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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 225421" data-attributes="member: 29323">If the room in which you keep your T is warm enough for you, then it is also warm enough for your Tarantula. Extra heating is not needed except in cold rooms.Your tarantula is little more than a water filled ball of urticating (irritating) hair. If it falls, even from a few inches it can & occasionally will split open, in the same way a water filled balloon bursts.  This is one of the reasons most of us avoid handling our T's unless we really need to & why most us advise only doing so fractions of an inch above a table & why we advise that the distance between substrate & lid on the enclosure is little more than the leg span of a T, if it is a climber. I hate to use the phrase, "you need more substate," but for the safety of your T. You need a lot more substrate in that enclosure to prevent it from falling & harming it's self. You could also remove some of the bits you have on top of your substrate to give your T some soft substrate to move around on.</blockquote>