Feeding your Jumping Spider

Check out my YouTube video on feeding your jumping spiders!

  • Feeding is typically 2-3 days a week

  • Base your feeding on its abdomen size. You don’t want your spider to be overfed, because if it falls, it could rupture its abdomen.

  • Jumpers are hunters; they go after live prey. They can eat anything that is close to their size, even a bit bigger.

  • Bugs Jumping Spiders will eat:

    • Mealworms (mini or small)

      • do not leave unsupervised with your spider in the enclosure, these can bite/harm your spider

    • Dubia roaches

    • Pinhead Crickets

      • do not leave unsupervised with your spider in the enclosure, these can bite/harm your spider

    • Blue and green bottle flies

    • Flightless Fruit flies (for slings)

      • Up til i4 - melanogaster size

      • i4-i7 - hydei

  • Do not leave any bugs that can bite and harm your spider, such as mealworms or crickets. All others can be left in there until eaten.

Watering / Misting

  • Use a fine misting spray bottle to mist the side of your enclosure once a day. Make sure to not spray directly on your spider or on their hammock.

  • Jumping spiders do not need water dishes to drink out of. They have book lungs underneath them, so a dish of water or large water droplets may be something they could drown in.

  • As far as types of water, there has been no preferred type. You can use tap, filtered or distilled. I personally prefer filtered from our tap water