Poor, eaten H villosella

[SpiderDad61]

My little communal of 3 H villosella is now 2. One of them ate another one. I drop 3 baby crickets in their web entrance so they each have a meal. Sometimes they eat and sometimes they don't. I've never seen them aggressive toward each other, but I guess something changed. Hope it don't go from 3-2-1

 

[Kymura]

Oh hellz

 

[Enn49]

I'm so sorry. That's the reason I have never tried communal housing.

 

[Kymura]

I'm so sorry. That's the reason I have never tried communal housing.

That's why I have H incei in four separate tubs. My plan was for a communal. But...I was afraid..and they never did get to go in together.

 

[SpiderDad61]

That's why I have H incei in four separate tubs. My plan was for a communal. But...I was afraid..and they never did get to go in together.

It's strange. They've never been aggressive toward one another that I've seen. They even created web burrows on far corners of the enclosure. Their webs started interconnecting so I assume 1 got too close and the other freaked and mistook it for food

 

[kormath]

It's strange. They've never been aggressive toward one another that I've seen. They even created web burrows on far corners of the enclosure. Their webs started interconnecting so I assume 1 got too close and the other freaked and mistook it for food

That was one of my guesses. my other thought was a size difference?

 

[SpiderDad61]

That was one of my guesses. my other thought was a size difference?

All the same size other than one molting a few weeks before another

 

[Bugmom]

Aww, sorry one of your T's was a jerk.

I'm picking up 5 H. incei slings tomorrow and I want to do a communal so bad but I'm afraid I'll just end up with one fat, triumphant spider. I think the only species I'll feel comfortable doing a communal with one of these days is M. balfouri.

 

[SpiderDad61]

Aww, sorry one of your T's was a jerk.

I'm picking up 5 H. incei slings tomorrow and I want to do a communal so bad but I'm afraid I'll just end up with one fat, triumphant spider. I think the only species I'll feel comfortable doing a communal with one of these days is M. balfouri.

Yea, I might just seperate them, and once grown, if they're male n female, put em back together to mate