Arachnoclown's tarantula room

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Here's some random photos of rehousing some Poecilotheria males without a bathroom.

I use a catch cup and a bamboo skewer split so it's really thin.

Place the cup over the top of the old enclosure. (If your enclosure is too big for the cup place a piece of cardboard over the top of the enclosure and cut a hole out of the center for the catch cup, here's some examples).

Slide thin bamboo stick in between cup, enclosure or cardboard if your using it.

Gently persuade your spider up into the cup.

At this point you have two options. Gracefully place catch cup over new enclosure or slide cardboard underneath to move it to the new enclosure.

From here i give the spider a little puff of air from the lid of the catch cup and they usually run down. If not you can persuade it with the skewer.

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Rehoused all 3 pokies in under 5 minutes while taking photos. The best part is no bathroom.

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Pokie chilling out on the table.

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Poecilotheria fasciata mature female

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Phormingochilus ackaya looking for prey.

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Poecilotheria formosa

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Poecilotheria vittata juvenile

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Psalmopoeus reduncus juvenile

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Juvenile female Poecilotheria ornata

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

It's a mess but she loves it...Avicularia avicularia M1 female

Arachnoclown · Dec 4, 2021

Grammostola pulchra female contemplating what dirt to move to where.

octanejunkie · Dec 5, 2021

Arachnoclown said:
Here's some random photos of rehousing some Poecilotheria males without a bathroom. View attachment 61591I use a catch cup and a bamboo skewer split so it's really thin. View attachment 61592Place the cup over the top of the old enclosure. (If your enclosure is too big for the cup place a piece of cardboard over the top of the enclosure and cut a hole out of the center for the catch cup, here's some examples).View attachment 61600
Slide thin bamboo stick in between cup, enclosure or cardboard if your using it.View attachment 61593
Gently persuade your spider up into the cup.View attachment 61594 View attachment 61595At this point you have two options. Gracefully place catch cup over new enclosure or slide cardboard underneath to move it to the new enclosure. View attachment 61596From here i give the spider a little puff of air from the lid of the catch cup and they usually run down. If not you can persuade it with the skewer. View attachment 61598 View attachment 61599 View attachment 61597

Exactly the way I do it, I use a long zip tie, but thanks so much for documenting this in awesome, easy to follow detail!

Arachnoclown · Dec 5, 2021

Another good reason to change out those screen tops on your terrestrial spiders enclosures. Upon inspecting my spider room today I noticed my Lasiodora parahybana was missing. I've got a new project for today now.

octanejunkie · Dec 5, 2021

Arachnoclown said:
Another good reason to change out those screen tops on your terrestrial spiders enclosures. Upon inspecting my spider room today I noticed my Lasiodora parahybana was missing. I've got a new project for today now.View attachment 61649 View attachment 61650 View attachment 61651

I'll just leave this here lol

Exo Terra screen lid mod

Trying this out for my larger arboreals starting with a nano tall It's 4.5mm open weave stainless wire cloth from Amazon. I cut it to size with tin snips and shoved it into the channel on the kid similarly to how the original lid is made. I got glued it in just to be safe. We shall see how it...

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Arachnoclown · Dec 5, 2021

Yeah I've posted this in this thread before and on YouTube I've got a video. I knew she was trying to get out but was putting it off.