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
- Origin
- Europe / North America
- Lifestyle
- Arboreal / wall-dwelling hunter
- Adult size
- 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.