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Spoodtopia Hey there! I breed and raise jumping spiders. I can’t wait to find your perfect match! Thanks so much for being here!
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I offer enclosures, sets, and playgrounds for your spood friends as well. 🚢ing is available from NW Missouri, as well as local pickups.

09/05/2025

It’s been several days since losing any more babies. Things may be starting to look up. Not holding my breath, but there’s a little hope left in this mess!

08/31/2025

Here’s my plan regarding the petsmart/petco situation

I have reached out now to people that work at the locations around me. I’m going to offer a class for employees to attend that educates on regal jumping spider care. I will also offer care sheets with my information on them for these stores to offer to people that take these spiders home, so should they have questions, they have someone to contact who is knowledgeable about the topic in their area.

I feel like this is the least I can do. And I’d love to see others doing the same. Currently awaiting a few responses, and will happily go in person to these stores, if need be! At the end of the day, I want happy and healthy spiders. I feel like we can help that happen with education.

I will also be looking into where these spiders are sourced.

I’m giving the benefit of the doubt to these places, because they genuinely may not know any better. I want to make sure these places know about the issues that can arise from mass wild catching and reselling, as well as how to properly care for these animals.

08/31/2025

Figured I could post some bloopers or funny mishaps regarding this mite issue.

I have two to start with:

1- my dog LOVES veggies. Especially cucumbers. He waits patiently while I’m chopping pieces of cucumber for me to give him the ends I cut off (and just in case I drop a piece). So there I was, changing out cucumber pieces in my sling cups for the billionth time. I finished one basket of cups, and left the room to get the other. Well, I apparently forgot to close the ziplock that I store my cucumber pieces in. Came back in and the ENTIRE BAG of cucumber was empty. Mikey (my doggo) was just licking his lips and wagging his tail. The lesson learned? CLOSE THE ZIPLOCK. ALWAYS.

2- I’m starting a new ff culture this morning off of one of my good cultures that wasn’t affected by the mites, as it’s exploding with fruit flies. I decided, for an extra preventative measure, to microwave the dry fly media to kill off any mites that may have gotten into my tub of Rapashy SuerFly (not sponsored). Now, I personally don’t care for the smell of that stuff. It’s not horrible, but I just don’t really like it. Let me tell yall something: IT SMELLS HORRIBLE WHEN YOU HEAT IT UP DRY! My entire kitchen currently reeks of HOT RAPASHY 🤮 i mean, at least I know there are no mites in it. But at what cost?! How am I going to explain this to my family when they wake up and ask what that godawful smell is without sounding like a lunatic?? It smells so bad 😭 And it was only 30sec on high.

Stay tuned for more bloopers, im sure. I’m learning that anything can happen when it comes to battling grain mites. Fml

A few of Gwen’s babies took their first mealies yesterday! These guys are going to be hard to switch over. Most of them ...
08/31/2025

A few of Gwen’s babies took their first mealies yesterday! These guys are going to be hard to switch over. Most of them wanted nothing to do with the worm, but are all about the fruit flies. Persistence is key sometimes when it comes to switching feeders! Especially with regal slings. They can be fussy when we change up their food. I spent my daughter’s entire nap time yesterday picking out micro mealworms (even after sifting them, they are SO HARD TO SEE 😂) and offering them to Gwen’s i3-i4 babies. I didn’t get to everyone, so I will try with the rest of them sometime today!

On a feeding related note: daughter helped me put BBFL in all of my adult spider feeding cups. She loved it. Then proceeded to play in the container of spikes/pupae, picking up each one and saying “awwww” before blowing it a kiss. The girl REALLY likes bugs 😂

08/31/2025

I’ve thought about the break I am taking, and here’s what it entails:

I will not be creating any new enclosures, sets, or posting ad0ptable spoods for the time being. I have clutches of littles I will be focused on raising, and clearly still have the mite issue on my hands. I can’t say how long it’s going to be until things are back to normal, but it’s getting close to a month of trying to rid my spiders of mites, and I am still finding them. Until that’s under control, I don’t have time to create.

