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Message: <blockquote data-quote="micheldied" data-source="post: 59422" data-attributes="member: 4088">No one is mocking you, any criticisms made are about the subject at hand, not your person.The Atacama desert is over 100, 000km squared in area. The Atacama salt flat is a measely 3000km squared in area. None of the links you've provided prove that G. rosea are found anywhere near the salt flats, or in them (and I'm pretty sure they aren't).Yes, no tarantula should be kept absolutely dry, at 0 percent humidity (if there is such a thing). The microclimates in their burrows in the wild do hold some humidity, that is true. But you should also realize that a "bone dry" enclosure is also a small enclosed space that keeps in some amount of humidity, which acts similarly to a burrow would (very possibly a reason why many Ts do not burrow, like they would in the wild).Bone dry, as used in the hobby, is relative. G. rosea can be kept much drier than many other species, that's all it means. It does not mean so dry that everything crumbles and any water content is non-existent.The salt being used does contain regular salt, plus other mineral salts. So yes, there will be a build up of NaCl and other things, whether you microwave or not. The only way to get rid of it is to completely change the substrate, which, again, stresses out the Ts.</blockquote>