For pet - owners , amount home to discover your pet has been caught red - handed , sometimes red - faced , doing something they were n’t expecting you to witness is a usual natural event . However , one poor goldfish in South Africa could have done with their possessor arriving home just a few mo to begin with .

A tour of duty guide named Jérémy Schalkwijk was reportedly on a day of the month when he decided to take his fellow traveller home and show her his pet goldfish ( yes , this is a raw one for us too ) .   regrettably , Cleo the fish was not in the pool where Schalkwijk expected to find it but instead oscillate mid - melody , midway up a rampart in the   clasp of a wanderer – who clear had n’t expected anyone to number home , and was probably wishing they ’d get just a few minutes afterward .

Schalkwijk was stupefied to watch the nursery web wanderer low itself into the pond , seize the fish with its fang and front legs , and haul it out of the water and up the rampart , reportsLive Science .

And it was n’t a diminutive goldfish either . By the looks of things , Cleo was a lilliputian on the portly size . Schalkwijk estimated the fish was about twice the spider ’s system of weights .

greenhouse vane spiders occur just about everywhere except extremely dry or cold regions . They can take the air on the surface of still bodies of body of water and even plunk below to hunt or escape vulture . They can jump too , about 15 centimetre ( 6 inches ) .

Schalkwijk rushed back to show his engagement the awful shots and when they both approached the pond again , neither Pisces the Fishes nor wanderer were to be seen .

In the wanderer ’s defence force , it was just doing what spiders do . At least Schalkwijk understand that he was witnessing a survey not often keep by mankind and immediately started snatch up picture ( Cleo may have been oppugn his priorities about now ) . It is improbable he could have saved the Pisces , even if he ’d attempted it , as nursery web spiders have spitefulness strong enough to drink down small quarry .

In fact , before you save them off completely , nursery web spiders get their figure because the undivided - parent females convey their nut around with them in theca they hold with their fangs , until they ramp up nursery webs for them , sheltering them until they are previous enough to forget on their own   – which seems pretty awww , until you know why daddy spiders arenot in the picture .