[Heather] - Hey, Bill!
- Hey!
[Heather] - What do you got there today?
- I got the jumping spiders. I'm gonna...
give them water and feed them fruit flies.
Wherever I put the fruit flies.
So what I'm gonna do is I take this pipette
and I'm just gonna put some water in the enclosures, like, this one's, like, right there
and I'm gonna feed them after I do the water, so I put a couple pipettes full.
The water just... it just really depends on which one.
Some are drier than others, so I just kinda just like...
do that.
And that one should be good, and then I'll set these aside.
And then after I get these...
...add the water then I'll put the fruit flies in the freezer kinda like I did with the crickets
with the blue feigning death beetles, but I won't... I don't want these to die. I just want them to...
chill and to go dormant for a brief period of time while I can actually put them in there.
Or otherwise they just kinda come crawling out.
[Heather] - How often do you give them the water?
- I do this twice a week, and sometimes, like I said, it can be a little bit drier than, you know, before
so I just kind of just base it on that. It's getting cold out so the having the heat on,
it just makes stuff a little drier so I have to maybe do a little bit more often with the water.
But I feed them twice a week and those are what I'm gonna be feeding them, so...
They're ready.
[Heather] - He's ready for food?
- Oh yeah, I'm sure they're hungry.
I feed them twice a week anywhere from five to eight of the hydei fruit flies.
And they actually eat quite a bit.
Well, I'm gonna go put these in the freezer... [Heather] - Oh, okay,
- so we can go do this.
And it's just kinda like what we did with the crickets and stuff but...
[Heather] - Ah, the freezer trick!
- Yep, just stick them in there like that and just close it for maybe about a minute.
I just kind of count... in my head.
And then...
And then I'll peek in on them and see how they are.
[Heather] - And the cold just stuns them so they don't all fly out when you open the thing, right?
- Right. And they're easier to put in there and then once they get warmed up,
they start crawling around because it's...
the jumping spiders need that movement to stimulate them as far as hunting,
but.. so you can see they're starting to slow down.
[Heather] - Yep, now they're all at the bottom. Yep.
- So, in about another 15 or 20 seconds, let's see.
We're gonna try this.
So they're all down at the bottom now, so they're much easier to...
[Heather] - Feed.
- So what I do is I have this, like, little cup and I'll just tap out about...
Just kinda guesstimate.
About that many.
And then I'll just take this, set it here, open the door, and just kinda...
thump them in there.
And then that'll keep them there.
And I try to get... I'll get a couple, and then I'll have to put them back in the freezer.
Okay, that's enough.
Yeah, see? They're starting to...
come back, so...
[Heather] - Uh-oh!
Okay, I think I got them all, so I just put the lid on them.
I've got more to do. These are off the floor like when we restock, so these are the ones for the floor so...
But you can see how they're moving around in there.
And this one is in his web.
[Heather] - Yeah, I see him.