That’s the best explanation for mites I’ve heard. It’s all so conflicting when you try to read up on it but this makes total sense. Thank you for some clarity!
If you want to make the fruit fly feeding easier, you can anesthetize them by placing them in a fridge/freezer. That's what I had to do while working on a breeding project in my genetics class
I love how I learn so much from your videos please don't stop making them you have been so fun to watch it even helps me with my anxiety! Lots of love and support from one of your fans here in Harrison Arkansas 🖤🌹🖤🌹🖤
This video was actually perfect in helping me. I threw like 7 cricket eggs in my T. Stirmi enclosure because its warm and humid (I heard it's perfect for crickets to hatch so I wanted to see if it would work) but noticed small white mites. I put a water droplet on the back of my phone camera to turn it into a microscope and they look like the mites in your video, white with a red or brown dot on the back. Hearing you say they should be harmless made me feel better 😂 thank you
Love your videos SO much!! I was wondering if you could do/have ever thought of doing a video about what it's like being a mother in the tarantula hobby? I've encountered many strange looks or harsh opinions from other moms when they learn my hobby is caring for venomus arachnids and I'm super curious about your perspective!! Sending much love!!
We don't really have any wild caught jumping spiders (Phidippus) here in germany all you can get are offsprings from the same few that got imported years ago. We have some from the Bahamas, Apalachicola (Nord Florida) and some other places in Florida. They're also pretty exotic and expensive for such short living spiders so not that many people keep them as pets. But the good thing is that you always know exactly how old they are and where they come from. The husbandry and breeding is also not really difficult so thats a win. x)
Every single jumping spider I've had I've caught in my back yard. I have a small enclosure for them with model buildings and figures. It looks like a 1950s style sci fi monster movie. They seem to enjoy it.
Can I just say that shirt rocks? That's an awesome shirt. Pretty neat to watch all your critters eat too! And cool to learn about those mites, which appear to be the vultures of the microcosm.
Also, if you see a lot of spring tails on your tarantula, maybe checknit out. I saw this once and I was looking cause he was in semi- death curl. He did unfortunately pass away, and I thought it was just dehydration from after his molt. Well, when I preserved him in resin, I saw a crack/cut on his carapace, right by where the spring tails were communing. I think he had trouble with his molt and got injured, and the spring tails were atracted to the leaking haemolymph.
From what I've heard, if you cut one of the holes on the lid on the fruit flies and bung it with a cotton ball, when you want one you can just pull the cotton ball out and use the 2 or 3 that are on it :) Awesome video as usual!
If you do have a large mite population and you are concerned that they are affecting your invert, you can also introduce a predatory mite such as Phytoseiulus sp. These mites will hunt down and kill any other mites in the container and then live on as a clean-up crew. Although they do sometimes make a home on the invert too, as is the case with my Hissing Roaches. However, they don't cause the roaches any harm. They do take a couple of weeks to reproduce in big enough numbers to impact the other mites' population but they are very effective and remove the need to dry out a container which might put an invert at risk of dying from desiccation. Also, they can be a bit pricey for tight budgets. Hope that helps.
Most mites outside of Ts natural habitat, are infact mostly herbivores and occasionally scavengers. They will attach themselves to larger animals to catch a ride to whereever has better living conditions. Mites will try to leave the habitat when there is TOO much moisture or fungus spores. Very interesting animals actually. Im certain some dude who work with mites have a post about them on arachnoboards if anyone wants better explanation!
I am in Brisbane Aus and our huntsmen run around the house and at by morning might be at the other side of the house, I am surprised to see them surviving in tiny containers
I had mites in my Ceratogyrus Darlingi enclosure for some reason the enclosure wouldn’t dry out, that coupled with the fact that I left a dead roach in there caused mites to multiply and feed on the roach.
Try dumping your fruit flies into your auxiliary feeding container outside that way if they run free, that mess is outside. Then try putting your separated out fruit flies in the fridge for 5min before feeding. Slows them down, you can easily dump them into your spiders enclosure and they will not be all over the place. Cheers :)
This was a great video and good to rewatch as I have watched it before but the explaination of the mites was very helpful so thanks for that and for all of your content 🤗
Mites are just the absolute worst they get everywhere I get them in my sling enclosures the vials if use slightly more moisture for the Asian species and then slightly miss any parts of boluses then bang an outbreak of mites it's a real pain but the good thing is that 90% of mites are harmless and are just scavengers
Have you ever had them escape an enclosure and get out into your house? Can they climb acrylic or glass? I'm in an apartment building and that's the one thing I worry about is winding up with a mite infestation. I already keep feeders in a container inside a container to make sure they go nowhere lol
Wow thanks for this information abaout mites :) Now i ´m calmed down....i recognized 2 of them in my little box from my little jumpingspider who was molting and i freaked out and clean all little boxes :D ....so in future i will not freak out again :D
You have added to my knowledge of mites (not difficult to do). I knew some mites were not harmful, but how to tell? So it comes down to whether they're on your T or not?! Great! If they are each holding a knife and fork, I'm getting rid of them.
