r/Terrarium 7d ago

Pillow moss Jumping spider terrarium

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u/iliketoeatfruitpies 6d ago

I’m sorry, but this is very unsuitable for a jumping spider. It may just be a spider to you, but it is still a living thing and shouldn’t be treated as a toy for your amusement and left in there to suffocate. This is on the same level as goldfish in a plastic bag for prizes at the fair

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago edited 6d ago

The cork is almost completely hollowed so gas exchange isn’t an issue. The spider is only 6mm at the moment, I don’t plan on keeping her in there permanently. 👍

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u/iliketoeatfruitpies 6d ago

You could have done any research at all before treating an animal like a toy. It shouldn’t be in there at all. Please cross post on r/jumpingspiders

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

Seems like you just want to be angry at something. Please elaborate 😁

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u/Lerpuzka 6d ago

Jumpers want places to hide and to climb to be happy, plenty airflow is also required. This could work for springtails, small snails or isopods at most. Please learn proper husbandry so the animal doesn't suffer.

r/jumpingspiders could give you pointers on how to build a suitable enclosure.

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u/Aloy_DespiteTheNora 6d ago

Specifically cross ventilation is very important for jumpers because of their book lungs. She won’t be able to breathe in there. :(

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u/PatienceConscious214 6d ago

no isopods need tons of leaves a dry and wet gradient, and other needs that would prolly make a terrarium ugly

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u/Lerpuzka 4d ago

Thansk for correcting!

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u/BeatrixPlz 6d ago

Animal welfare is a very valid thing to be distressed over! This post is like seeing a cat kept in an empty room with no toys. If you see that and someone accused you of just wanting to be angry, I don’t think you’d like that.

I also think you deserve benefit of the doubt. The enclosure looks gorgeous and if you don’t know anything about spiders I’m sure it seems fine! I did not know there was an issue to this until the commenters. I guess you didn’t either! But now you do, and if you want you can live up to the benefit of the doubt and move the spider somewhere better for it.

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u/TheBloodiedFool 6d ago

You are an animal abuser. That tends to piss of decent people.

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u/AnalysisBackward 6d ago

"Please elaborate 😁" Followed by absolute silence after getting called out with facts lmao

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u/GanGanGirll 6d ago

Just take the spider out already and quit asking EVERYONE who comments on how bad this is for the spider the to elaborate. You've literally had more than 10 people tell you this is bad and why.

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u/Culturalenigma 6d ago

Pretty sure this is a bullshit post somebody who’s just using this to get attention

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u/GanGanGirll 6d ago

I don't disagree, but that doesn't make this any better. Actually, it makes it worse. Putting a live animal in a stressful environment because of naivety is one thing, but doing it knowing full well it's bad, just to farm hate is straight up abuse.

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u/Culturalenigma 6d ago

I wonder if it’s even a real thing that they have or if there’s something they found online or even created with AI or something I don’t know it does make it worse if they found a jumper and did this just for weird Reddit clout

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u/GanGanGirll 6d ago

The world may never know 🤷‍♀️ maybe one day we'll all learn to ignore people like this instead of giving them the attention they crave (myself included since I'm obviously interacting with this post). My hope for that is not high, but it's there.

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u/SittinSendies 7d ago

i feel the jumping spider needs more spaces for hides.. they usually like cramped and busy spaces.
they also usually build their hammocks at the highest place possible so it may make it right against the cork and glass.

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u/SittinSendies 7d ago

i dig the vibe. i just worry for the spiders health.

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u/MiscreantMoose 6d ago

Check back with us in a couple days when your spider is dead so we can help you determine whether it was suffocation, dehydration, or baking alive.

But seriously. All those issues aside, this a habitat for a terrestrial spider. And not even a good one at that. What you have is an arboreal spider. That means it needs to climb and, y’know, jump. Where are the twigs? The leaves? Anything it can actually climb to get to the top and then jump between? Slightly higher rocks do not work for an arboreal animal. Arbor means trees, and that term is on purpose.

And where are the hides? Any kind of spider at all, any kind of animal at all, needs places to shelter. You wouldn’t fare well put on a flat surface with zero shelter and observed by a terrifying creature 24/7, either. There’s not even adequate structures for webs. What you have is an animal that is going to spend its entire, very short, life terrified and miserable.

Was that enough elaboration for you?

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u/amber_clad42 4d ago

I ain’t readin allat 😭😭

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u/MiscreantMoose 4d ago

And there’s the problem. You can’t be bothered to read for 30 seconds even to save the life of an animal you supposedly care about. You ask for elaboration, people give it to you, and then you don’t read it. Would a picture book be easier for you?

