#spiderkeeping

Found something pretty concerning this morning- Eris, my brown widow lost a leg, you can see it still right there in her web (front center). I know spiders will sometimes amputate their own legs out of stress/self defense, but last night she was out doing her usual thing, nothing seemed wrong. I found this when I woke up today. She's a mature female so she will not be regrowing this limb. I only feed and mist her web about once a week or so.

☾⁺˖ – i go by sydney! i'm 23, queer, and canadian! my favourite dinosaur is yutyrannus, my favourite Colour is Purple, and in my extra downtime i love playing d&d, drawing stuff like character designs and self portraits, being a dino online, and observing nature because it is just so cool !!!

☾⁺˖ – i used to be a super huge arachnophobe, like my legs would shake at the sight of a vacant spiderweb, but one day i had to share my shower with a bitty little false widow male and found him so cute and fascinating that i realized i wanted to observe more of them. i let him go free, but a day later found a false widow female in my bed, and then a week later a little wolf spider on my curtains, and so on... so here i am !!

☾⁺˖ – at the time of this post, i have 4 true spiders!! Zarra and Crocotta are my steatoda (borealis). i found both of them around my bed. Crocotta seems a bit younger, and Zarra is my OG spood, and still fucking gravid and making eggsacs. Sybaris is my pardosa wolf spider, god knows anything more specific than that, they're active and spunky but very small. i found them with 7 legs but they grew it back in their first molt with me!! and last but certainly not least is Karkinos, the ground crab spider (xysticus something or other?) i found just a couple days ago! all pictured below respectively 🕺

☾⁺˖ – this IS a sideblog, my main (and where i post a wip once in a blue moon) is @purralyth !! i can also be seen at @purrusaurus