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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 128038" data-attributes="member: 26980">Lots of sins can be forgiven if you start with a sling and grow with your spider. Seriously, a 5" L klugi is by far more of a handful then a small 1" H pulchripes or M balfouri sling. The number one overlooked thing is having a high quality purpose built professionally built enclosure. A good enclosure is clear or mostly clear, has see though lids or bonded screens and can be opened only slightly to feed and need not be opened at all just to add water.This means one that you didn't build it yourself out of dollar store or Walmart trinkets. Opaque enclosures and lids can mean a real nasty surprise. Yes I'm aware that they're common. So are escapes and bite reports.Since I use decent enclosures, I haven't really had any horrible things happen. Even my pokie, Patrick my P striata is a perfect little angel within his vertical tall 2 gallon Terra Blue professional enclosure. The measurements are 4x8x8 for that.Jamie's has wonderful affordable juvenile enclosures. ExoTerra makes precisely the perfect arboreal enclosure ever. Bonus pic P sp machala !![ATTACH=full]28947[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]28948[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]28949[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]28950[/ATTACH]</blockquote>