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C versicolor is an excellent first arboreal. There is a lot of disinformation out there about these. They are a DRY spider & it's wise to get a humidity gauge to ensure it does NOT go over 70% or so. The cage needs to be well ventilated, but there is nothing special about cross ventilation. The quantity of airflow is more important then the direction. If you detect excess humidity, either remove the tarantula or set up a fan to gently blow it out of the cage ASAP.
Excess humidity causes fungal infections in the book lungs which is fatal, eg SADS sudden Avic death syndrome.
The only hydration should be an elevated water dish that they can get to when climbing. You don't need to start with a very small cage with a sling. Just drop feeders into the web once they create one. Some specimens will never go to the ground to drink & could dehydrate. Using a water dropper to drip exactly one drop once in a while is also ok if your home humidity becomes very low and uncomfortable for humans.
If your sling doesn't start webbing within a day or so, feed some flights fruit flies to stimulate that. These are not ideal nutrition and small red runners or pinhead crickets should be introduced into the web once built.
An exoterra nano tall 8x8x12 is ideal for adults. The growth rate is medium, far slower then pokies for example but much faster then Brachys such as T sabolsum etc.
C versicolor was my very first one ever. He currently hanging out in the glass.
Excess humidity causes fungal infections in the book lungs which is fatal, eg SADS sudden Avic death syndrome.
The only hydration should be an elevated water dish that they can get to when climbing. You don't need to start with a very small cage with a sling. Just drop feeders into the web once they create one. Some specimens will never go to the ground to drink & could dehydrate. Using a water dropper to drip exactly one drop once in a while is also ok if your home humidity becomes very low and uncomfortable for humans.
If your sling doesn't start webbing within a day or so, feed some flights fruit flies to stimulate that. These are not ideal nutrition and small red runners or pinhead crickets should be introduced into the web once built.
An exoterra nano tall 8x8x12 is ideal for adults. The growth rate is medium, far slower then pokies for example but much faster then Brachys such as T sabolsum etc.
C versicolor was my very first one ever. He currently hanging out in the glass.