Hi, I am new to taking care of jumping spiders and I am trying to do as much research as possible about them. I just want to make sure I am doing everything that needs to be done. I was wondering if you could make a video about jumping spider care and maybe some tips and tricks, fun facts, and maybe telling us how to tell if they are male or female? I love your UA-cam so I thought you would be the best to help out!!!!!! ❤❤❤thank you sm
I think you should lower the trap door spiders substrate because it cant feel vibration if its too high? thats what ive read before. love your vids btw
Im glad peaches is doing well she looks like a much happier spider now. also fruit flys they are a giant pain in the butt what I do is make a hole like 3cm round in the lidve their container and plug it w/ a piece of sponge. then you get a upside down spiderlet pot and use it to push sponge to the side a bit so you make a gap the flys will crawl through and the only place they can go is into the pot. but you would probaly have to make the hole before all the flys have hatched else they would all escape its not my idea I bought fruit fly pots that were already like it and it works really well so even tho the pots I get now dont have sponge I put one in myself
yeah, like, my hissing cockroaches have their own type of mites that LIVE on them. Gromphadorholaelaps schaeferi. they just live on them and are the cleanup crew. every mite is different. blood sucking are the ones you don't want.
Should one just ignore mites walking around or should you add in some spring tails to help? Completely over thinking this I’m sure but as a noob my heart dropped when I saw tiny white dots walking around my slings enclosure 🤦🏻♂️
Sudden spider death can be caused from parasites inside of crickets. At least I heard this from exotic lair and he has stopped giving his spiders crickets.
Given what you've said about mites, what's your opinion on nematodes(the little white worms)? I've come across numerous posts about them and how bad they are, but seem to find them in the same locations and situations as mites for the same reasons.
I really enjoy this channel! The information is given in a way that is really digestible for a newbie T owner. I'm inspired by Salem to ask a question about G. Pulchra (I got 2 slings as my first 2 tarantulas). One of the two buried itself completely. Like I can't even see it. It went into its hide and completely closed off the opening and hasn't come out in like 6 weeks. The other one did that, too but it went in later and has come back out. I don't want to disturb the one that's still buried if it's alive and doing its thing but I don't want to leave it in there indefinitely if it's dead. How long should I wait to check it out? If it's dead in there, will there be a smell? It's a 1 inch sling.
Kat i just got my tarantula back off my dad as my quarter master wouldn't let me have my tarantula in my army room. However i got her back now she look liked she been well feed and he seemed to do a fairly ok job looking after her but i noticed loads off mites in the tank. They look like grey small long things. They don't seem to be bothering the tarantula. The substrate is dry because that what she always seem to prefer i use coconut husk. Do you think it be ok to leave it for another 2 weeks or should i clean out the tank now
I hate fruit flies sooo much but if you put the ones your about to feed in the freezer for like 1-2 minutes they go into paralysis and go back to normal after a few minutes.
Hello Kat I'm new 2 ur channel and the hobby and I'm having a blast great stuff. Question I picked up my first Asian Forest Scorpion about a month ago but he's hasn't eaten. I offer food very few days, I've even left crickets in tank overnight but nothing. Any idea why he won't eat? Thanks and have a good one.
Ive got a chilobrachys huahini sling who has a knack for escaping his sling enclosures and im at my wits end with this very small old world. any tips or advice?? ive got him in a recycled petco pinhead cricket tub because its the only enclosure that seems to hold him for more than a minute.
I had mites on my taranutula mouth was verrrryy afraid that they were bad mites and could kill my T. So i went to Archnoboards ( Invert forum) i then showed them and they said they were grain mites. The 5years i kept ts i never had this happen to them. 😂😂😂
I have a question! Do you have any amazon affiliate links or anything? I’d like to buy some supplies and support you as well. I’m already a (new) Pateron member but I appreciate your content so much I’d like to support any way I can
If anyone was wondering the shirt she's wearing is from shop.morningwitch. com/ Just remove the spaces and there's so many cute designs Also love your videos!!!!!
That’s the best explanation for mites I’ve heard. It’s all so conflicting when you try to read up on it but this makes total sense. Thank you for some clarity!
