View Full Version : Hwo has found diving bell spiders in they're tanks?
hydraloveingman
11-09-2008, 7:47 PM
ever since i learned that diving bell spiders were aquatic hitch hikers I've wanted to know about how they behave in a home aquarium and how they interact with the critters you put in there,so lets have the story on you're encounter with these amazing little aquarium monsters.:thm:
I've never thought of diving bell spiders as hitch hikers, cool. Not that I'd want a predator in my shrimp tank >.>
As a species tank, though? Sure!
wildman117
11-09-2008, 8:23 PM
that would be cool but i think i might have a heart attack if i didn't know it was there
Notophthalmus
11-10-2008, 10:16 AM
We don't run into them too often in the hemisphere, but I have kept hitchhiking fishing spiders (Dolomedes triton and D. tenebrosus) from time to time. They're hardy enough, but it's difficult to find a balance between a tank the spiders cannot depopulate, but also has no predators who will kill them. They happily feed on scuds and midges.
They are bold critters. I can recall dipnetting in a swamp once, when I pulled up a netful of vegetation and Gambusia affinis. A D. triton who had ended up on the rim of the net leapt into the center of the net, snatched a Gambusia, ran up the side and leapt back to the water.