In short, the business side of Spoodtopia is closed for the time being. It’s taken a huge toll on my mental health, and putting expectations on myself to keep Spoodtopia running as usual is making that worse.

I appreciate you guys for understanding. As I said before, I’ll be here in the meantime to answer questions, offer support, and educate. And hopefully some day in the not too distant future, Spoodtopia will be back up and running.

08/30/2025

I’m taking a break.

🚢ing out two spoods and an enclosure on Tuesday, and that will be it. Idk if or when I’ll be back in business after that.

Website will be down any day now, and I cannot aff0rd to get it back up right now. Our lights were literally disconnected the other day due to non päymënt. I counted on Spoodtopia sälës not just to keep it running, but for things for my family as well.

It’s going on a month of treating for these mites that Josh’s Frogs sent me, and it feels like it’s never going to end. I can’t keep going like this. I certainly can’t keep Spoodtopia open like this, either.

I’ll be here to post educational content and to support others, but Spoodtopia is out of commission,m for now, potentially indefinitely. Guess we will see.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for your support and for being here. I love you guys. Truly.

08/30/2025

4 more unalive babies. Two were Gwen’s. And two more still starving. They’re close to not being here anymore from starvation

I can’t do this anymore, guys.

I need a pro bono lawyer NOW

My almost two year old “helped” me unbox some bugs from The Fruit Fly Store. She absolutely LOVES spiders and bugs and r...
08/30/2025

My almost two year old “helped” me unbox some bugs from The Fruit Fly Store. She absolutely LOVES spiders and bugs and reptiles and frogs (raising her right.) she started taking the containers of feeders to my spider area and saying “bug eat! Bug eat!”

Needless to say, she’ll be helping with feeding time later for the first time! Mommy will be handling the littles, but I think she can totally help put some spikes in feeder dishes for me for my bigger spoods.

She also thinks the stickers that came from TFFS are hilarious. I have to agree lol

08/30/2025

Ewwwww pretty sure I have strep. Gonna take the weekend to try to recover. Might try to build an enclosure if I can. I despise sick season

08/29/2025

Vulnerability time

I just want to say thank you all again for the kindness you’ve all shown me. This mite mess has thrown me into a severe depression, and I’m fighting every day to keep from drowning in it. It came at the worst possible time, too. Spoodtopia was THRIVING. I had such a drive to create that I’d get up at 4:00am just to build enclosures and sets before work, because I loved doing it so much. It very much felt like all of the sudden, everything crashed down, and I’m still trying to pick up all the pieces.

My Dr prescribed me medication for the panic attacks this has all caused. Not only has it affected my spiders, whom I care VERY deeply for, but also my income. Bills haven’t stopped. I scrounged for school supplies. For baseball fees for my son. For meals. It’s affected my sleep. The website will be shut down until i can pay the bill. Its affected my productivity and energy at work. My drive to create - something I’ve always loved to do. My friendships, as I’ve been so busy trying to clean up this mess that I’ve lost touch with people. My family life. It’s affected everything.

It’s not a light or funny situation. At least, not right now.

I guess I just want to say that I hope that one day that drive and spark for this beautiful little corner of space that I’ve built comes back. And that your kindness goes a VERY long way, to me. I appreciate all of you so so much for being here through all of this. It’s been really hard the last few weeks, and sometimes I feel like things will never go back to “normal.”

To those who’ve helped me, I truly cannot thank you enough. There are quite literally no words that I can say that will express the amount of gratitude I have for you.

I need one more favor from you guys: if you know of a decent PRO BONO lawyer that is licensed to practice in MO that handles product liability cases, please let me know their contact info! (Asking for a friend, of course)

08/29/2025

Open 0rdërs will 🚢 Tuesday!

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