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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Egon" data-source="post: 36524" data-attributes="member: 3479">Hi All,I've been thinking about tarantulas lately and thought I'd sign up here and look around. I spend a lot of time outdoors and have fallen in love with spiders. I know that tarantulas are different from spiders. I just recently realized that maybe I could bring some of that intrigue indoors with tarantulas.I've done a lot of reading but am not sure that I'm ready to commit, so I'm here to learn more.My top species for a possible tarantula are:1/ E. campestratus2/ A. calchodes3/ B. albopilsum4/ G. pulchra (I really like everything I read about this one, but its sheer size and the thought of what it could do of it chooses to bite gives me pause.)I do have two quick questions:1/ Is it possible to have a too-big enclosure that would cause a tarantula to hide/sulk? Like a 20-long aquarium for the above species? Or even a 30 gallon?2/ What exactly is tarantula feces like? I keep reading that their maintenance is easy, but no one says if you have to spot clean daily or how exactly you deal with waste.Thanks,E.</blockquote>