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Any risk using copper wire in enclosure ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 139980" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>I understand your concerns, copper is toxic to invertebrates at a fairly low dose but I think you'd have to be using it in the water dish or perhaps the substrate for it to have any effect on the tarantula, out in the open like that it wouldn't get into the spiders system anyway. Copper fly screen and the like is used as an insect deterrent in gardening sometimes, the idea is that insects will avoid contact with it and leave the roots of your veggies etc alone, how well it works I don't know. </p><p>I think that having wire like that might pose a risk of the spider getting tangled in it regardless of the type of wire used but then perhaps the spider will avoid the copper? I don't really know but I would try not to leave loops and gaps where a spider might get caught. With those thermometer /hydrometers the display unit is supposed to be outside of the enclosure anyway, only the probe is placed in with the animal, that's why the probe is attached by a long wire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Jay, post: 139980, member: 27677"] I understand your concerns, copper is toxic to invertebrates at a fairly low dose but I think you'd have to be using it in the water dish or perhaps the substrate for it to have any effect on the tarantula, out in the open like that it wouldn't get into the spiders system anyway. Copper fly screen and the like is used as an insect deterrent in gardening sometimes, the idea is that insects will avoid contact with it and leave the roots of your veggies etc alone, how well it works I don't know. I think that having wire like that might pose a risk of the spider getting tangled in it regardless of the type of wire used but then perhaps the spider will avoid the copper? I don't really know but I would try not to leave loops and gaps where a spider might get caught. With those thermometer /hydrometers the display unit is supposed to be outside of the enclosure anyway, only the probe is placed in with the animal, that's why the probe is attached by a long wire. [/QUOTE]
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