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<blockquote data-quote="Lentulus" data-source="post: 222403" data-attributes="member: 34044"><p>When you fill the water dish, just overfill slightly. You’ve only had the critter in there for a day. Try to relax a little, let the spider settle. If the spider is dehydrated, their butts shrivel and it’s pretty obvious visually. Stressing about specific temps and humidity is overkill for this species. Is the heater necessary? Is your home freezing to the point you need to walk around all bundled up? If you feel fine walking around in casual clothing, the temps are fine for your T as well. For example, my home has been in the upper 60’s this winter and all my T‘s are doing well. It’s more often hot and dry where I live. I never stress humidity. Worse thing that happens, I just need to fill the water dishes more often.</p><p></p><p>There are species that are more sensitive to environmental conditions. The ones <img src="http://www.tarantulaforum.com/images/tarantulasmiley.jpg" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":T:" title="Tarantula Smiley :T:" data-shortname=":T:" />we keep are pretty easy going and don’t fall into that.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lentulus, post: 222403, member: 34044"] When you fill the water dish, just overfill slightly. You’ve only had the critter in there for a day. Try to relax a little, let the spider settle. If the spider is dehydrated, their butts shrivel and it’s pretty obvious visually. Stressing about specific temps and humidity is overkill for this species. Is the heater necessary? Is your home freezing to the point you need to walk around all bundled up? If you feel fine walking around in casual clothing, the temps are fine for your T as well. For example, my home has been in the upper 60’s this winter and all my T‘s are doing well. It’s more often hot and dry where I live. I never stress humidity. Worse thing that happens, I just need to fill the water dishes more often. There are species that are more sensitive to environmental conditions. The ones :T:we keep are pretty easy going and don’t fall into that.;) [/QUOTE]
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