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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 39760" data-attributes="member: 3524">The biggest killer of Avics in captivity, of all sizes, is moist, stuffy cages.  Overmisting can be a huge problem.  It's much easier to add moisture than to remove it from a cage.  I mist my Avic slings once a week or so, very lightly and only on their silk, for drinking, not humidity.  I don't hose down the cage.  What happens all too often is people keep misting and misting, the substrate gets wet, the spider stops eating, and then dies.  So many are lost this way, and yet care sheets say to keep misting them.  You are aware that care sheets are notorious for containing bad info and advice.  Videos aren't much better.  Any fool can stand in front of a camera.I used to lose some Avics too until I gave them dry substrate and more ventilation.  Humidity is provided by a water bowl.  They live up in trees where there's regular air movement and things dry out quickly after rains (as they do here in Florida too after our afternoon thunderstorms in the summer.  Sunny, dark and rainy, and sunny again before nightfall).  Avics aren't on the ground next to puddles.This works.  I have 90 Avics now (all sizes), 10 species.  Two are currently sitting on sacs.Be sure that in your quest for a nice looking cage that the spider's needs come first.</blockquote>