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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 59229" data-attributes="member: 4199">You're mixing up your geography <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  Central Chile, the breadbasket of Chile, is the farming and aquaculture area, to moist and humid for the Rosea. In a bowl surrounded by peaks of the Andes in northern Chile is where the salt flats are.  The geysers, or at least the largest group of vents, are across the salt flats higher up in the Andes. For the G. Rosea to reach any of these they have to cross the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world.  Rosea come from the southern edge of the Atacama Desert in Chile, and the desert/scrub regions on the edges of the Atacama in Bolivia and Argentina.  Many many miles away from these geysers and salt plains.  Rosea were found not to be nomads as first thought, in the wild they burrow and stick to an area, only moving in the event of natural "disasters" like fires, etc.The point of all this is we don't want to see the spiders needlessly put in danger as others have posted.  Salt is a poison to spiders, and used as an alternative pesticide.  I'm dreading seeing a post saying your T's are suddenly not doing so well, i'm afraid your "expirement" of how salt benefits is actually an experiment on how long they can last exposed to salt.</blockquote>

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