upwith inverts!
04-23-2009, 08:19 PM
Title's a mouthful. So to the point. I was eating at the main local restaurant, and it has a small (~ 7" x 10" ) pond behind it. so I go out to the pond for some fresh air, and notice some fishing spiders (If someone could tell me what species these are, I don't have pics, but I found them in the gap between Denver and Castle Rock, and they are 3/4 to 1 inch LS). The other thing I notice is that they where occasionally 1/2 inch from each other. So I have some tarantula viles, and caught about 3. (I also caught 7 more in the pond behind my house, which has hundreds of them). So noticing this communal (or should I say not not communal)behavior I fill one of my spare cages (1'x1'x2') about 1/3 way with water, make some land in it, and put the spiders in, along with some snails and some algae with some of these smaller bugs I saw them eating, so as to create an ecosystem. I caught 2 mature females, 2 mature males, 1 gravid or really fat female, and 5 immatures. Day 2, and no cannibalism, 2 molts, and almost all ate except for the 2 that molted. I am a total newb to true spiders, so did I just state a bunch of well known facts?