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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 131040" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>[USER=27778]@Steve S.[/USER] you have room to duplicate what [USER=27444]@Arachnoclown[/USER] did in the video quite a few times over if you extend what you have one the left wall (from our view) all the way across the back and even around the corner onto the right wall, I'm not any sort of tarantula expert but I think you could offer lots of suitable habitat in that tank.</p><p>Arachnoclown, I used polished stones like you have in my scorpion enclosures and I noticed at least once a day individual scorpions would be on or next to the stone. In close up pictures you could see that although the surface of the substrate was dry there were always droplets of water around the base of the stone. I now use them instead of any kind of surface water or water dish in my scorpion enclosures. My Urodacus elongatus female is kept on a surface of dry sand, the tank has a false bottom so her scrape will have some humidity but the surface is bone dry. I set up an area of polished stones like you had before covering it with moss, intending to mist the stones as they are one of the few australian scorps that drink free water. I haven't added water at all, not even to the false bottom, for more than 6 months but the stones are always wet just by collecting condensation from the air. Every day I see her standing on them or sipping from them. At first I thought you had noticed the same thing but you covered them with moss. I bet the moss on the stones would survive drying for a lot longer than the moss on the substrate. It would be interesting to see if a tarantula would appreciate an area of polished stones as much as some of my scorpions do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Jay, post: 131040, member: 27677"] [USER=27778]@Steve S.[/USER] you have room to duplicate what [USER=27444]@Arachnoclown[/USER] did in the video quite a few times over if you extend what you have one the left wall (from our view) all the way across the back and even around the corner onto the right wall, I'm not any sort of tarantula expert but I think you could offer lots of suitable habitat in that tank. Arachnoclown, I used polished stones like you have in my scorpion enclosures and I noticed at least once a day individual scorpions would be on or next to the stone. In close up pictures you could see that although the surface of the substrate was dry there were always droplets of water around the base of the stone. I now use them instead of any kind of surface water or water dish in my scorpion enclosures. My Urodacus elongatus female is kept on a surface of dry sand, the tank has a false bottom so her scrape will have some humidity but the surface is bone dry. I set up an area of polished stones like you had before covering it with moss, intending to mist the stones as they are one of the few australian scorps that drink free water. I haven't added water at all, not even to the false bottom, for more than 6 months but the stones are always wet just by collecting condensation from the air. Every day I see her standing on them or sipping from them. At first I thought you had noticed the same thing but you covered them with moss. I bet the moss on the stones would survive drying for a lot longer than the moss on the substrate. It would be interesting to see if a tarantula would appreciate an area of polished stones as much as some of my scorpions do. [/QUOTE]
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