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<blockquote data-quote="Arachnoclown" data-source="post: 152257" data-attributes="member: 27444"><p>Welcome to the group. Sorry to hear about your loss. If you kept it at 80% humidity with a heat mat I'd say that's probably why it died. That humidity level is way too high for any spider trapped in a enclosure. It gets way to stuffy for them and with added heat she had no where to go. No fresh air. Tarantulas dont care for heat...they burrow during the day and come out at night to hunt when it's cool. Yes occasionally you'll see them like a little heat but it's not necessarily good for them, they can dehydrate fast. Humidity on care sheets are from the region in which their ancestors came from. It's not a constant humidity level that should be maintained in a enclosure without the other variables like a breeze or fresh air.</p><p> Inside a burrow a tarantula cant escape the heat of a heat mat...instinct tells them to dig down to get cool but they run into a heat mat. They dont retreat either...they die. </p><p>I'd get ride of the heat mat for the curly hair and let the substrate stay dry. Over flow a water dish once a week and it will be fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arachnoclown, post: 152257, member: 27444"] Welcome to the group. Sorry to hear about your loss. If you kept it at 80% humidity with a heat mat I'd say that's probably why it died. That humidity level is way too high for any spider trapped in a enclosure. It gets way to stuffy for them and with added heat she had no where to go. No fresh air. Tarantulas dont care for heat...they burrow during the day and come out at night to hunt when it's cool. Yes occasionally you'll see them like a little heat but it's not necessarily good for them, they can dehydrate fast. Humidity on care sheets are from the region in which their ancestors came from. It's not a constant humidity level that should be maintained in a enclosure without the other variables like a breeze or fresh air. Inside a burrow a tarantula cant escape the heat of a heat mat...instinct tells them to dig down to get cool but they run into a heat mat. They dont retreat either...they die. I'd get ride of the heat mat for the curly hair and let the substrate stay dry. Over flow a water dish once a week and it will be fine. [/QUOTE]
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