06/09/2024
Basics of Baby Regal Jumping spider Care:
Moms will have multiple sacs even up to 6. So be prepared for the mom to continue to lay till the end of her life.
Mom will lay an egg sack and stay tucked in her nest, providing a temperature controlled environment till the babies hatch. The eggs will turn yellow sometimes orange in color.
babies will turn black will emerge. A they will stay close to the sac at first as they eat the infertile eggs that mom lays as a food source. You do not need to take out the egg sack until the babies have ventured to the very edges of the nest. That is when you know the babies are about to emerge.
Mom seals the nest edges so the babies can’t get out but when they get old enough to start eating they will chew their way out this is why when they get to the edge you know any day now babies will be coming out.
If you don’t remove them at that time, they will emerge into the enclosure and then it’s very very hard to give Mom water and also they will escape through the air holes of your enclosure so it’s important that you take them out at the very moment you see them hanging out at the edges of that nest.
Take mom out temporarily then take a pair of long tweezers and water, wet the tip of your tweezers and rub the edges of the nest to loosen the edges aka “anchors” and you should be able to pull the egg sack out in one shot. His mom has created a nest. That is very hard to get to. I take scissors  and gently tap the edges of the nest to make the babies move out of the way and then I cut the nest away from the area. Once you have fully loosened the nest, you should be able to pull it out safely without harming the babies, if this is not at all possible, put the entire enclosure into a butterfly mesh habitat and keep the top open of your enclosure. That should be a last resort though because it is an absolute pain.
Relocate the nest to a 32oz deli container with a vented lid and poke air holes in it with a pin. You can get the vented lid deli cups on Amazon.
 the babies will take a minute to emerge, so in the meantime, get yourself some melanogastor fruit fly cultures.  also, I would highly suggest ordering the Josh's Frogs Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture Kit from Amazon to continue to make cultures to save money. Also you will need a funnel and a plastic condiment bottle like for ketchup, you can get the condiment bottles at the dollar store.
Get your self a micro spray bottle as well and fill it with bottled spring water or distilled NEVER TAP.
Once the babies start to emerge, you will want to put your funnel into your plastic condiment bottle. Put your fruit flies in the fridge for 20 minutes then tap the fruit flies out into the funnel and you’ll want to spray the fruit flies into your 32 ounce container “sometimes you have to cut the top of the condiment bottle”. You’re gonna do this every couple of days no more than every 3 days.
Spray the deli cup every day but hold the spray bottle at least a foot or more above the deli this will keep the droplets micro and avoid drowning the babies. If the droplets are too big, because your spider breathe from its abdomen aka book lungs, they can drowned very easily.
 once your spiders start to get white markings on them, they should be around their 4th molt. That is when you’re going to want to separate them out do not separate them out too early they do better communal. The only time you want to separate them right away is if you noticed that you have a clutch that happens to be extremely cannibalistic otherwise leave them together they are going to eat each other here and there. It is part of nature and you want the strong to survive.
When you separate them out, get 5oz deli cups poke pinholes in all of them hot glue, some cork bark and a fake flower head in there and then mark on your deli cup when they hatched and who the Mom is because when you adopt these out later you’re a doctors are going to want to know when they hatched.
Once you separate them out into their own deli cups, you are going to want that move them up to Hyedi fruit flies and then move them up to house or blue bottle flies or if you have them you can do baby meal worms “I don’t feed meal worms”
I will be making a full video on how to take care of babies and posting it here when I’m able to edit it.
Tip! I recommend buying the DALTACK 5-Tier Letter Tray Paper Organizer this will hold about 50 5oz deli cups and the mesh wiring allows you to place them near a window and get natural light or place a light on top