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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayne Rowley" data-source="post: 193294" data-attributes="member: 36953">Hi there,My wife, a lifelong arachnophobe has now said that I can have a T!  I've been interested and researching T husbandry for a year now, and over the last 6 months she has also shown a lot of interest.  So a couple of days ago we went to the pet shop and came home with a 5cm c. versicolor juvenile T.[ATTACH=full]55818[/ATTACH]He/she came in a plastic jar with coco fibre and good cross-ventilation but no cork bark hide.  I added a small strip of cork bark, and a water dish, but found working through the narrow opening of the jar difficult.  So yesterday I built it a new enclosure using an air-tight food container, drilling the sides to provide cross ventilation:[ATTACH=full]55819[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]55820[/ATTACH]Rehousing was easy - a gentle tap with a straw and she walked up out of the jar and into the new enclosure.[ATTACH=full]55821[/ATTACH]After spending 24 hours sat on the side he/she has now wandered off behind the cork bark and has started webbing up.Wayne</blockquote>