How to Make a Cute Jumping Spider Enclosure with Only Items from Walmart
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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DIY 32 oz Cup Enclosure: • How to Make an Easy In...
Required Items:
twine
scissors
wire cutters
kitchen canister (5x5x9)
gravel
faux succulent pot
silk flowers
mesh
hot glue gun
hot glue sticks
soldering iron
silicone
plastic snap-on grommets (not the exact ones I used): www.amazon.com...
Conversely, you could also just use the soldering iron to make tiny ventilation holes all around the enclosure. That would work for a mid-size or bigger spider. Keep in mind that a very small juvenile and/or fruit flies could escape from them.
For 6 or 7 dollars in the food section of Walmart you can buy a big plastic container that is taller and wider than all the containers that you showed and the bonus is that it comes filled with cheese puffs. So once you eat those you basically have a big free enclosure. I have a bold jumper and he seems to love his giant world that i made for him out of it.
I’m so happy today because my first two spiders arrived via FedEx yesterday, two regal jumpers. I have one lovely black boy with teal chelicerae (my Luke) and one girl in light tan with pretty striped patterns (my daughter’s Pumpkin). The spiders are both adults, so pretty large. I had two enclosures waiting (12x8x8”) with front locking doors and large areas of aeration holes on two sides and on a removable roof panel. We added reptiearth coconut soil and then created cute succulent gardens (artificial) and have sprays of fake orchid blooms hanging down from the ceiling panels to give the climbing areas and hiding spots. I sprayed two walls with mini water sprayers each day and added temp/humidity monitors. Yesterday I put little condiment cups on the floor of the tanks with a mealworm in each to try to entice them. By an hour ago, the worms will still there so I worried. Just now I poked holes in the condiment cups’ walls and attached them to the top of the enclosures by paper clips to make the worms more visible. Miss Pumpkin immediately clambered over, climbed into the cup and grabbed a worm. She’s still feeding. My boy looked nervous at my activity and retreated into his orchid. After I waited awhile and he hadn’t moved, I couldn’t resist taking my forceps and holding another worm right up to him. He backed up a step and stopped, so I moved the worm right up to his face. He reached right out and took it from me! I’m so relieved and I adore him. Anyway, thanks for reading all of this! You seemed like someone who’d understand the joy and relief. All the best, Laura
Glad they ate for you and are settling in nicely! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video! I've seen these around selling for over $100 and I wanted one so bad. Now I can make it myself!
Thank you for going over the ventilation. I love that. I just never knew how . Gotta go. Off to Walmart to get a soldering iron! You are a great teacher thank you!
Excellent! I have a head injury and I have a hard time doing some thing if I can’t visualize it all in my head before I started so I may think about it, but I had no idea. You pushed me and I think I can do it now. Thank you!
Cutty, plier-y things! I laughed so hard, you describe things like I do!
Lol. This made me laugh! I often forget words in the moment so we just get what we get with these videos haha. Thanks for watching!
I always get great ideas from your videos .... Thank you so much for sharing.
I wonder where the opening is for feeding and so on.. 🤔
That little canister seems to work pretty good. I wished somehow that the lid was different so the bottom could have substrate.
if you havent look up Amac containers
@@destinydiaz7551 oh, thank you!!
Wait am I the only one thinking she looks like Christy from dance moms? (Also love and appreciate this video) ❤️
But that means you have to take the bottom off every time you feed, so there is more escape places.
Should everything be sanitized before or after putting together? If so how?
Is it okay to just use rocks as opposed to coco coir? I have apache jumpers so theure more of a desert climate but i worry🥹 just got them for xmass
Really cute! How would you get the prey in there?
You could drill a hole in the top for a drop-chute, and plug it up with a cork.
I can't find the right grommets anywhere 😭 Can anyone tell me where they got that?
Thank you so much! ❤
What size grommets did you get? I want to make sure I get a smaller size (:
I used your video for reference to making my first enclosure. I will say the side grommets killed me 😭 I had to do the twin on the inside and outside of them. let's just say I burned my fingers with hotglu quite a bit.
Thank u so much
You're welcome. Hope it's helpful!
Cool 😎 👍🏻✨️💖💞💕
Hi great video, just wondered with the tulle was it just normal dress type tulle nothing special? Also for the grommets, I assume you could use the type that offer eyelet in curtains
Yes and yes :)
Im getting so frustrated. I can get the grommets to click together fine before i put the mesh on, can not get them to with the mesh. What am i doing wrong?!
Hobby Lobby carries the same canisters and has 50% off periodically.
I don't shop at or support HL, but that could be helpful info for others who do. Thanks for sharing.
@@JumpingSpidersUSA I understand! Can you remind me where you found those grommets?
@@jamiewebb4752 amazon, but it's been a while since I've had them so when I tried looking, I couldn't find the exact ones again. I posted a different type w/ link to them down in the description if you wanted to try those.
@JumpingSpidersUSA why not?
so I wouldn't need grommets? I could just use twine?
Would this enclosure work for a praying mantis
That is a great question, but I sadly just don't know. I keep beetles... and spiders... and fish... and cats... and dogs... and I've had tarantulas, lizards, hamsters, and mice and other manner of little floofies and fluffies... but never mantises.
Do the jumping spiders need any substrate though?
It's not required, no. Oftentimes, prey just digs down in it anyway.
Does hot glue have to air out before the spider can live in thereM
It doesn't leave a smell. So not really.
What size grommets did you use?
Would a metal food catch for sinks work as a vent as well
Oh, interesting idea...
Do you seal your fake flowers to avoid molding?
They don't mold
Don’t use craft moss! I tried once and it’s dyed… it molds. Pet store brand is so much better & is made safe for pets
My spider escaped from that Zilla enclosure! I don't recommend them!
Is "Little stabby things" a technical term? LOL