How to raise pet spiders? How to raise pet spiders

Spiders can be kept indoors or outdoors.

If it is a large-scale cultivation, you can use wooden boxes, cement ponds. If it is a small amount of canned food bottles, glass jars, and lampshades, it will do. It feeds on a variety of foods, mainly feeding meat, such as flies, crickets, locusts, etc.

It can also be fed artificial feed, mixed with milk, egg yolk, once a week. In addition, pay attention to anti-escape measures to avoid escaping.

The lifestyle of spiders can be divided into two main categories. That is, the nomadic type and the sedentary type. Safari type spiders, spiders that hunt everywhere, hunt, have no fixed residence, do not build webs, do not burrow, and do not build nests.

There are scaly arachnidae, ursoaradae and most tarantulas. Sedentary: some build nets, some dig holes, and some build nests as fixed dwellings.

The aspects that need to be paid attention to when raising pet spiders are the breeding box, temperature, humidity, coconut soil, and feeding, etc.

1. Breeding box

It is necessary to choose a suitable breeding box and rent a game to avoid (generally bark, but there are also other materials to dodge). Arboreal spiders need tall boxes, while the flat ones of the ground can do. And the box should not be too big or too small, and it is necessary to choose a box of moderate size.

2. Temperature

Keeping a pet spider requires controlling the temperature. In particular, most of the bird-catching spiders are tropical species, so the temperature requirements are relatively high, generally speaking, it cannot be lower than 20 degrees.

3. Humidity

Also because of the reason from the tropics, especially from the rainforest climate environment of pet spiders, generally speaking, there are high requirements for air humidity, but the air humidity can not be too high, so it is also necessary to buy a hygrometer.

4. Coconut soil

Change the coconut soil frequently, and the coconut soil is the bedding material for raising pet spiders. In general, sterile coconut clay is used that is commercially available. However, because it is generally used after soaking, it is easier to find small white particles mixed with coconut soil, so be sure to clean it on time.

5. Feeding

The main food of spiders is a variety of live insects, such as crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, etc., and occasionally some small lizards, suckling rats or other small animals.

Spiders eat miscellaneous, mainly eat some insects, flying insects, mosquitoes or flies are eaten, if possible, butterflies, flies, mealworms, locusts and crickets These insects are high-quality food sources for spiders.

What to do if you are bitten by a pet spider.

Many times we also hear about being bitten by spiders. There are two types of spiders that bite people, one is very weak and the other is poisonous.

Being bitten by a weakly venomous spider is relatively easy to deal with, but being bitten by a venomous spider can have serious consequences and even lead to death. All spiders are venomous, only the magnitude of the poison is different.

In addition, generally small spiders under 5 cm do not bite, and only bite when they are big. Whether the pet spider bites or not depends on the situation, if you provoke it, it may bite, whether it is poisonous or not, it depends on the variety, but generally when the pet buys the spider is a larger spider, it is usually poisonous.

1. Bitten by a poisonous spider.

If you are unfortunately bitten by such spiders, you must first tie the wound tightly with a bandage or rope to slow down the flow of venom. Apply an ice pack or a cold towel to the wound. Then send it to the hospital in time for **.

Bites from such venomous spiders must be carried out with professional antitoxin medications**.

2. Being bitten by a spider with weak toxicity.

The bite area should be washed with soap and water as soon as possible, and then a cold towel or cloth should be applied to the wound. Adults who have been bitten may be given aspirin or acetaminophen to relieve the bite symptoms, and if the symptoms are severe, they will need to go to the hospital. If the bite is a child, it should be taken to the hospital after cleaning, and the child should not be given aspirin.

Wait for the doctor's diagnosis and follow the doctor's instructions**.

The spider feeding steps are as follows:

1. Spider breeding can be placed indoors or outdoors, if it is a large-scale breeding, it can be done with the help of wooden boxes and cement ponds.

2. If it is a small amount of canned food bottles, glass jars, and lampshades, it is OK.

3. It has a miscellaneous diet, mainly feeding meat, such as flies, crickets, locusts, etc. It can also be fed artificial feed, mixed with milk, egg yolk, once a week. In addition, pay attention to anti-escape measures to avoid escaping.

4. Spiders are the most abundant predatory natural enemies in terrestrial ecosystems, and their role in maintaining the stability of agricultural and forestry ecosystems cannot be ignored.

The steps to set up a home for a spider are as follows:

1. Take out the small square box from the packing box, open the lid of the box, carefully take out the centrifuge tube containing the spider, and set it aside. Most birdcatchers need to be kept separately, one spider per box.

2. Pour the coconut clay into one-third of the box, and recite a few drops of water, then compact the coconut clay and put it on to hide.

3. Pick up the centrifuge tube, open the lid, pick up the paper towel inside with a clip, and gently pull it out. If you're lucky, it will lazily come out with the paper towel, and then gently put the paper towel into the small square box and close the lid. If it doesn't come out with the tissue, you just unscrew the lid of the tube and put it whole in the box, and it will slowly crawl out over the next few days.

4. Because of the long-term transportation and the unfamiliarity of the new environment, most spiders may not eat after settling down, so it is recommended to rest for 2 to 3 days before feeding. You need to be hydrated during the rest process, but try not to alarm the spiders.

5. If the baby is the kind of spider that is very fast, you need to find a sorting box or similar cardboard box to cover outside the pudding box or breeding box for transporting spiders, in case the spider "flashes over the wall".

The method of breeding spiders is as follows:

If you want to raise baby spiders, the necessary tools must be prepared in advance. Find a suitable transparent box with a lid and keep the spider inside in case you escape. Then to avoid being bitten by a spider, you can also prepare a pair of tweezers for daily feeding of the empty key.

In addition, the bottle of watering should not be less.

Different spiders have different humidity and temperature requirements for the air, and the keeper can adjust it according to the species of spider caught. Generally speaking, the humidity should not exceed 70%, and the temperature that the spider adapts to is generally around 25, so remember to keep it warm in winter. Spiders generally prefer to eat insects, such as crickets, cockroaches, etc.

However, keepers need to be careful not to give insects that exceed the size of the spider, as it may scare it and eventually refuse to eat.

Coconut clay for raising spiders

Owners don't have to worry too much about the replacement of the coconut soil, because the coconut soil that raises them has undergone special treatment and has been sterilized when it is sold. And they can be recycled as bedding, as long as the owner pays attention to disinfecting them during normal times.

The main reason why many owners want to change the coconut soil for spiders is because the coconut soil will give off its smell after a period of use. But this is a normal phenomenon because the coconut earth itself carries a certain flavor. After two months, the smell will be bigger and mixed with a musty smell, but this will not affect the spiders.

If the owner is worried about their physical damage because of the smell and changes them frequently, it is easy to cause them to be frightened.