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Message: <blockquote data-quote="micheldied" data-source="post: 59205" data-attributes="member: 4088">All of this ^.Are you sure G. rosea are found right on salt flats, and anywhere close to geysers? Those are some very hostile environments, environments that Ts are not at all built to live in. And Avics are definitely not found anywhere close to salt flats.What you're doing IS experimenting on the spiders, whether or not they are your pets. Millions of Ts have lived in this hobby, and been bred. I don't know of anyone who has used salt. It's just unnecessary, and it's an unnecessary risk that will likely gather no real usable information. Having to constantly change out the substrate when salt accumulates just stresses out the spiders, and it can be avoided. In the wild, salty or not, this doesn't happen to them.This isn't an attack, I just find it extremely pointless to be doing what you're doing because there's definitely less harm in not using salt.</blockquote>