You may be pleased to hear that my initial test of my new spider cage architecture didn’t kill my test subject, and she actually looks a little more lively and relaxed this morning. She has started filling in a web and was hangin’ upside down and chillin’ like a boss — now that she has a bit of a cobweb, I’ll toss some flies in this morning and see how she reacts.
Then this weekend I’ll have to assemble another dozen or so frames. It takes about 5 minutes to cut sticks to size and tack ’em together with hot glue, so that won’t be too time-consuming.
Ted Reinhart says
Is it possible the chemicals added in the paperboard manufacturing process affect the spiders? It’s single use packaging, not archival quality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperboard
brucej says
Well, it looks like chinese takeout is on the menu at the Meyers household for the time being :-)