If you want to make the fruit fly feeding easier, you can anesthetize them by placing them in a fridge/freezer. That's what I had to do while working on a breeding project in my genetics class
I love how I learn so much from your videos please don't stop making them you have been so fun to watch it even helps me with my anxiety! Lots of love and support from one of your fans here in Harrison Arkansas
🖤🌹🖤🌹🖤
Yay, cute velvet spider is back *-*
Also, your speech on mites was great! Thanks for educating people on this!
Mite inaugural speech. She’s the president of bugs.
Kat: "This is my mite colony Lucinda
, Fiona, Iola, Francisca, Darla, Genaro, Lavon, Irma, Melodie, Iesha, Shemika, Seema
, Lesley, Berniece, Domitila, Eldridge., Ardath, Sunni, Alma, Colene"
This video was actually perfect in helping me. I threw like 7 cricket eggs in my T. Stirmi enclosure because its warm and humid (I heard it's perfect for crickets to hatch so I wanted to see if it would work) but noticed small white mites. I put a water droplet on the back of my phone camera to turn it into a microscope and they look like the mites in your video, white with a red or brown dot on the back. Hearing you say they should be harmless made me feel better 😂 thank you
Love your videos SO much!!
I was wondering if you could do/have ever thought of doing a video about what it's like being a mother in the tarantula hobby? I've encountered many strange looks or harsh opinions from other moms when they learn my hobby is caring for venomus arachnids and I'm super curious about your perspective!!
Sending much love!!
We don't really have any wild caught jumping spiders (Phidippus) here in germany all you can get are offsprings from the same few that got imported years ago. We have some from the Bahamas, Apalachicola (Nord Florida) and some other places in Florida. They're also pretty exotic and expensive for such short living spiders so not that many people keep them as pets. But the good thing is that you always know exactly how old they are and where they come from. The husbandry and breeding is also not really difficult so thats a win. x)
Awe sorry for ur loss , Petko lost Sasha so sad for him !❤️👉🏻🥰
The velevet is just soo adorable. ❤️
Every single jumping spider I've had I've caught in my back yard. I have a small enclosure for them with model buildings and figures. It looks like a 1950s style sci fi monster movie. They seem to enjoy it.
I can imagine the poster for that movie: "Attack of the Giant Jumping Spiders from Outer Space!"
IIIIIhhhh! AAAaaahhh!
Omg! I love peaches! Thank you for rescuing her! Please keep us updated! Next to chia! Peaches is precious!
"Is it alive? I don't know, I don't smell anything"
Can I just say that shirt rocks? That's an awesome shirt. Pretty neat to watch all your critters eat too! And cool to learn about those mites, which appear to be the vultures of the microcosm.
Also, if you see a lot of spring tails on your tarantula, maybe checknit out. I saw this once and I was looking cause he was in semi- death curl. He did unfortunately pass away, and I thought it was just dehydration from after his molt. Well, when I preserved him in resin, I saw a crack/cut on his carapace, right by where the spring tails were communing. I think he had trouble with his molt and got injured, and the spring tails were atracted to the leaking haemolymph.
From what I've heard, if you cut one of the holes on the lid on the fruit flies and bung it with a cotton ball, when you want one you can just pull the cotton ball out and use the 2 or 3 that are on it :)
Awesome video as usual!
I can never tell when mine r going to moult as they all eat even if they going to moult the next day lol
Samee
If you do have a large mite population and you are concerned that they are affecting your invert, you can also introduce a predatory mite such as Phytoseiulus sp. These mites will hunt down and kill any other mites in the container and then live on as a clean-up crew. Although they do sometimes make a home on the invert too, as is the case with my Hissing Roaches. However, they don't cause the roaches any harm. They do take a couple of weeks to reproduce in big enough numbers to impact the other mites' population but they are very effective and remove the need to dry out a container which might put an invert at risk of dying from desiccation. Also, they can be a bit pricey for tight budgets. Hope that helps.
THAT SHIRT THOOOOOUHH, I love it.
Most mites outside of Ts natural habitat, are infact mostly herbivores and occasionally scavengers. They will attach themselves to larger animals to catch a ride to whereever has better living conditions. Mites will try to leave the habitat when there is TOO much moisture or fungus spores. Very interesting animals actually. Im certain some dude who work with mites have a post about them on arachnoboards if anyone wants better explanation!
I am in Brisbane Aus and our huntsmen run around the house and at by morning might be at the other side of the house, I am surprised to see them surviving in tiny containers
I had mites in my Ceratogyrus Darlingi enclosure for some reason the enclosure wouldn’t dry out, that coupled with the fact that I left a dead roach in there caused mites to multiply and feed on the roach.
