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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Miss Moxie" data-source="post: 125863" data-attributes="member: 27149">No, no, no-- you didn't start it. It got started on AB when we told him to stop using heat lamps and he told us that space heaters are FAR TOO DANGEROUS to be allowed in -any- household, talked about how a single space heater would have the FBI on his doorstep looking for his marijuana plants, then made a 30 minute video on the evils of space heaters, promoting dangerous heat lamps over space heaters. The whole debacle starts <a href="http://arachnoboards.com/threads/best-conditions-to-keep-a-poecilotheria-regalis.288944/#post-2745288" target="_blank">here</a> if you're interested at all. He revived an old thread to advise the use of heat lamps-- making it the SECOND time he's revived an old thread to advise the use of heat lamps. You can also see the pictures of his shelf where he's got -FIVE- space heaters and at least one heat-mat, right next to a bunch of plastic and cardboard/paper clutter.He's delusional, and he cannot stay on topic or answer people's questions. As you see, he has nothing to say to the information I provided above, proving his claims wrong. But he responded to you, telling you once again to be careful of your deadly space heater and suggested heat lamps-- as he always does. I've kept over 100 Ts alive without heat lamps OR a space heater. Currently they're in my closet with a small personal heater that blows hot air. It's not pointed at them, it's just to raise the ambient temperatures in my closet to 70-80 depending on how cold it is outside. So saying that keeping six Ts alive (not counting scorpions, scorpions are not tarantulas and have different needs) with his methods doesn't -mean- anything. It's a moot point. Not to mention he's only had them for a few months.And you're precisely right. Space heaters are -great- for raising ambient temperatures, without the dangers of desiccation. Yes-- they will dry out the air, but not nearly as rapidly as heat lamps. Space heaters were designed to heat a room. Guns were designed to kill. Space heaters are not dangerous unless used improperly, guns are always dangerous when used properly because their proper use is for one thing and one thing alone-- killing.</blockquote>

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