ENVIRONMENT
Core care conditions
Use these ranges as a starting point and adjust for life stage, enclosure ventilation and observed behaviour.
HUSBANDRY OVERVIEW
At a glance
- Taxonomic group
- Arachnida
- Origin
- Europe / North America
- Lifestyle
- Arboreal / wall-dwelling hunter
- Adult size (body / total length)
- 0.5–0.9 cm
- Temperament
- Fast / active
- Experience level
- Intermediate
- Visibility
- Very visible but tiny and quick
- Burrowing
- Does not burrow; uses silk retreats in crevices
- Growth rate
- Fast
CARE NOTES
Keeping considerations
A very small jumping spider. Use a secure micro enclosure with fine ventilation, climbing surfaces and tiny prey such as fruit flies or small flies.
KEEP EXPLORING
More jumping spiders
Related completed care guides from the jumping spiders library.
