each next strand, that when you put their food into the web the bug will not be stuck by enough webbing, just one or two strands, if that. And not all of the widows web strands that she lays as she walks around are meant to be super sticker for food to be attached so I find myself having a serious issue with putting her food in a part of the web and even when I really try to get it all up in there where it’s stuck to the densest and stickiest area the bug will just wiggle (especially the crickets 🦗) and then just land on the ground and once the big lands on the ground no matter what the widow will want nothing to do with it even if it is still alive, I have had an issue like this with several of mine over the last couple of years, and there is pretty much absolutely no way to get the alive bugs out of the enclosure because the widow and the widows web is in the way and it is just very dangerous in my opinion. It has been so bad with my last widow I had an entire population of wax worms and crickets, ect. On the ground just living their own life and nothing would stick to her web…. So after all of that, I have learned having a smaller enclosure actually is best for widows. And they need one little tree like structure right in the middle that that will just web the crap out of so when you feed them their food will actually stay and stuck.
And yes I even tried to pull the legs off of the crickets and it still did not work.
And I would really even appreciate any advice to be honest as well thank you.
What size is the small medium or large
Not sure I’ll have to look
It’s a large