Does anyone keep other spiders

[scooter]

Reading the Hangman's Curse post where it was stated that a movie portrayed Rosie's as Brown Recluse made me wonder if anyone keeps other spiders besides T's.

I've seen a couple pictures of others in the photo's section, and someone mentioned having a widow.

I personally kept a black widow with a sac, until they all hatched out and engulfed a desk in hammock-stlye web.

In Tennessee, bw's are abundant, and easy to find.

[cacoseraph]

i have a baby Phiddipus jumping spider i'm raising from hatching

a small brown spider i'm trying to ID for a coworker

a giant crab spider (Olios giganteus/gigantes) who refuses to carry an eggsac to term

[Greg Wolfe]

I have a black widow in a jar in my kitchen. Brian S. sent me this beauty he caught near his home. Something different. :D

[Christoph]

Hey,
I keep:

Labidognatha:
0.0.3 Ancylometes bogotensis
0.0.2 Cupiennius coccineus
0.0.3 Cupiennius getazi
0.1.0 Cupiennius salei (with a nice cocon)
0.1.0 Latrodectus variolus
0.1.0 Latrodectus menavodi
0.2.0 Loxosceles laeta
0.0.3 Lycosa tarantula
0.0.1 Heteropoda spec.
0.0.1 Holconia immanis
0.0.2 Peucetia madagascariensis
2.1.0 Peucetia spec.

Orthogantha

0.1.0 Ctenizidae spec.
0.0.10 Dipluride spec.
0.1.0 Idiopidae spec.
1.1.0 Macrothele spec. "Taiwan"

[Dark Raptor]

Tagenaria atrica
Araneus diadematus
Different Salticidae species, like Salticus scenicus and Evarcha spp.

[Joe1968]

as Greg mentioned, I also have L. mactans that my good buddy BrianS sent me heres some pics. in the past I kept some garden spiders but they didnt lived long.

[Scorpendra]

one hogna radiata. i have my sights on a dysderia crocata once summer rolls around, but a wolf is enough for now :)

[ta2edpop]

I have a Black Widow that is huge. She eats all the time, and stays out in open. I had a little wolf spider, but God rest his soul. I think widows really make for a nice display spider.

[scooter]

Thanks all, for the responses, especially the nice pics. Perhaps we can trade our native species and expand our collections !

[scooter]

Spider-Eye: You Rock !

[oblivion56]

i have trechona venosa

[Steven]

DAMN ! That trechona venosa RULES :worship: !


my current "true spider" list:

- Ancylometes bogotensis
- Barychelidae spec.
- Cupiennius coccineus
- Cupiennius getazi
- Cupiennius salei
- Dipluride spec.
- Heteropoda venatoria
- Hogna spec. Israël (forest)
- Hogna spec. Israël (desert)
- Holconia immanis
- Kukulcania hibernalis
- Latrodectus geometricus
- Latrodectus menavodi
- Latrodectus tredecimguttatus
- Latrodectus variolus
- Lycosa spec. Greece
- Lycosa spec. Israël
- Lycosa tarantula
- Macrothele calpeiana
- Nephilengys borbonica livida
- Sparassidae spec. Israël
- Olios spec.

[Raqua]

I would love to have Lycosa tarentula ... and some Nephila as well.

[Rabid Flea]

I know that here in "The Valley" in Los Angeles, widows are everywhere! I had one run across my back as I was laying on my floor typing replies on AB! Now she is resident of one of my deli cups. I worked for a storage company that was infested with widows. Im going back there tomorrow and collecting a few just for kicks. Im not joking, every day we saw about 20 widows at any given time when checking the locks on all of the storages. Never thought of them as pets though.

[taorchard1987]

Id love to be able to find a spider wondering around the house and keep it as a pet, the problem is here ion England weve got boring spiders, we never see anything different to a normal house spider which freek me out, there big n skinny errrr :(

[baboons24]

Me and my girlfriend keep a big hobo spider. She caught it behind her parents house in seattle. it has a leg span of about 3 inches. the thing is a savage it will eat anything you put in with her including other spiders. :)

[strat321]

hello-

a few weeks ago I would of said no just Ts.

But.....

I now have a large black widow and a misgolas (yet to see it, but it's feeding!) that were given to me.


then again a few months ago, I would have said I only will get 4-5 Ts and those are only the new world calm docile ones.....(now up to about 17 Ts) LOL
also a free lasidora and a free usumbara changed that real quick.
later...

[Nerri1029]

Last Fall I tried to keep a Fishing Spider- Dolomedes tenebrosus

went through two molts and died.. poss. male? not sure..

will try again..

[prang11]

I have a 2 spiders I caught in my room. No clue exactly what they are. But one of them had an egg sac and it hatched so now I have a zillion little ones. They are escape artists I tell you. Had to move the container outside for a day or two so they woudlnt be running all around my room.

[T-Harry]

Well, as i posted in an other thread I bought a spider recently that was declared as an Oligoxystre spec. Chile. But as I was told the same species also sells as Acanthogonatus francki. So it depends on wheter it is actually the first one or the latter because Acanthogonatus does not belong to the Theraphosidae but to the Nemiidae.

[SPIDERBYTE]

I sometimes catch a "Funnel web" spider (Agelenopsis type) as a "desktop pet" I have built a tiny "terrarium" out of the clear plastic parts of cassette boxes. Doesn't take long to web all over the box, really don't need a substrate in this case.

-just a spiderling, rather fat and probably due for a molt..