Are these enclosures okay?

[spider]

Hello

I'm new to this! I don't own any spiders yet. The 3 that I want are all coming from private owners and come with their tanks but I found 3 Exo Terra enclosures for sale and I'm womdering if they would be okay. I like them because they are big and easy to see the spiders in!

Okay. So the new enclosures measure 18 wide by 18 long and 12 high. Inches. The spiders are: a Brazilian Salmon Birdeater that's around 7 inches, a Mexican Flame Knee that is 6 inches and a Brazilian Black that's around 3 inches.

Also, could someone please tell me what substrate I should get? Thanks guys!

 

[Entity]

They sound okay just as long as they have plenty or ventiliation. Also I use coco fiber substrate for my spiders

 

[spider]

They look like this:

 

[Pearl Dusenbery]

I would love to have some of those for my babies but they r expensive. Their cost would keep me from buying more T's. Lol

 

[IamKrush]

I'd swap out the screen top with a piece of Plexiglass with holes drilled init.

 

[IamKrush]

Just to give you an idea
http://www.tarantulaforum.com/threads/exo-terra-screen-replacement.12034/

 

[Evanthomas]

I'd swap out the screen top with a piece of Plexiglass with holes drilled init.

I've never used the exo terra enclosures but I'm just curious why you would swap the screen lid out. Those species in particular don't need higher humidity so I would assume that the screen top would be acceptable. Since I've come back to the hobby I've seen a lot of changes and new discoveries so for all I know we used to keep those t's wrong.

 

[Nicolas C]

I've changed the exo-terra lid because I was afraid that my T - who sometimes climbs even being a terrestrial - might have the claws being trapped in the mesh lid and hang there by one leg. It happens, and for me changing the top lid is my way to avoid that. But you are right: as far as I'm concerned, it's not because of humidity issues.


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[Evanthomas]

I've changed the exo-terra lid because I was afraid that my T - who sometimes climbs even being a terrestrial - might have the claws being trapped in the mesh lid and hang there by one leg. It happens, and for me changing the top lid is my way to avoid that. But you are right: as far as I'm concerned, it's not because of humidity issues.


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gotcha, I usually set up my terrestrials with enough sub that they could reach the ground if they were stuck in the screen and I would hopefully be able to unhook them in time. It happened once with my rosie, but she was fine and I just lowered the lid into her tank and she got unhooked.

 

[Nicolas C]

Great! That's another good way to solve the problem!


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