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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ManlyMan7" data-source="post: 101342" data-attributes="member: 3569">Welcome to the addiction. I foresee a former arachnophobe/ future arachnoholic in the making.Roseas definitely like it dry. They seem to detest a moist environment, yet they do need a water dish from which they will drink.Part of the reason for the apparently contradictory care advice is they are typically very easy going, but on occasion, I have seen individuals who would bite your face off give  the chance. I would say from experience that I have never seen a species that can be more varied in temperament or quirky in behavior than G rosea.Sometimes that can be environmental. I was once showing off my collection at a camp and had them in their travel cases I had designed and made for them. As I was talking to a friend about them, I had opened my rose's moist cubicle and she came waltzing right out. I was trying to corale her back in with my hand while looking up to talk to my friend. Just then, I felt two fangs resting on my pinky."OK. Let's find you a dryer cubicle then."Did I mention they don't like moisture?Yet I have read elsewhere of one who lovingly caressed the ice cube their owner put in the water dish until it was all gone.Enjoy what has to be one of the most mysterious and potentially entertaining species in the hobby.Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk</blockquote>