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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DewDrop" data-source="post: 60627" data-attributes="member: 4217">There is ventilation. She stays close to the top anyway. The enclosure is tall enough where the humidity seems to be thickest towards the bottom. Where she stays she has a fresh stream of air and I guess it is drying because she webs the top of her tall water jar. I do enjoy orchids, in case anyone didn't already know, the germination process requires a lot of sterility.  I have a particular dislike of mold and won't tolerate it in an enclosure or anywhere else. It makes great art in a photo by those who are able to have the clean room, zoot suit and scientific lab to mess around with it, molds in general. However as a living thing if I catch it, it has to go.  The last round I came across seems to resemble the penicillin varieties, however it has a small crystalline structure look to it, or had, rather.  It was small, I caught it at a pinpoint size. I think it may of been introduced by a cricket. It had to of been as the substrate was barely damp nearly dry and a cricket had been introduced a few days prior, or it could of been on the spider and taken the time from receiving the spider to yesterday to develop. This is exactly why exoterra or zoo med or products like that are something I am going to stick with and I am starting to question the benefits of buying tarantulas from online vendors. It was pretty dry so it was odd how it was able to just pop up like that. I don't see how ya'll can handle more than two tarantulas. Maybe it isn't just my husbandry it could of been introduced by these vendors online. I did get a spider from Jamie's and crickets from Josh's frogs. I doubt they were the reasons, it has been pretty warm this winter.  It was odd because after I removed it, no more has popped up. I could of accidentally introduced it after being outside. Tarantula husbandry is just enough busy work and check up on to satisfy me and since henpecking is apparently the new thing that women are not supposed to do to their husbands to lengthen their lives, the husbandry gives me something to crab about.</blockquote>

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