So velvet spiders are easy to keep? Hmm, interesting. Good to know. Thanks Kat 😉😊☺️
Try dumping your fruit flies into your auxiliary feeding container outside that way if they run free, that mess is outside. Then try putting your separated out fruit flies in the fridge for 5min before feeding. Slows them down, you can easily dump them into your spiders enclosure and they will not be all over the place. Cheers :)
This was a great video and good to rewatch as I have watched it before but the explaination of the mites was very helpful so thanks for that and for all of your content 🤗
Mites are just the absolute worst they get everywhere I get them in my sling enclosures the vials if use slightly more moisture for the Asian species and then slightly miss any parts of boluses then bang an outbreak of mites it's a real pain but the good thing is that 90% of mites are harmless and are just scavengers
Have you ever had them escape an enclosure and get out into your house? Can they climb acrylic or glass? I'm in an apartment building and that's the one thing I worry about is winding up with a mite infestation. I already keep feeders in a container inside a container to make sure they go nowhere lol
Wow thanks for this information abaout mites :) Now i ´m calmed down....i recognized 2 of them in my little box from my little jumpingspider who was molting and i freaked out and clean all little boxes :D ....so in future i will not freak out again :D
Aww Peaches!! I love her. ❤️
You have added to my knowledge of mites (not difficult to do). I knew some mites were not harmful, but how to tell? So it comes down to whether they're on your T or not?! Great! If they are each holding a knife and fork, I'm getting rid of them.
ur videos are among my fav i love seeing there’s a new video 😁 your videos make me want to get more ts 😂
Hi, I am new to taking care of jumping spiders and I am trying to do as much research as possible about them. I just want to make sure I am doing everything that needs to be done. I was wondering if you could make a video about jumping spider care and maybe some tips and tricks, fun facts, and maybe telling us how to tell if they are male or female? I love your UA-cam so I thought you would be the best to help out!!!!!! ❤❤❤thank you sm
I think you should lower the trap door spiders substrate because it cant feel vibration if its too high? thats what ive read before. love your vids btw
Im glad peaches is doing well she looks like a much happier spider now. also fruit flys they are a giant pain in the butt what I do is make a hole like 3cm round in the lidve their container and plug it w/ a piece of sponge. then you get a upside down spiderlet pot and use it to push sponge to the side a bit so you make a gap the flys will crawl through and the only place they can go is into the pot. but you would probaly have to make the hole before all the flys have hatched else they would all escape its not my idea I bought fruit fly pots that were already like it and it works really well so even tho the pots I get now dont have sponge I put one in myself
Love your content Kat 🥺🥺🥺 keep up the good work
You have got a lot better with your videos🎥 you used to👀 talk for so long about things... Now you get to the point but informational. ☺I subscribe...
Omgosh that velvet spider 💞💞💞. She is so gorgeous 😍. Tyfs God bless you
yeah, like, my hissing cockroaches have their own type of mites that LIVE on them. Gromphadorholaelaps schaeferi. they just live on them and are the cleanup crew. every mite is different. blood sucking are the ones you don't want.
i love the updates and love see how all of them are doing and i learn a lot from your videos as well keep it up :)
Peaches is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen 🥺❤️
The last time I was this early I caught a worm lol. Loving the updates
Haven't watched video yet but I miss seeing the Halloween moon crabs I know they're reclusive but oh how I enjoyed seeing them 🥺
Looks like "Acarus siro", which are amazingly common. Most people probably have them in their homes and never realize it.
Thank you for the mite 411.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to take a barbecue fork to my back to relive a sudden case of itching.
Should one just ignore mites walking around or should you add in some spring tails to help?
Completely over thinking this I’m sure but as a noob my heart dropped when I saw tiny white dots walking around my slings enclosure 🤦🏻♂️
I had trouble getting my T to eat his crickets and his abdomen got small. I switched to juicy horned worms and in two weeks he’s gotten so chunky!
Hi Kat you are the best keep it up you always make me day better 💯👍💪 thank you for being so inspirational to
Hope you're well, Kat.
Sudden spider death can be caused from parasites inside of crickets. At least I heard this from exotic lair and he has stopped giving his spiders crickets.
It's cool feeding ur sling with Fruit Flies 😁👌
Love your info. Thankyou for being you. Xox
I love velvet she would be cool on a tshirt 🕷💗🌸
2:25 6:20 that was funny lol 😂 that one made my day better
Given what you've said about mites, what's your opinion on nematodes(the little white worms)? I've come across numerous posts about them and how bad they are, but seem to find them in the same locations and situations as mites for the same reasons.
