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First. If the water bowl is empty, then yes fill it up. Second if you did disturb her during the molting process, then do not beat yourself up. This will happen in the wild & having accidentally done it to two of my T's. She will be fine.
I use things like coke bottle, milk container, coffee jar & peanut butter lids & have several enclosures with several water dishes in them. If they want to bury or two lids, I am fine with that. I even have one who has moved a water dish & webbed it into it's burrow entrance.
And as for the...
We only feed our T's weekly & they can easily go 2 weeks between feeds with no harm at all. So when we go away it is our dogs & birds we need family to look after, not our T's.
Following this, I went looking & up popped the trustpilot page. And yes, I know we cannot ever trust, trustpilot. But there is a common theme running through all of those negative reviews.
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/creaturesfromthenorth.eu
That is because it simply removed the outer moisture & to remove moisture from the substrate in an oven use very low heat. Just warm the substrate up gently. This time of year, if I need to dry some substrate out, I place it in an open tub on a radiator for a day or two.
Pulchras are certainly not lovers of damp substrate or humidity, coming from semi arid areas. But this means they can deal with moist substrate, even if they are not big fans of it.
Personally, I would have lived with the fruit flies. And dry substrate is a good way of getting rid of them. But...
It happens so rarely. A well written article aimed at everyone, about Tarantulas.
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/tarantula/hissing-tarantulas-clash-for-survival-in-australias-harshest-corners/
I ride a 1959 ex police velocette LE motorcycle. These were known as Noddy bikes & being water cooled, were said to be so quiet that the Police could ride up to crime scenes unheard. It also has shaft drive & the gear leaver is on the right hand side.
I live on the Northern edge of Norwich...
Rather than on of the bottles, I use a large syringe, these allow me to top up water bowls in awkward, top opening arboreal enclosures without getting water everywhere. But also I do, sometimes, mist, but not near my T's. I feel for example if a T is molting, or has just molted. Adding water to...