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<blockquote data-quote="Steve123" data-source="post: 66592" data-attributes="member: 3244"><p>I'm glad this post came up. I've been wondering whether people reuse substrate for years.</p><p></p><p>My bad, I should have written reuse an old enclosure with old substrate. I'd go broke if I didn't reuse old enclosures. I wash out the tiniest enclosures, even souffle cups, and I reuse old acrylic enclosures that are starting to crack from stress points. They're a little leaky some of them, but never get watered like a flower pot so it's np. I'm inclined to agree with Bugmom about Ts not caring what's been there before. Don't Ts take the hides created by other animals in the wild? I assume most of them do anyway, with indifference. If you've got pricey, sentimentally valuable, or rare species and/or are at the point of breeding them, a variable one <em>may </em>not want to introduce is an enclosure with webbing and organic debris from the previous spider. I have no proof it's bad, as I've never done it, but it's a question I can put off answering for the time being.</p><p></p><p>[USER=4199]@kormath[/USER]. I take it you might subscribe to "if it's not broke don't fix it" philosophy. I'm so the opposite. I almost never do the same thing the same way twice. I can't help myself. I'm sure I'm "fixing" unbroken things all the time.</p><p></p><p>Savage likes it moist. That's helpful, makes some sense if I read that correctly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve123, post: 66592, member: 3244"] I'm glad this post came up. I've been wondering whether people reuse substrate for years. My bad, I should have written reuse an old enclosure with old substrate. I'd go broke if I didn't reuse old enclosures. I wash out the tiniest enclosures, even souffle cups, and I reuse old acrylic enclosures that are starting to crack from stress points. They're a little leaky some of them, but never get watered like a flower pot so it's np. I'm inclined to agree with Bugmom about Ts not caring what's been there before. Don't Ts take the hides created by other animals in the wild? I assume most of them do anyway, with indifference. If you've got pricey, sentimentally valuable, or rare species and/or are at the point of breeding them, a variable one [I]may [/I]not want to introduce is an enclosure with webbing and organic debris from the previous spider. I have no proof it's bad, as I've never done it, but it's a question I can put off answering for the time being. [USER=4199]@kormath[/USER]. I take it you might subscribe to "if it's not broke don't fix it" philosophy. I'm so the opposite. I almost never do the same thing the same way twice. I can't help myself. I'm sure I'm "fixing" unbroken things all the time. Savage likes it moist. That's helpful, makes some sense if I read that correctly. [/QUOTE]
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