Humid enclosure

[Deserthawk]

hey
I just made a new enclosure for my brachypelma. I used coco husks as the substrate. The substrate is pretty damp and the humidity shown in the hygrometer is 84%. Anyway to decrease the humidity without having to remove my T from the enclosure??
Thanks

 

[Enn49]

A Brachypelma hates damp substrate. If you don't want to remove your tarantula you could remove the substrate from one half of the container and replace it with dry and the chances are the tarantula will move to the dry side so you can change the sub at the other side

 

[Deserthawk]

A Brachypelma hates damp substrate. If you don't want to remove your tarantula you could remove the substrate from one half of the container and replace it with dry and the chances are the tarantula will move to the dry side so you can change the sub at the other side

Thanks alot

Could you also help me finding the sex of the tarantula. Heres a photo of its old molted skin.

 

[Enn49]

Thanks alot

Could you also help me finding the sex of the tarantula. Heres a photo of its old molted skin.

I'm not much good at sexing, you need @Phil, @Arachnoclown, @Casey K. or @KezyGLA for that

 

[Deserthawk]

I'm not much good at sexing, you need @Phil, @Arachnoclown, @Casey K. or @KezyGLA for that

@Phil @Arachnoclown could you help me out with the sex of the tarantula?

 

[Arachnoclown]

Female

 

[Deserthawk]

Female

Thanks

 

[Phil]

Yep, a lady you have

 

[Tnoob]

This might sound like an odd idea, but it's really dry in my area. I can run a fan for a day or two and it does wonders for drying things. It's harder to fight high humidity when the temps high too. If you want to dry out run a fan in your reptarium for 16 hours at about 76 degrees F.

 

[Phil]

This might sound like an odd idea, but it's really dry in my area. I can run a fan for a day or two and it does wonders for drying things. It's harder to fight high humidity when the temps high too. If you want to dry out run a fan in your reptarium for 16 hours at about 76 degrees F.

doesn't sound odd at all. great suggestion.

 

[Tnoob]

doesn't sound odd at all. great suggestion.

Thanks, man. I appreciate that coming from people like you, enn49 and arachnoclown. I've learned a lot about what I'm doing from you guys. It's nice to be part of this community.

 

[Chronic plamtreez]

the give away is the flap between the air slits in the abdomen.... males have hooks & clubby pedipalps

 

[Arachnoclown]

the give away is the flap between the air slits in the abdomen.... males have hooks & clubby pedipalps

The giveaway was actually the spermatheca present above the epigastric furrow between the book lungs. Also males only present bolus pedipalps and hooks when they reach maturity...and not all males hook out.

 

[Tnoob]

The giveaway was actually the spermatheca present above the epigastric furrow between the book lungs. Also males only present bolus pedipalps and hooks when they reach maturity...and not all males hook out.

Do you mean in general, or is it that some don't hook out by species?

 

[Arachnoclown]

Do you mean in general, or is it that some don't hook out by species?

Some species dont obtain hooks upon maturing.