Thank you for choosing a spider from ARACHNAMORIA. Here are some quick notes to unbox your new jumping spider. It's a good idea to read it through once before putting the steps into practice. Your spider is inside a smaller box, tucked up in their little travel pot. Unpack the smaller box and place it somewhere safe and quiet for your spider to acclimatise to the temperature inside your home. If the temperature outside is low your spider will be packed with a heat pack which you can remove and dispose of. this is when you can get their new home ready to transfer them into. Open the small box after the acclimation time and remove the travel pot. Open the pot near the enclosure and greet your little spider. BE WARNED: Little spoods can be wicked fast when they are frightened so open the pot above or inside the enclosure. It’s best to do this on a clear table and have everything to hand, maybe have a catch pot ready. Don’t panic though, they don’t often get far should they make a break for it. Travel can sometimes stimulate a moult, so if you spy a pair of discarded PJs (their moult), pop the whole open container inside the enclosure to wait for the little one to harden and leave the travel pot themselves. This may take a few days, so just mist near the pot once daily. If you don't spy those PJs, you can either pop the pot inside or coax them out into their new home. Feel free to offer food right away, though I will have fed them before they left. They may need to settle in first and eat later, or the travel may have spurred them into pre-moult, so they may choose not to eat for a while. Just keep misting once a day and refer to the blog 'To moult or Not To Moult' on the Arachnamoria website to ease your worries.
Your new spood is currently eating large fruit flies called D.Hydei. They will be happy with these until they are a little bigger. As a rule of thumb, you can move them up to a bigger food when the food insect is just a little smaller than them. Big meals and overfeeding can cause issues, so have a read of the ‘Feeding’ and ‘When to Upgrade’ blog posts for more info.
After they have had something to eat with you, you can start getting to know your spider. Let them adjust to the vibrations of your voice and your human smell, and then you can begin interacting. Check out the 'Handling' blog for tips and tricks
Want to know more about the sex of your spider and how they age? Well, Arachnamoria has a blog for that too!
The serious bit: Should the rare but heart-breaking issue of a spider not making the journey occur, please take a picture of the spider and damage to the packing, should there be any.
Please send it to me either by email using the contact page or the Arachnamoria Facebook page using messenger.
After the first 24hrs in your care, the spider becomes your responsibility solely. Please ensure your husbandry is spot on to keep your spider healthy and happy. The Arachnamoria website has a care sheet, a baby spider care blog, and numerous other blog topics to help you do this.
Should you have any questions, I am always happy to help.
Kind regards,
Sian the Spider Wrangler
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