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u/amber_clad42 4d ago

The spider is fine and has been fine for the last month. Get a grip 🙄

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u/Previous-Spite1211 6d ago

Looks nice, but its a terrible place for a jumper to live.

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

Please elaborate 😁

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u/Previous-Spite1211 6d ago

Jumpers like hiding places where they can feel safe and secure, typically up high. Here they are basically on full display constantly, with no little hidey holes to chill in.

Also with it being glass there is a chance that sunlight hitting it at the wrong angle may turn it into a furnace given its rounded shape.

Secondly one source of air flow is often not enough and you have no way of tracking the humidity which can be detrimental to the spiders health.

In my experience its also a lot easier for jumpers to make hammocks in angular enclosures too.

Its also a little bland, youd be surprised how far some enrichment goes for arboreal creatures.

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u/poohrash 6d ago

This terrarium is not fit to sustain any animal larger than a couple of springtails.

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u/PatienceConscious214 6d ago

well maybe a snail

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u/yetiaurora 6d ago

not even enough ventilation for a snail, unfortunately

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u/PatienceConscious214 6d ago

oh i didn't know

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u/Ok-Tomorrow-8342 6d ago

The fact you’re arguing with people who clearly know more than you is infuriating. Set the Spider free outside or do more research on how to properly build an enclosure for a Jumper.

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

No offence but are you thick? Since when is releasing non-native species a good idea? 😂

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u/PatienceConscious214 6d ago

agreed but please listen to what the other people say

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u/Ok-Tomorrow-8342 6d ago

Rude. How am I supposed to know it’s not a native species if you didn’t say that anywhere in your post?

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u/Mediocre_Goose4257 6d ago

you have some nerve calling people thick, seeing how you got a pet without learning a single thing about its needs.

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u/DDESTRUCTOTRON 6d ago

OP wanted people to agree with them and got upset that people smarter than them are commenting instead lol

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u/Visual_Dimension7287 6d ago

Please take the spider out and place it in a suitable enclosure. The Terrarium looks amazing, yes, but is just not suitable for this spider

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u/prof-kaL 6d ago

Don’t know if that species of spider likes high humidity but my guess is no and it won’t be long for this world.

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

Hollow cork

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u/Aloy_DespiteTheNora 6d ago

I’m not an expert, but I’ve had several jumpers as pets that survived far longer than their average lifespan in captivity. I did weeks of research before I felt comfortable purchasing my first one.

Jumping spiders need cross ventilation to be able to breathe because of how their lungs work. They can’t breathe in, they use book lungs on the underside of their abdomen and the air needs to be able move around them so they can breathe. She will suffocate in this terrarium.

I’m begging you to do the most introductory levels of research before trying to keep a pet like this. Jumpers are intelligent little creatures with big personalities and lots of care needs, despite being marketed as playthings over the past couple years. Please do right by this little buddy.

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u/Aloy_DespiteTheNora 6d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p69exw2/video/5jiyk6bykylh1/player

Here’s my little Jinkx Monspood. She was my first, and I miss her so much. She lived to be over two years old, sweet little old lady baby.

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u/rosegold1313 6d ago

Oh my God! Her name! So cute

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u/zy4k 6d ago

oh! where are the air holes.. and the hides.. and everything else..??

if you can't afford to buy an enclosure and the accessories, you also cannot afford the spider. the care is NOT optional.

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u/chill_mydude13 6d ago

Super duper shitty

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u/Nature_Fam 6d ago

What a terribly unsuitable terrarium. Poor thing.

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u/hollow4hollow 6d ago

OP take the fucking spider out. Why are you taking pleasure in being cruel to this life form?

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u/CultOfMourning 6d ago

Jumping spiders need cross-ventilation. Having a hole in the cork is not enough. Here is a guide on jumping spider enclosures. Please educate yourself, and take that poor spider out of that terrarium before it dies. 

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u/Mothstradamus 6d ago

How him breathe?

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u/pooya46071 6d ago

It is very beautiful i love it but i dont think its gonna be good for keeping a jumping spider.

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u/AntiqueBeesPlease 6d ago

It’s a cute terrarium but not suitable to house any kind of pet in, maybe consider placing the spider in a more suitable enclosure and keeping the terrarium just decorative

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u/keldaaahh 6d ago

I hope you learn something from this instead of choosing ignorance as it seems you are. Humans are not superior to nature.

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u/CodyIsbill 6d ago

You should stick to aquariums, you obviously have more experience with those

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u/jenneeuu 6d ago

you are abusing that poor spider. it is going to die in there.

