CATDOLL : CATDOLL: A Beginner's Tutorial on Raising Spiders (A Beginner's Tutorial on Raising Spiders Video)

1. Newbie to raising spiders?

First of all, if you want to raise a spider, you must prepare the necessary tools in advance. Find a suitable transparent box with a lid and lock the spider inside to prevent it from escaping. Then, in order to avoid being bitten by the spider, you can also prepare a pair of tweezers for daily feeding. In addition, a watering bottle is also necessary.

Secondly, different spiders have different requirements for air humidity and temperature. Keepers can adjust according to the species of spiders they catch. Generally speaking, the humidity should not exceed 70%. The temperature that spiders adapt to is generally around 25℃, so remember to keep them warm in winter.

2. How to raise spiders and what should you pay attention to?

How to raise spiders:

1. There are many species of spiders, and they have a variety of diets, are resistant to hunger, have strong vitality, and are easy to raise. As long as they have food, water, and shelter, they can be raised normally. For example, the main species of spiders raised as pets at home are: bird spiders, black widow spiders, golden spiders, burrowing wolf spiders, Chinese wolf spiders, big-bellied orb spiders, etc. These are all non-toxic spiders with high economic value and are very suitable for novices to raise.

2. For raising hunting spiders, generally large-mouthed cans, wide-mouthed bottles, and specimen bottles can be used as raising tools. However, the bottle mouth should be sealed with double-layer gauze and some twisted cardboard or small firewood stalks should be placed inside for the spiders to climb and hide. For raising web-making spiders, the spider cage is made of white plastic window screens, with a length, width, and height of 20 cm each. A circular hole with a diameter of 10 cm is opened on one side of the cage, and a cloth bag with two empty ends is sewn to the edge of the circular hole as an operating hole. The cloth bag is usually tied with a rubber band and opened only when operating. The four corners of the cage are fixed to the cage frame with four cloth straps to fix the spider cage into shape.

3. Regarding the feeding of spiders, the smaller the spider, the higher the feeding frequency, and the larger the spider, the lower the frequency. Spiders do not need to be fed for a period of time after molting, because their exoskeletons have not yet hardened. Feeding live feed at this time may cause harm to the spider. Similarly, if the spider stops eating, the live feed left in the breeding box must be removed to prevent the spider from being harmed during the molting period. Now raising spiders is becoming more and more popular and fashionable. Spiders as alternative pets have been accepted and loved by more people. But when raising spiders, you still have to pay attention. Because spiders are poisonous, but the degree of toxicity of different species of spiders is different. In the process of raising spiders, you must be careful not to be bitten by spiders, and disinfect them in time when you are about to be bitten. And the breeder must not raise spiders with very strong toxicity.

3. How to raise spiders so that they will get close to you?

1. Prepare a ventilated breeding box, put coconut soil, sterile soil and other substrates in it, and place hiding holes and fake trees according to the habits of the spider species. Spiders need to hunt by themselves. There is no need to put too many unnecessary objects in the breeding box.

2. Keep the breeding temperature between 17-25℃ and the humidity at around 65%. You can put a small water cup with some cotton in it.

3. Mainly feed crickets, locusts, moths, etc. The remaining food residues should be cleaned up and the coconut soil should be replaced regularly. This substrate is easy to breed bacteria, and if it is not replaced in time, it will easily cause the spider to become sick or even die.

2. What should you pay attention to when raising spiders?

1. The breeding temperature should be around 25℃. The temperature difference between day and night should not be too large. Pay attention to cooling down in summer to prevent heatstroke, and pay attention to heating up in winter to keep warm.

2. Adjust the humidity according to the species of spider, generally keep it at 65-70%. If it is too low, the spider may become dehydrated.

3. A good ventilation environment can make spiders strong, reduce diseases, and help them safely pass through each molting.

4. Avoid direct sunlight.

5. The spider's molting is controlled by the secretory hormones of the secretory cells in the ganglia of the brain and the abdominal ganglia. There are usually signs. First, the spider's activity decreases before molting, and it looks for a quiet place, does not eat or move, enters a semi-dormant state, and other metabolic activities are in a weak state; second, the body shape, the abdomen is obviously enlarged, the skin is rough, the body segments are clear, and there are cracks.

3. What are the varieties of pet spiders?

Common pet spiders include the Intellectual Red Rose, Intellectual Fire Rose, Mexican Red Knees, Mexican Fire Legs, Honduras Curly, Guatemalan Red Tail, etc.

Some spiders are docile, but some are poisonous and aggressive. We should try not to handle them directly during daily breeding. It is best to use tools to touch them.

