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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phil" data-source="post: 183488" data-attributes="member: 4151">Everything said about ventilation and keeping conditions right is spot on. Also concur with comment about deaths in "waves". I keep a spreadsheet for every spider ever owned and when you have large collections I have found death rate to be 7% of my collection. That is usually a combination of bad moults, Mature Males seeing out their days, old age or just "unknown" factors. I have always been relatively lucky with avics and never experienced the SADS. I have a dedicated spider room where pretty much every T is kept in same conditions. Temps about 23/24° daytime dropping to 19° at night (all thermostatically and fan controlled), all enclosures have cross ventilation and mainly dry substrate with an open water dish available at all times.Only exceptions to this are the Therophosa sp. and a couple of other species that require higher humidity. The humidity in the spider room is usually about 65% which is standard for the UK but if the room heater is on and things dry out a bit more, then I also have a himidifyer to pump up the humidity in the room if needed (very rare though)Not everyone can heat a room and have hundreds of spiders in one place but the cross ventilation, dry(ish) sub and water dish is a basic need for any spider. Hope that helps.</blockquote>