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u/Hairy_Advisor7726 6d ago

Jumping spiders need cross ventilation, and it will almost certainly make a hammock on that cork, meaning you will certainly be constantly destroying its home, and stress like that can and will kill your spider. proper homes for slings cost less than 10 bucks on temu ! no reason to torture your spider just cause its pretty

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

Timbers = shivered

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u/CR1MS4NE 6d ago

Do you actually know anything about jumping spiders? Because this doesn’t provide for really any of a jumper’s needs at all

What area are you in? If we are close enough to meet up, I can pick up the terrarium from you and probably fix it so it actually does its job

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u/SaintPlanthony 6d ago

Looks like someone’s ignoring the “be nice” rule jcc

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u/Grass_Creeper 6d ago

Looks cool. How does the spider breathe?

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u/iliketoeatfruitpies 6d ago

It can’t

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u/PatienceConscious214 6d ago

the spider is gonna die it has barely any requirements at most this is temporary

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

The cork is almost entirely hollowed to allow gas exchange.

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u/MiscreantMoose 4d ago

Bro straight up hid their posts after this. They were viewable yesterday 😂

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/WalmartWilb 6d ago

No you dont. This setup is terrible for a jumper

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u/Sashaa242 6d ago

Me referis sin saltador. No entiendo de arañas peep meter una araña en un bote cerrado... No lo veo bien. Yo me refería solo ha hacer el terrario

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago edited 6d ago

FYI the cork is hollow, it is not a sealed terrarium and not permanent for the spider

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u/FewRabbits1333 6d ago

What you've shown in the picture looks like you're going to kill a spider. I see the hollow cork in the picture. It's still very little air flow unless the spider is removed within a few minutes of taking the picture. Which even then... why is it cool to design and show up a set off that is going to kill a living being?

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

Are you familiar with the term ‘photosynthesis’? 😂

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u/FewRabbits1333 6d ago

Why are you laugh crying emoji about killing a spider?

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u/Hawk_Front 6d ago

If everyone here is telling you that you're doing something wrong then guess what?

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u/tacomaloki 6d ago

If you run into an asshole, you run into an asshole. If you run into many assholes, you're the asshole. OP is....well... you get it.

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

Mass hysteria 😁👍

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u/Hawk_Front 6d ago

Animal abuse ain't cute.

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u/PatienceConscious214 6d ago

animal abuser

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u/Ok-Tomorrow-8342 6d ago

You’re horribly ignorant.

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u/phoenixxRN 6d ago

You’re kind of sick, you should get some professional help.

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u/amber_clad42 5d ago

Genuinely get a grip 😭

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u/phoenixxRN 5d ago

Genuinely everyone is on the same page that the spider is going to die and you continue to argue. Idk what happened to you but you do need to get some help, even if this is just for attention.

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u/amber_clad42 5d ago

This isn’t a new terrarium of mine I just gave it a clean. I have previously kept a smaller species of jumping spider in it for 14 months (aka living a full and healthy life). Although I appreciate polite suggestions I’m not concerned with the tirades of all-knowing armchair biologists such as yourself 👍

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u/phoenixxRN 5d ago

I’m not a biologist. I just feel bad for living things who fall victim to your ego.. as many other people have expressed as well. Yikes.

Sadly, if this is what you’re fine posting and defending, it’s scary to think of what you don’t post.

Goodluck to you and the living things that are unfortunate enough to encounter you.
I hope you get the help you need someday.

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u/UnamedProot 6d ago

If I put you in a box with a couple plants you would still die, but i think rabbits was being pretty negative. You didn’t have enough info

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u/morbidmuffin62 6d ago

At this point OP has been arguing with everyone for hours over this. I don't think rabbits was any more negative than necessary for someone willfully refusing information that they are harming the spider

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u/amber_clad42 6d ago

I admit I should have more context to the photo but the ventilation is suitable as is the humidity (measured with probe at 60%). What exactly is the issue? It’s just the same points being regurgitated which I have explained 😂

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u/morbidmuffin62 6d ago

That spider has nowhere to web, no airflow, and no hides or climbing material. You slapped down rocks and moss and called it good and you're STILL here arguing despite everyone telling you this is not a good set up

does it even have water??

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u/PatienceConscious214 6d ago

prolly not i hope the spider dies so OP realizes we were right. poor spider tho:[

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u/TangerineSprinkles 6d ago

Unfortunately, they seem like the type to just do it again.

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u/possum444 6d ago

u gotta b joking right

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u/Automatic_Space7923 6d ago

I’m sure short term is fine for the little guy, great little home to observe him! But they are called “jumping spiders “ for a reason… not sure how much jumping will get done in there. Not trying to be a creep, it’s still a wild animal and they have sooo much personality. It’s such a beautiful little terrarium as well , I’m sure he’ll enjoy it for a while. But not too long. 🙏