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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SullivanC" data-source="post: 220408" data-attributes="member: 39066"><p>You can maybe get away with putting your tarantula in a much bigger space than it is required but if you choose to do that you have to make sure height isnt tall in case if its terrestrial, give plenty of hides and water dishes if its big enough to have water dish but there will be some things you have to keep in your mind if you want to give it bigger enclosure than it actually needs.. If its fossorial it might be digging the substrate somewhere you cant manage to know where the spider is which will make the spider's job much harder to find the food same goes for terrestrials or arboreals you certainly can provide larger enclosure but it will make it very hard for spider to know where the food might be so the idea why most of us like giving them smaller enclosure is they are still comfortable with the space we provide at the same time we get to feed them easier because the enclosure is within their range they are able to find the food easy</p></blockquote><p></p>