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Here's how I house my mid-large adult arboreal tarantulas.
Here's what you need:
5.5 Gallon glass aquarium (10 gallon for really big spiders)
Appropriately sized screen lid
3 screen cover clips.
Clear silicone
Sheet of Plexi Glass/Acrylic
Acrylic Cutting tool
Utility Knife/Straight Edge Razor.
Substrate
Cork Bark, or branches.
1) Start by turning your aquarium vertical. Using your Utility knife/Straight edge razor, cut about 1" of the silicone(already in the tank) out of the two bottom corners.
2) Using your Acrylic cutting tool and sheet of acrylic, Cut a rectangle to fit inside the lip of the tank.
3) using your silicone, apply a three sided layer the side of your acrylic rectangle to the inside of the lip.
4) press the acrylic rectangle into place on the inside of the lip.
5) allow 4 hours to dry.
6) After drying, trim off any excess silicone using your Utility Knife/Straight Edge Razor
7) Add Substrate, Cork, Decorations, Tarantula etc.
8) apply screen lid and fasten with screen cover clips on three sides.
9) if you have humidity issue you can silicon a piece of Acrylic to the inside of the screen. Just drill holes for ventilation.
Here's what you need:
5.5 Gallon glass aquarium (10 gallon for really big spiders)
Appropriately sized screen lid
3 screen cover clips.
Clear silicone
Sheet of Plexi Glass/Acrylic
Acrylic Cutting tool
Utility Knife/Straight Edge Razor.
Substrate
Cork Bark, or branches.
1) Start by turning your aquarium vertical. Using your Utility knife/Straight edge razor, cut about 1" of the silicone(already in the tank) out of the two bottom corners.
2) Using your Acrylic cutting tool and sheet of acrylic, Cut a rectangle to fit inside the lip of the tank.
3) using your silicone, apply a three sided layer the side of your acrylic rectangle to the inside of the lip.
4) press the acrylic rectangle into place on the inside of the lip.
5) allow 4 hours to dry.
6) After drying, trim off any excess silicone using your Utility Knife/Straight Edge Razor
7) Add Substrate, Cork, Decorations, Tarantula etc.
8) apply screen lid and fasten with screen cover clips on three sides.
9) if you have humidity issue you can silicon a piece of Acrylic to the inside of the screen. Just drill holes for ventilation.