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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DustyD" data-source="post: 196569" data-attributes="member: 36911">Thanks for the support. I really do appreciate it! But with my compulsive worrying nature I likely will ignore it a while longer in favor of experimenting. Lol.With outside temperatures recently dipping to 40 F at night and 50 F during the day (after being in the high 80s one day recently) and my overprotective nature heating up,   I tried something.   I placed a small reptile heating pad on a much larger  8x10 pane of 3/32 glass and placed it in the larger enclosure housing my individual tarantula enclosures. I angled it such that my G. pulchripes and G. pulchra acrylic enclosures formed a triangle with the heater but were  not touching  the heating pad. They were close, perhaps 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch at the closest point. Both Ts hung on the walls nearby but did move from time to time. The temp on top of their enclosures a few inches away was  about 73F.I plan on getting a thermostate to better control the temperatures year round. Oh, G. pulchripes molted last week and maybe is approaching 2" if not larger. She is still shy and heads for her den when i try to get a measurement. Two days after I found her molt,  she ate 3 medium crickets or so i assume. I prekilled three medium crickets for pulchra and they were gone the next morning.</blockquote>