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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phototoxin" data-source="post: 189974" data-attributes="member: 36320">The advice I was given is to have a surface area of 4x that of the spiders 'footprint'. 4x area is only 2x length and 2x width though. So if you have a 3 inch long , 4 inch wide spider you could look at a 6x8inch enclosure. I don't think the Tarantula would complain over an inch or two either way! As mentioned above too big is not ideal and unlike cats they don't like to explore! However even if it is a burrower a pre-made hide is always a good idea.If it's burrowing type it would need deeper , more stable substrate and obviously if it's aboreal it needs vertically and things to climb.FWIW I'm not super experienced and just regurgitating my knowledge and echoing the above advice though!</blockquote>