EDIT: Unfortunately, I made an error in this video. What I thought was a Wolf Spider is actually a Fishing Spider, likely Dolomedes tenebrosus. I spent hours trying to get a proper ID as I scripted the video and even got other opinions. I believed it was Hogna aspersa, but I got it wrong. Thankfully, this is still an ideal habitat for this species, but I don’t like that I messed that up and am sorry. Regardless, I'm still happy to have this spider around and am excited to share more in the future. Earlier this week, I found a Fishing Spider that snuck into my home. There's no telling how long it's been living here, but I didn't really want it free roaming... neither did my wife! She found him to begin with. I managed to capture it and decided to design a custom habitat for him since he insisted on living in my home. Since Toby insisted on living inside, I figured I would allow him to continue doing so within a vivarium. I like how this turned out and have enjoyed him thus far. He also seems to like his new personal forest habitat. What do you think, and what would you have done if you found a spider like this in your home? Have a great weekend SerpaSquad! Also, I just wanted to give a heads-up that I will not be uploading next week because of various things I have going on. I’ll be back the following week with something incredible. See you then.

Bro built a 5-Star Home for the invader 😂

Remind me to get lost, cold and hungry in your home, especially as SerpaSquad, I would love my own bioactive terrarium 😂

Toby already looks brighter after a couple of good meals. Seems like this little guy is on his way to some fine, healthy living.

This is actually a fishing spider, not a wolf spider. Very similar looking but if you compare the eye positions for both you'll see at 10:24 that Toby's eyes are positioned like a happy face like a fishing spider, while wolf spiders eyes look like a frowny face, if that makes sense.

Bro, this is like kidnapping a person then giving them a mansion and all the care they need for the rest of their life.

Being a male spider, he likely won't live too long. If/when he passes, you should definitely get a female Hogsna David-Bowie huntsman spider or some kind of confirmed female tarantula that would enjoy the setup you built for even longer. Just a thought

Maybe a fire red millipede scape in the future... Could contrast amazingly with lush plants - a fine addition to the invertebrate area! Loving the recent videos! Keep up the amazing work!

OMG! The narration and filming at the beginning is so entertaining! “Cooking dinner”, was it chicken pot pie? Then, the discovery and capture of Toby… and finally such a happy ending! Thank you so much for your very interesting, inspirational, and enjoyable videos.

I saw some color morphs for wolf spiders that are completely amazing, great species and so inspirational! Love how you put in so much work and pay attention to every little detail to make the enclosures the best they can be! Thank you for keeping us entertained and inspired!!

A great way to tell wolf spiders apart is that they have these beautiful stripes running down their head and backs, often brown or black and heavily contrasted against the rest of them. Fishing spiders are typically more mottled in appearance with striped legs. And I doubt you'll ever see them outside of Australia, but a huntsman spider is all grey or brown with minimal markings. Oh, and it's flamethrower sized. Hope this helps!

I love your compassion for household "pests," they should not be punished for the crime of being small ❤

Out of all the things to do with a spider in the home, this is by far the coolest and most rewarding option. Any animal that spends the rest of its days in a serpadesign enclosure is a truly lucky creature, even if it gets misidentified by its new owner 😂. Although a male Dark Fishing Spider likely won’t have any interest in burrowing, it’ll definitely appreciate the semi-arboreal aspects of the enclosure.

you know when you REALLY like a creator, when youll watch their video about a spider.. and you are a serious arachnopobe!

From intruder to captive... Plot twist directly from Hollywood

This is lovely and wholesome. You usually shouldn't release critters that find their way into human areas for too long as a lot of native populations of various species have suffered disease outbreaks from unwitting good samaritans so this was a truly excellent option. I do love the care given to one of our most underrated neighbors. Those running agile spiders have a crazy high powered processors and are very smart and attentive creatures. Thank you so much for giving him the best retirement home he could ask for! Thank you for all your good work as a responsible and empathetic shepherd. You are an excellent steward and representative of wholesome animal care! I hope you can continue to shape the next generation of animal caretakers and continue to guide people to a higher path of responsible, ethical and empathetic animal keeping.

Yes! I've been waiting for an arachnid build so long. These guys are great!

I have arachnophobia but your vids bring me so much peace and joy that I will face my fears just for this vid.

Excellent attack footage! Love spiders! Be interested in seeing a terrarium that houses a golden-orb or a spider that makes a beautiful web.

Have you ever made a terrarium filled entirely with flora and fauna that are native to your area? Its really fun, especially if you research them before putting them in. i love knowing some of the names of the things around me. makes it feel like home.

I cant reccomend keeping a colony of Bess beetles around a nice stump of wood enough. They are so delightful to keep, very personable and sweet, easy to hold, and gorgeous to boot.

