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<blockquote data-quote="MrsP" data-source="post: 194832" data-attributes="member: 37242"><p>Thanks all for the friendly welcome! </p><p></p><p>This is Steve's enclosure, 12"x12"x12" Exo Terra, with carpet taped to the back and sides to help keep him nice and warm, and for a bit of darkness too. I also cover the back of the lid with a small fleece to help keep out the light a bit more and it helps to maintain the temperature overnight, as he is in my woman cave down the bottom of the garden, which is purpose built fully insulated shed, but I don't have enough power to run an electric heater. (The candle in the reflection is unscented and I've not lit any since he arrived, just to be on the safe side, and the inhaler is for me, not Steve!</p><p></p><p>He's a juvenile as I didn't want to have to worry about a spiderling as I've only had previous experience with adult tarantulas, but I wanted to watch one grow. He has a small dish of water always available (shallow so he can't drown in it) and I also mist once a day.</p><p></p><p>As well as acclimatising I suspect he might have been molting as he appeared suddenly last night and looks a fair bit bigger than he did when I first put him in. He has been eating, so I'm no longer as worried as I have been! He was named after a good friend of mine who died unexpectedly on New Years Day, and his partner and I both agreed that he would have loved having a tarantula named after him, so Steve it was! He (or she of course) appeared last night, and yesterday was human Steve's birthday.</p><p></p><p>Again thanks for the responses which helped to ease my mind, and next time I want to ask something (hopefully not too often now), I'll make sure to do a forum search first, as I know how annoying it can be when you see questions that have already been answered a bazillion times.</p><p><img src="https://www.tarantulaforum.com/attachments/steve-jpg.56653/?hash=f89193a6eb7d578cca71a2543bc423ed" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrsP, post: 194832, member: 37242"] Thanks all for the friendly welcome! This is Steve's enclosure, 12"x12"x12" Exo Terra, with carpet taped to the back and sides to help keep him nice and warm, and for a bit of darkness too. I also cover the back of the lid with a small fleece to help keep out the light a bit more and it helps to maintain the temperature overnight, as he is in my woman cave down the bottom of the garden, which is purpose built fully insulated shed, but I don't have enough power to run an electric heater. (The candle in the reflection is unscented and I've not lit any since he arrived, just to be on the safe side, and the inhaler is for me, not Steve! He's a juvenile as I didn't want to have to worry about a spiderling as I've only had previous experience with adult tarantulas, but I wanted to watch one grow. He has a small dish of water always available (shallow so he can't drown in it) and I also mist once a day. As well as acclimatising I suspect he might have been molting as he appeared suddenly last night and looks a fair bit bigger than he did when I first put him in. He has been eating, so I'm no longer as worried as I have been! He was named after a good friend of mine who died unexpectedly on New Years Day, and his partner and I both agreed that he would have loved having a tarantula named after him, so Steve it was! He (or she of course) appeared last night, and yesterday was human Steve's birthday. Again thanks for the responses which helped to ease my mind, and next time I want to ask something (hopefully not too often now), I'll make sure to do a forum search first, as I know how annoying it can be when you see questions that have already been answered a bazillion times. [IMG]https://www.tarantulaforum.com/attachments/steve-jpg.56653/?hash=f89193a6eb7d578cca71a2543bc423ed[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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