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This has been such a nightmare. How do you keep an enclosure from stinking like putrid yuckiness? I've spent at least $80 on materials for this enclosure. Coconut fiber stuff, sphagnum moss, clay balls covered in mesh etc. We have a 40 gallon tank and we're trying to do the best we can with what...
Thank you so much for the input. I know you've helped me before and said the same thing about the humidity. I'm so glad you mentioned that you have top ventilation! That's encouraging. We had her in a plastic container that was much smaller for a while and drilled side holes for ventilation and...
We have a juvenile T. Stirmi, maybe Blondi but she's not dead yet so I'm thinking she's the sturdier cousin. Anyway. We just moved her into the 40 gallon tank that was foolishly purchased to be her forever home. It's too big. Hard to maintain humidity. Top ventilation. We're trying to make it...
My son has a juvenile Goliath bird eater. She's in a plastic container right now with side holes drilled for ventilation and a small amount of substrate for burrowing. The plan is the move her (eventually) into a 40 gallon glass typical aquarium style enclosure. If I'd had any knowledge about...
Lol, I have no idea. Thank you so much for the input!! Will definitely move her enclosure to a more stable location. Thank you!! Yes, definitely wearing long sleeves/ goggles!!
I've already been over the fact that I shouldn't have let my son start with this type of tarantula but it is what it is. We moved her out of a 40 gallon tank with sprayers, heat lamp etc. into a 15 qt. plastic container with coco fiber, vermiculite, and sphagnum moss as substrate. Wetted till...
Yes, I've been watching his videos!! We will take those precautions about the hairs! She's about the size of my hand, I have small hands for a woman though. My son thinks she's about 1 year old. I have no idea if he knows what he's talking about. He's been reading about this species for at...
Thank you so much for taking the time to post, all the input helps! We're probably going to transfer her to a smaller plastic container but I'm kind of freaked about the whole thing. Personally, this is a huge challenge to me, working with spiders, and I have 7 kids so I've got 3 little girls...
Thank you so much for the input! We've been totally freaking out and we can't buy a new enclosure... it's too expensive to start from scratch so we're just trying to make do with what we have. It's a 40 gallon tank, not 45 like I originally thought. We're going to deepen the substrate, add moss...