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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arachnoclown" data-source="post: 217896" data-attributes="member: 27444">I believe your misreading your tarantulas actions. True they’re desert spiders but they're quit primitive in their instincts. Tarantulas instincts are to burrow down to avoid heat. If your spider is burrowing down to the heat pad this is not good at all. They dont have the brain skills to say "I'm hot I need to go up top because it's cooler." Sooner or later it will die of exposure or dehydration.  Tarantulas don't like heat,that's why they burrow during the day and hunt at night. The occasional sunbath is ok because it knows it can burrow to escape the elements.</blockquote>