Riddle me this

[Matthaus]

This isn't a riddle, I'm just running out of title ideas...

So i'm on youtube, just watching videos of tarantulas and when i come across videos of the LPs, their substrate is extremely dry, have i missed something??

 

[Enn49]

I've always kept my 2 dry, at least I tried when they were small (they were 1" dls) but the male was always tipping his water bowl over although the other never did. I solved the problem as they grew (both over 6" now) by giving them un-tippable animal food bowls.

 

[Matthaus]

Morticia seems to always tip hers out, would you know what that is a sign of??

 

[Enn49]

@Matthaus I never worked that out. I guess some do, others don't. He was the most untidy T, digging as well as spilling water whereas the other was always neat and tidy, he seems to have grown out of it now.

 

[MiaWolf42]

What kind of water bowls do you use?

 

[MassExodus]

You can keep Lps dry, with a water dish but they do appreciate some moisture every once in awhile.

 

[swimbait]

LPs really shouldn't be kept on moist substrate, you can get away with it but dry is much easier and "supposedly" better for them. I keep my slings on moist sub but not anything past 2". However I keep a large water bowl and mist once a week to every 2 weeks.

 

[TabithasMom]

I wet the substrate of my MM LP every so often, but only when I see him hanging around the water dish, and during the winter. My juvenile loves to destroy its enclosure, and bury its water dish with substrate. Annoying.

 

[micheldied]

LP's don't like it too moist, but not bone dry either.

 

[Matthaus]

So in a nutshell i should just keep the overflowed water bowl in the corner. Which she has covered with a ton of moss...

On a side note, any good tips i can get for the Curlyhair would be aweome

 

[MassExodus]

For the albopilosum just dry sub and a water dish and hide. If its a sling you can moisten a small area of substrate and see if It likes it. Most dry species don't, but slings sometimes appreciate it in small doses.

 

[Matthaus]

For the albopilosum just dry sub and a water dish and hide. If its a sling you can moisten a small area of substrate and see if It likes it. Most dry species don't, but slings sometimes appreciate it in small doses.

Awesome, I'll give that a shot. It seems as if all though that my ts prefer the substrate on the drier side.

 

[Tomoran]

I have four and, like most of the others, I keep them mostly dry. In the summer, it's bone dry. It's humid enough where I live that they don't need the extra moisture. During the winter when the air dries out due to the furnace running, I'll moisten a corner a bit for them. However, I did this last week for my female, and she's still sitting on the dry side of the enclosure. Mine, at least, haven't shown a preference for the moist side. I do include water dishes for all of them as well.

 

[swimbait]

If I were you I wouldn't even keep moss in the LPs cage, I would also be housing it in something a little larger. Seems theres only a couple inches between the sub and the lid

 

[Matthaus]

If I were you I wouldn't even keep moss in the LPs cage, I would also be housing it in something a little larger. Seems theres only a couple inches between the sub and the lid

I'll remove the moss then, thank you!
I've dug out into the hide, so there's enough space in there for even my hand to fit in,she has more than enough space even although she hardly uses it.

 

[Enn49]

As they grow LPs are less likely to burrow or hide away, my 2 never do now. I was told that they like a slab of stone to sit on so I bought some slate and they do seem to like it, either sitting on that or on their cork bark

 

[Matthaus]

As they grow LPs are less likely to burrow or hide away, my 2 never do now. I was told that they like a slab of stone to sit on so I bought some slate and they do seem to like it, either sitting on that or on their cork bark

Morticia has been hanging around a lot on the substrate rrecently since it's started to dry out a bit and I think she's prefering that.
She's not showing a lot stress, so it's getting better. But i'll remove the moss after work and see what she does then.

 

[Matthaus]

And it is bucketing down with a very needed rain! the excitement is insane!!

 

[Enn49]

And it is bucketing down with a very needed rain! the excitement is insane!!

If you'd said sooner you could have had some of ours, the UK has been suffering severe flooding because we've had much too much rain

 

[Matthaus]

I've been meaning to give you guys an update but i keep getting distracted with work.
So i tried to remove the moss out her tank but she just doesn't want me to remove it, but i do want to try remove most of it because it just seems to be far to much in her tank at the moment, but she is honestly not allowing me to remove it.