So a few weeks ago my boyfriend and I were setting up a fire pit thing (used to be an indoor fireplace I think) that he'd picked up from some guy. I was working on our wireless issues inside when he was hollering for me to come look at a spider. Didn't think much of it until I saw this guy (could be female, going with male for ease)
My boyfriend put him in a jar, and I eventually took him home with me and named him Freddy. He now lives in a quart jar covered with cheese cloth and has a virosan refill cap from proexotics' little capsule things for a waterbowl xD I've been trying to ID him and all I can get is that he's NOT a hobo spider, and can't climb vertical surfaces (probably the only reason I haven't squished him, I'm usually not a spider person when they can dart all over and deliver nasty defensive bites). The awesome part about him is that he's big enough to eat any other spiders I find around the house along with pill bugs and crickets and other small things I gather when I feel like it. He's turned out to be an easy and very fascinating pet to have
Best pic of his abdomen I got through the glass
I'll post more pics later, he's got a really neat web going all around the whole bottom of the jar now, and doesn't mind me picking him up and looking at him every once in a while (goes awesome on my curio shelves actually)
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