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<blockquote data-quote="tapkoote" data-source="post: 147077" data-attributes="member: 17661"><p>Speaking to B Smithi my two spiders.</p><p>new world terrestrials</p><p> I've had my first B Smithi for two years, he lives in the living room, in the Pacific Northwest USA. (Maybe a temperate climate, but just had 5 weeks of freezing weather. When I first got him (he was a she) & I had a struggle with sub state being too wet, then heat. Heat mat @ one one end was too warm and he stayed in his bunker all the time. I use a 25 watt bulb on one end of the tank, he comes out to it when necessa<span style="font-size: 14px">ry. As does the younger one.</span></p><p> These are spiders ...#1,( bugs) they drink dirty water and live in the condition they have. </p><p>They're not bothered by wood smoke from the wood stove/my smoking tobacco/my painting hobbies in the back room. My garage is filled with spiders who live through and reproduced all these winters with out heat and through all the hobbies I put them through.. I also feed my two T's worms out of the garden, but having raised Bees here for 30 years, I don't use chemicals out side either.My house is 65 to 70+ F. in winter,in the summer gets hotter, Gets down much lower than that at night. They both go into their bunkers at night to get warm, come out when I turn the 25 watt light in the morning, between the tanks, during the day. In the winter @ freezing, I leave the light on all night, they hover around the heated glass. But if they're hungry they "hunt" and move away. As I see it- these B Smithi's would live in the wild here but it is too ____wet, the temperature wouldn't do them in, but the dampness would. They do in Iive in California where it is dryer, but nights get cold there also.</p><p>Just my 2 cents. </p><p> If you can live in your house...so can these.---- don't know about old world spiders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tapkoote, post: 147077, member: 17661"] Speaking to B Smithi my two spiders. new world terrestrials I've had my first B Smithi for two years, he lives in the living room, in the Pacific Northwest USA. (Maybe a temperate climate, but just had 5 weeks of freezing weather. When I first got him (he was a she) & I had a struggle with sub state being too wet, then heat. Heat mat @ one one end was too warm and he stayed in his bunker all the time. I use a 25 watt bulb on one end of the tank, he comes out to it when necessa[SIZE=14px]ry. As does the younger one.[/SIZE] These are spiders ...#1,( bugs) they drink dirty water and live in the condition they have. They're not bothered by wood smoke from the wood stove/my smoking tobacco/my painting hobbies in the back room. My garage is filled with spiders who live through and reproduced all these winters with out heat and through all the hobbies I put them through.. I also feed my two T's worms out of the garden, but having raised Bees here for 30 years, I don't use chemicals out side either.My house is 65 to 70+ F. in winter,in the summer gets hotter, Gets down much lower than that at night. They both go into their bunkers at night to get warm, come out when I turn the 25 watt light in the morning, between the tanks, during the day. In the winter @ freezing, I leave the light on all night, they hover around the heated glass. But if they're hungry they "hunt" and move away. As I see it- these B Smithi's would live in the wild here but it is too ____wet, the temperature wouldn't do them in, but the dampness would. They do in Iive in California where it is dryer, but nights get cold there also. Just my 2 cents. If you can live in your house...so can these.---- don't know about old world spiders. [/QUOTE]
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