Considering that most of your terrariums, paludariums and what not contain springtails, I would say that you have done a lot with invertebrates 😋

This is awesome! I also kept a fishing spider for awhile that intruded my home, also thought it was a wolf at first. My gf said I couldn’t keep it so I brought it to the shop at my work. The guys loved feeding it. Had to let it go because they added a smaller one that was likely a male and we soon had hundreds of little fishing spiders escaping. So we let them all go near a pond.

Your tank designs are truly on another level. I'm glad I found your channel; I love watching your videos!

LOVED you did this! I had a Dolomedes wander into my MI-basement almost two years-ago. I saved him from my son & cat and set him up in an enclosure NOWHERE NEAR yours, but he had his final molt after a few months, hooked-out, & we kept him until May-last year when I could release him into the garden. AMAZING spider, & his legs EASILY spread over my palm! We don’t get too many native arachnids THAT large in MI. It was a joy to keep him, then set him free.

If you liked making a home for this little guy, you should look into building enclosures for some tarantulas! :D Many of them love a rain forest setting, and some of the easier ones would flourish in your style of desert enclosures. :)

Absolutely should get yourself a tarantula when Toby passes. I think youd thoroughly enjoy one of the more common terrestrial species. Personally out of the 5 I own I love my LP (Lasiodora Parahybana). His name is Frankie Fingers and hes almost always out in the open, he has a wonderful feeding response and is always fun to watch

You should consider tarantulas. They live quite long and some of them can create nice webs that would add much to the decor of the terrarium

Thanks for giving him a good home! It's a really pretty set up and he seems like he's enjoying it, plus his meal delivery! Love from Memphis~

More arachnids!!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥰 Oh, remember to include cross ventilation where appropriate! 🌬🕷😊 Top marks for this build!! DIY substrate looks five star (though I've never had a wolf spider under my care), and scape is gorgeous as always! If you get any Ts, be sure to plan the flora around if they're heavy webbers or not. Plants can get enveloped very quickly! 😂

You should put a 24/7 livestream up of the spider's habitat. That would be interesting.

This video is actually pretty cool because of the spontaneity ... there's a nice "Harvest Festival" vibe that's in the leaf litter, too.

Wow! Beautiful setup. Truly looks like a slice of the FB forest. Im sure I saw Toby smile while crawling around in there.

Thank you for show casing his beauty. A stunning species

Beautiful enclosure build! And the spider is beautiful too. Just love this!❤

It's fun to see you build these set ups. My desert terrarium that I built a few years ago just turned into a perfect home for the spider I just scooped from the house I'll be moving into. Yours is a bit more friendly where as mine is almost the same size but a healthy female black widow. It will take lots of attention to not make a mistake but so far it's been magical to watch such an elusive beauty

my mum is currently raising around 150 Hogna Carlolinensis babies from her wolfie girl Rosie who laid an eggsac a month or two ago. I will say, my mums setup definitely isnt as glamorous as this one, and definitely not as big, but it was fascinating to watch you put it together

One of my top three builds I've watched you do. Nice work.

WINDERFU attitude and fabulous job, as always!❤️

Thank you so much Tanner! Great video! I love that you set up a tank for a visitor. I am a huge fan of the study of native species and I can not think of a more beautiful way to study and observe.

I'm gonna miss Toby. He has a nice, calming presence in the office.

I love so much that you did this!!!! He is GORGEOUS and his home matches.

This video has so much “you’re my friend now. We’re gonna get soft taco later” vibes and I love it

Toby looks amazing & I'd say you did a great job on his little habitat given how quickly you had to put it together.

I knew Toby wasn't a wolf spider when I saw his eyes, but you caught that. His enclosure is fantastic! I love the artistry in all of your habitats.

A great job and a very happy wolf spider 👍

Your spider stories are a special treat!

I loved the reenactment!

I was getting worried after seeing a few of your videos that were on the serious side. But between the "dramatic reenactment" and the reference to The Office, this was great! And since the end of the year is coming, I'm really looking forward to a tour of the new animal room.

Watching spiders eat is wild! Love it, and glad you made something for this spider! Hopefully he lives longer than anticipated.

Yes!!!!! I am so happy to see more spider content it's been so long since the jumping spider vivarium

getting a photo from your wife saying “Help! he’s back!” is very menacing. building an amazing home for the intruder to keep as a pet is twice as menacing.

this turned out really nice. very pleasing to look at. love the plants

Haven’t checked up on ur subscriptions in a while, and man I’ll never get tired of ur videos. I’ve been watching you for a few years now and the ur filming and editing has really made a difference lately, and I love videos like this that focuses on a more everyday species. I also just feel like ur channel has felt more consistent and coherent as a whole lately. I’m not a spider guy either lol

Besides the fact that you are a genius in your field, you are one of the best video editor

Enclosure turned out great!!! Very nice home for the spider 🕷️

I love this so much.! The spiders new home looks awesome. I love seeing some footage of the spider exploring

I love wolf spiders ❤❤ so smart😮 thank u for making a beautiful enclosure for it

Tell me why I’m now picturing having a vivarium in my home for a spider, when I’m terrified of them. Great content as always Tanner!

