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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shaun" data-source="post: 202354" data-attributes="member: 28563">Taken from a website:"The cage that you keep your tarantula in would be considered too small if it does not have enough room to adequately fit a decent hide for the size of the spider.Additionally, a container can be too small if the spider barely has room to dig a burrow (for terrestrials and fossorial species) or to web around the top (for arboreals).As long as your tarantula has enough room for a nice piece of cork bark, a small <a href="https://creepycrawly.com/will-tarantula-drink-out-of-dish/" target="_blank">water dish</a>, and enough substrate to retain soil moisture, then you’re probably doing everything correctly in terms of enclosure size."This leans towards the theory that they actually need very little space</blockquote>