4. How to raise tarantulas?

A beginner's guide to catching tarantulas

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Choose a feed that matches your spider's body. Generally, feed it live food that is 1/4-1/3 the size of a pet tarantula. Too large a food is likely to make the spider feel powerless and give up, while too small a food is not conducive to large spiders catching it. From small to large, you can choose: pinhead crickets; newly hatched cherry cockroaches; newly hatched Dubia cockroaches; mealworms; crickets; mealworms (strong fighting power). You can increase the diversity of feed and give your spider a rich enough menu.

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Feeding time: The larger the spider, the longer the feeding time interval can be. My feeding habit is: the belly is slightly larger than the carapace.

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Eating is often a slow process for spiders, so just clean up the leftovers the next day.

5. A super guide to keeping tarantulas?

1. Unboxing and rest

Most players will choose to buy spiders online, so the breeding process starts from unpacking the package. You also need to learn how to unpack:

1. Take out everything from the packaging (including soil, tweezers, dropper, etc.).

2. Put the free or purchased breeding soil into the breeding box (the thickness of the soil should be about one-third of the box, and it should be thicker for burrowing spiders). If there is free bark, put it in as well and adjust the angle you think the spider will like.

3. Take the spider out of the shipping box. I would like to emphasize that if you buy some spiders that grow relatively fast, you need to find a storage box or a similar cardboard box to put over the pudding box or breeding box used to transport the spider, and then find a convenient place to put it.

4. Drive the spider into the breeding box and tighten the lid (some species are very fast, so be careful).

5. Rest! Experience tells us that this step is more important for beginners, as it is directly related to whether the spider can eat smoothly. During the resting process, please do not disturb the spider unless you add humidity.

6. After resting for 3-5 days, you can feed the spider.

2. Feeding

1. Start eating

This is probably a question that many friends always ask. There are many reasons why the food doesn't start, I will list them one by one below:

(1) It is very common that your spider is about to shed its skin. If it usually eats, but suddenly stops eating for a few days, it generally means that your spider is about to shed its skin, so what you need to do now is not to feed it, just rest and wait for your spider to shed its skin smoothly.

(2) The spider has just been received from the courier a few days ago, and the spider does not eat. This is also a common problem. It is mainly because the spider needs to adapt to the environment. The spider is very scared of the new unfamiliar environment. Therefore, the current solution is to choose to rest. After a few days of adaptation, the spider will eat.

(3) Uncomfortable environment. The problem here is usually that the soil is too wet. The solution is to dry the soil. Because most spiders that people raise are terrestrial (there is no need to talk about arboreal spiders, anyway, they are spiders that love high humidity), so the humidity requirement is not very high. Adult spiders prefer a drier environment, so make the soil a little drier.

(4) The spider lacks water. The main way for spiders to get water is from food. However, if the weather is dry or they do not drink water for a long time, the spiders will usually show signs of loss of appetite, weak limbs and lack of energy. Therefore, you can usually put a water bowl about 5 cm deep. Be sure to keep the water clean, and the water bowl should not be too large, otherwise the young spiders will drown.

(5) The food is too big. This is also a problem I have found many friends have. Generally, the larvae that people buy are 3L or a little larger. Spiders of this size cannot eat a mealworm, so you need to cut the mealworm into small pieces. When you throw it in, it will suck the contents. When it is about three centimeters, it can catch larger food on its own.

(6) The spider was very full.

(7) You always touch the spider, or make too much noise when feeding it, or you hold the spider in front of it, or you stare at it while it eats, or you drive it to eat, etc. If you do the above, it is natural that the spider will not eat, because spiders like to eat in a quiet environment, and they will not eat if they are frightened. So pay attention to the feeding method, that is, just throw it in. It takes time for the spider to eat. It sucks slowly, not swallowing. The spider's mouth is not the pair of fangs, but behind the fangs, so it takes a process.

(8) Spiders generally do not eat food that is completely dead. Or you may ask, wouldn’t mealworms die if they were cut? No, although mealworms or barley worms are cut to death, they still have a breath.

6. What are the precautions and taboos for novices in raising spiders?

1 Precautions: Before raising spiders, you should understand their habits and nutritional needs, provide them with appropriate feed and water, clean their living environment regularly, and prevent them from being infected with germs. 2 Taboos: Do not touch spiders at will, do not expose them to direct sunlight, do not feed them too much raw meat and animal offal, and do not place different types of spiders in the same container. 3 Content extension: Raising spiders can cultivate people's observation ability and sense of responsibility, but they also need to pay attention to safety and hygiene issues. In the process of raising spiders, you can learn a lot about animals and ecology, and you can also understand the differences and characteristics between different types of spiders.

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