My favorite time of the week is waking up to a new video.

Great looking set up 👍 Toby will be very happy 😎👍

Awesome build and great footage!

Keep up the good work Tanner!!!😊

Spiders rock. I was never interested in keeping spiders until I started watching Dave's Little Beasties. Incredible channel. Dave is a fount of knowledge, and he has some incredible inverts. Oh, and there's Westside Reptiles's shorts lol. So entertaining and downright hilarious sometimes. Toby is a real looker

What I love about this is it is the ideal enclosure for a fishing spider. Definitely top tier among the ones I’ve seen and the simple nature of it too. I like that the background and drainage layer were similar to what is going on in the dart frog hobby. Only concern is the isopods hurting the molting spider but since this is a true spider it will likely eat them before they can do damage.

I love Dolomedes!!! Thank you so much for giving this big guy a lovely home and an all you can eat buffet, hopefully he enjoys it a lot 😊

The fern looks absolutely amazing

If you ever feel like doing a tall vertical enclosure, an amblypygi could be very cool! They're arboreal arachnids and they need places where they can hang mostly upside-down (or at least at an angle) in order to molt, which might make for a fun challenge. I have a species called Phrynus whitei, they're really cool little fellas. Just try to find a captive-bred one, of course!

Actually one of the coolest video's I have seen in a long time!

Another Great video! Love to see you prospering Tanner!

Cute story and phenomenal footage. Definitely one of my all time favourite vids on the channel

Just got back from duxford finale air show (absolutely amazing) and to this seeps has uploaded absolute joy

Your videos are so well made and thoughtful I love them

I wish I could have had you around when we had wolf spiders in our home 😅 you make catching them look so easy!

That time lapse was awesome!

Those acorn cap water bowls are ADORABLE

Wow, that fishing spider is one lucky guy! What a lush home.

This is one of my faves yet !

Dedicated invertebrate area? I'm super excited to see more! Love your work!

I don’t usually like seeing spiders like that but sense you are making the video it kind of makes me feel better

Love the inclusion of the mishaps. Amazing vid as always❤

He's huge! Gorgeous spider.

Only you would come up with a place to keep a spider. And I’m glad you did.

I find this hysterical. Ohhhh a wolf spider!!! I have at least 3 spiders living in my house in the mountains. They run like clockwork. There is one behind my tv in the bedroom. At night when I turn the tv on he comes out from behind it and stationing himself next to the tv and waits for the feast. When I wake up I remove the bodies of unwanted insects. Pretty much I am living in a spider home.😊

The isopods racing circles around the tank during the Timelapse is pretty great😂

Boosting for the algorithm 🙌 Love your work, keep it up! 🌻🐝

What a lucky spider! 😊

They are fascinating little guys to watch! We have tons here where we live, they’re adorable!!! Looks like a cozy spot for him! (Even without the radiator! Haha!)

Omg he's so cute and happy

This video was so funny!! And I rlly love the spider and enclosure as well

I got to see a fishing spider when i was doing summer work in ontario, and it was neat because she was MASSIVE, had an egg sac, and was also hidden away in this hollow in a tree surrounded by shelf mushrooms, like the perfect image of a fairy house. That's how we actually found her at first - my coworker said "that looks like the perfect home for something" and, well, it was!

Toby or not Toby that is the question ! Lovely set up Connor 🕷

I know what you mean about becoming fascinated by wildlife, even close to home. I have a colony of Guinea Paper Wasps living on my balcony, and I just let them do their thing! It's so fun to watch them move.

Great video! Incredible habitat!

The dramatic reenactment had me dead 😂 nicely done too.

THANK YOU FOR RELOCATING THE BEAUTIFUL SPIDER :) THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL HOME YOU DID FOR HER OR HIM :) THANK YOU FOR SHARING :) THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)

I love the setup! Not interested in the spider so much, but it's awesome to see a setup specialized for this type of animal

We generally leave the spiders in our house alone to live and let live. Our house is older and lots of tiny insects come in. Spiders reduce the numbers. Great enclosure for a lovely arachnid. Lucky Toby!

I gotta say i love your "dramatic reenactments"! I myself just acquired a new eight legged friend this way- a lil jumping spider. Maybe eventually I could build her something cooler to live in, like this.

Removing the spider from the bathtub will forever be an iconic duty of the husband