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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cjh" data-source="post: 48488" data-attributes="member: 3937"><p>Hi. I am new to this forum. I am ignorant. I do study. The best thing about tarantula keeping is learning about them. I really do enjoy my tarantula. She is a pink toe. Avi avi. I have done some reading and found that in a lot of the wild habitat she would be in if she wasn't a captive raised has environmental changes from brackish to even salty water, fresh water and sometimes a real rainy season. I do try to mimic this in humidity adjustments, just to see if there are any changes in her eating or activity. I had a nice terrarium for orchids and her going but her food sent the place into a mess. Meal worms are something she devours all of.  So now I stick with aquarium gravel, natural stones, an under the tank mini heater, that I do not stick to the habitat, water in the gravel, brackish water sometimes salt, sometimes fresh, high humidity and a warmer temp. My housing for her is a giant candy/cookie jar that is dishwasher safe. Occasionally we find some kind of cute decor for her to crawl on. The only thing about those things she can crawl on is that she prefers to web up the glass and just use her web. We do have high humidity so the cork or grapevine bark just kind of is a waste of money in our opinion with the set up she has, since she prefers glass. She molts and we did watch her do that and caught her on film.  She did take a tumble, we didn't expect, so after that we figure since she was fortunate to have missed the grapevine we really do not want things in her habitat other than gravel, her and her web. Those tumbles from molting, ( because she didn't have enough web at the time because we had just brought her home from the pet store about a month before she did it ) are just plain dangerous and the cookie/candy jar really is a perfect size. Her body is measured to be 2 inches and her leg length 1 and 1/2 inch. So she is still young.  Her habitat seems huge for the size she is. She eats well, has access to fresh water, has humidity, a day and night cycle with a florescent grow  light and we do set her under a florescent long wave black light t bulb, you know, the type for posters, for display and to give her a few days of that type of light. I read that was fine so please do not argue about the black light, set up or brackish water or sometimes salt for humidity I will not respond. If you tell me not to feed it meal worms I will not respond, she eats the whole worm head and all, leaving no mess, they are cleaner and easier.  If you tell me my uth (under tank heater) is going to crack my glass or cook my spider I will not respond, because no, frankly it isn't and won't. I do not have much to say to anyone, just sharing my opinion as a way to learn. Thanks for the welcome and I hope everyone also has a nice time.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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