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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ManlyMan7" data-source="post: 99475" data-attributes="member: 3569">Thanks Tomoran. That is helpful.I know they are wetter, cooler Ts than most, though I have read they are not swamp-spiders (like Theraphosas).I like your setup to provide deeper substrate and keeping it moist. My girl I received as an 8" girl about a year before she died did not burrow much. I had a big homemade coconut hide for her (it took a very large coconut to fit her), and enough she could burrow down in, but not enough to really tunnel. She didn't even try though.I can't help wonder if she did have the substrate and did make a burrow, she would have survived he incident.I have also read that they are prone to over-eating. While most Ts will simply stop eating once they get full enough, not the P. antinous. Care should especially be made to not over-feed if they are gravid.  And my big girl certainly had an antinous appetite.I gotta say that yours looks stockier than my girl did, reminiscent of what I have seen of P. sp. chicken spider. But I am basing that on one video.  Still, a very nice looking girl you have there.Finally, here is a couple pictures[ATTACH=full]20541[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]20542[/ATTACH] of my big girl...</blockquote>