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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 127194" data-attributes="member: 26980">Yikes!!You can use a heat mat, but no heat source should be below the tarantula. It should be to the side or higher, never under the substrate.If the heat source is below the tarantula, and they get hot, they always go down and dark...regardless of temperature as they descend.  This can be fatal!!In nature, they go up and light when cold and down and dark when hot. Again, what I'm about to post is strictly what I've encountered in my research. I omitted the back story on tests with feeders and 3 wild wolf spiders who were returned to nature well fed and unharmed.[MEDIA=youtube]B8LzShWGPkw[/MEDIA]Many can survive at room temperature without heat. Do pay attention to the drawbacks as well as the techniques and advantages.  -----------Do remember, you do NOT have to add heat BUT the advantages of doing so are substantial.-----------Individually heating cages or just a small number on a shelf is only suited to small collections, typically under 10 enclosures.  It takes 10 times longer to explain then to perform.Every one of my inverts is temp controlled to an average of 80 degrees. These include tarantulas and 2 scorpions.  All are doing just fine.</blockquote>