A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall The Critter Corner NEVER underestimate water spiders...

I have goldfish, peppered cories, spiders & tadpoles in my pond and the spiders usually just catch my tadpoles and nothing else....

Except this bugger ....











The spider caught one of my peppered cories ... I don't know why but I left the spider to enjoy it's giant feast

Wow, you got some great shots.
I only have some generic gold fish in my pond. And tree frogs all year long singing their songs. I took my daughter out and we caught a couple of tadpoles and put them in a jar on our table. We raised them to tiny little frogs. Then I took them out and let them go by the pond. One jumped right into the pond and a gold fish jumped right up and ate him! I was surprised. I didn't expect that.

How big are your goldfish if they can eat frogs?

These were only about 4 inches long at the time. And the frogs were tiny, about an inch square.

Funny that... My goldfish don't seem to eat the baby toads that hop out

Erm......Our spiders are nowhere near that BIG!!! Except maybe some Tarantulas in the Southwest U.S.

I've never seen our tarantulas harassing our fish. They mostly eat other spiders.

while this was loading, i didn't get the whole thing, and all i saw was tarantulas. and i thought "why would tarantulas be in a fish story?" i've seen other spiders that big thorny. but they don't eat my fish either. they eat lots of other things though, including other spiders.

omg hate hate hate spiders ugh thats thing is ugly ugh

Oh, that just sent shivers up my spine.