View Full Version : Hobo Spiders = fish treat
Thomas_Hung
08-06-2005, 3:27 PM
So I just recently moved into this basement duplex... and we have an abundance of hobo spiders, so being the oppurtunist that I am :idea: , I kill the evil bastards and feed them to my Flowerhorn! She grubs them down as soon as they hit the water :headbang2
bosshawg
08-06-2005, 3:52 PM
pretty sweet
Thomas_Hung
08-06-2005, 4:04 PM
haha yea, these spiders are crazy.. one night we were chillin in the backyard and we saw one walking across the grass from like 15 feet away.. this thing must have been the size of a quarter... haha that one we fed to our bearded dragon :)
SinisterKisses
08-06-2005, 10:18 PM
Yeah, a few years back I had a female RD that come summertime, pretty much lived off of spiders. Lol she was fat though...
repair
08-06-2005, 11:02 PM
Got to be carefull .....wild food can have been in contact will poison.
Mattcomptonassvanhorn
08-06-2005, 11:48 PM
I feed all sorts of bugs to my koi, I gave one of em I giant wolf spider this mornin. They love that ****. :hitting:
thamunsta
08-07-2005, 12:46 AM
i fed my knight goby a beetle one it was wikid ......that beetle didnt stand a chance
iheartfishies
08-07-2005, 12:54 AM
Got to be carefull .....wild food can have been in contact will poison.
:iagree:
DRaGoNoVA
08-08-2005, 12:56 PM
best is to quarantine live feed before feeding em to ur fishes.
madwill42292
08-16-2005, 9:06 PM
i just saw in discover magazine the hobos have been killing people in washington..... thats funny tho, is that the flowerhorn's favorite treat?
DeLgAdO
08-16-2005, 9:08 PM
hahaha i think to the flowerhorn the poison is just alittle spice :D
guppy
08-16-2005, 10:56 PM
Careful, don't get bit. Their toxin is similar to brown recluse bites. It makes a slowly growing ulcer that takes forever to heal and throbs. I was bitten just above the beltline 1n 1993 and the scar is now almost gone. The hole was about 3/4" wide and 1/4" deep.
DeLgAdO
08-16-2005, 11:21 PM
ewwwwww did it hurt like a *****?
Not at first, just a little sting like a deer fly, but the knot kept getting bigger and more purple and painful for a few days then ruptured and got purelent, evntually I reamed it out with hydrogen peroxide and salt water, and got some antibiotics. Peroxided it daily for a couple weeks until it dried up and started to heal. Once it ruptured, yes it hurt.
:eek: that's the thing about feeding these poisonous insects. could endanger your own life. worst could hurt your love ones if they escape and hide in your own house.
phene4grene420
08-17-2005, 4:28 AM
i just saw in discover magazine the hobos have been killing people in washington..... thats funny tho, is that the flowerhorn's favorite treat?
they meant the hobos that hitch rides in boxcars on trains.
i've fed my fish plenty of housefound spiders. no problems....yet.
Goldfish
08-17-2005, 5:12 AM
Anything happen to your flowerhorn?
spryandspringy
08-17-2005, 12:00 PM
We get crickets all over the place (indoors and out) here in central Texas. And also huge spiders. The crickets get plopped in with the convicts, but I just can't take the risk with the spiders; I have no idea what kind they are and whether or not they might be poisonous.
hemiboo
08-19-2005, 1:37 PM
My oscars love the crickets that seem to be everywhere around here, and my jewels love the little tree frogs that always smear up my front window. I don't usually want to touch the spiders after I demolish them tho.
Thomas_Hung
08-23-2005, 10:57 PM
Anything happen to your flowerhorn?
Nah she is fine :D
As for being them biting me, I've been killing these things atleast once a day since I moved into my new place (basement apt) I know its only a matter of time before one gets me...evil little ****ers