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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MassExodus" data-source="post: 138421" data-attributes="member: 4086"><p>I hear a lot about fall damage, and from day one in this hobby, ten or so years ago, I've read countless warnings about fall damage/substrate depth and hard objects like rocks being a no-no. It took a year or so to gather my own usual brash/overconfident opinion (lol)and start putting rocks in my enclosures. Now all of my spiders have them. Big ones. And they love them. And after ten years or so, none of mine have fallen on them and been killed, or even hurt. Granted, I only have ten spiders now, but I've kept as many as two hundred at a time, over the years. No problems with rocks, whatsoever, and my substrate depth is not always up to "hobby standard". My question is for noobs and veteran keepers alike. Have ANY of you lost a spider due to a bad fall when climbing? Including mature males, who we all know climb constantly? I'm curious.</p></blockquote><p></p>