I really enjoy this channel! The information is given in a way that is really digestible for a newbie T owner. I'm inspired by Salem to ask a question about G. Pulchra (I got 2 slings as my first 2 tarantulas). One of the two buried itself completely. Like I can't even see it. It went into its hide and completely closed off the opening and hasn't come out in like 6 weeks. The other one did that, too but it went in later and has come back out. I don't want to disturb the one that's still buried if it's alive and doing its thing but I don't want to leave it in there indefinitely if it's dead. How long should I wait to check it out? If it's dead in there, will there be a smell? It's a 1 inch sling.
Thanks for the mites tip.. After i just finish cleaning 425 tanks n tubs lol 😅😥
Kat i just got my tarantula back off my dad as my quarter master wouldn't let me have my tarantula in my army room. However i got her back now she look liked she been well feed and he seemed to do a fairly ok job looking after her but i noticed loads off mites in the tank. They look like grey small long things. They don't seem to be bothering the tarantula. The substrate is dry because that what she always seem to prefer i use coconut husk. Do you think it be ok to leave it for another 2 weeks or should i clean out the tank now
I will just take that velvet spider off your hands now
I hate fruit flies sooo much but if you put the ones your about to feed in the freezer for like 1-2 minutes they go into paralysis and go back to normal after a few minutes.
Hello Kat I'm new 2 ur channel and the hobby and I'm having a blast great stuff. Question I picked up my first Asian Forest Scorpion about a month ago but he's hasn't eaten. I offer food very few days, I've even left crickets in tank overnight but nothing. Any idea why he won't eat? Thanks and have a good one.
I love your channel!!! Have a great day!✌
What kinds of Old World and New Worlds are easy and really relaxedly calm to keep?
Ive got a chilobrachys huahini sling who has a knack for escaping his sling enclosures and im at my wits end with this very small old world. any tips or advice?? ive got him in a recycled petco pinhead cricket tub because its the only enclosure that seems to hold him for more than a minute.
got him as a freebie and I kinda understand why
I had mites on my taranutula mouth was verrrryy afraid that they were bad mites and could kill my T. So i went to Archnoboards ( Invert forum) i then showed them and they said they were grain mites. The 5years i kept ts i never had this happen to them. 😂😂😂
I have mites loaded on the carapace of my aboreal sling any ideas how I can get them off looks like they will suck it dead!
Great video
My T is called 'Wednesday' too!
Stupid question but how do you know the difference between a normal molt vs a mature molt?
I have been looking everywhere for jumping spiders and can’t find any :(
Love you!
Aw, my Female Jumping spider died earlier this week :(
Huntsman spiders arent rare i always find them in my bathroom kitchen and room
put the fruit flies in the freezer for a few seconds then they are easier to handle!
for a few seconds they look stunned!
Was that sound effect Alex kidd or Mario?? I have Alex kidd theme stuck in my head now!
Sounded like Mario to me..when u die lol..
I have a question! Do you have any amazon affiliate links or anything? I’d like to buy some supplies and support you as well. I’m already a (new) Pateron member but I appreciate your content so much I’d like to support any way I can
thank you Taylor! I don’t but I appreciate it.
Where did you get that shirt?
Where u get the huntsman
Your top is cool
I still have a million babies from my 2 jumping spiders... and they r big enough to go to deadly tarantula girl!
Would spring tales eat mites? 🤔
they would compete causing the population to deplete
Put your flies in the fridge first. They slow down.
Hey Tarantula Kat, i got 4 Tarantulas and im addicted but my parents don’t allow me more without even a reason. Do you got tipps?
I agree!
Dang those fangs
let’s go a new vid🥳
LOL 😁 I have a tattoo of a pikachu on my arm
If anyone was wondering the shirt she's wearing is from shop.morningwitch. com/
Just remove the spaces and there's so many cute designs
Also love your videos!!!!!
I'm early again yay!❤
How do you know when they've matured??
Male tarantulas develop unique pedapalps that look like boxing gloves when they mature
evened out that 400th like !
Hi
I'm really fascinated by the women, who keeps spiders in her house. On purpose.
Did mites can really kill tarantula?
Most mites are harmless but their a pain cuz they just get everywhere and can irritate your tarantula
Thank you😊
How do you know when a male has matured?🕷
Springtails eat mold and compete with mites for food. (Springtails win)
Should I try and get a tarantula? But I need to beg my mom 😂
6:30 every girl i know in nutshell :D :D :D
💞🕷💞🕷
hi 🖤
U only feed them the worms never seen u use anything else fill sorry for ur spider
He was an adult. If he was WC he could have been old
Not my fault this time.