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Of course 'large' and 'small' are relative terms. It is easier to control temperature and humidity levels in a 5 gallon tank than in a 40 gallon. I mean, that's objectively true. When you're talking about a small vs large deli cup, obviously there's not much difference. Maybe I should have...

The ideal is to have both, but how much ventilation - and where - is going to be determined by the humidity requirements of the species. Low humidity = lots of top ventilation. High humidity = little top ventilation, more on the sides. I can tell you that I've kept scolopendra and such with...

If you keep a sling in an enclosure that is too large, it'll die. You won't be able to control the humidity as effectively as in a small enclosure, and it likely won't be able to find the food. And yeah, you can say they manage to do this and that in nature, but the reality is that, in...

Oh ok, I understand now. No, I moved to FL about 3 years ago. Prior to that, I was in CT. Understand, I've kept many high-humidity species on dry substrate with no issues. My question would be: 1. has anyone ever had a spider die due to dry substrate, assuming there is a water dish and...

Well my assumption was that they were on the crickets. It was only crickets, too. Never had any mite issues when I fed out hissing roaches. Moist substrate + crickets = mites for me, almost always. And this wasn’t over the course of a month, either. It was years, with probably 50 some odd...

Oh absolutely. Maybe I'm on the verge of learning something new, though. For me, moist substrate was an issue almost solely because of mites which were introduced into the enclosures with feeder crickets. This was a constant issue, so much so that I’m not understanding why those of you using...

Sure. At the same time, bone dry substrate doesn’t necessarily = low humidity. I’m not saying I kept centipedes in low humidity environments. I’m saying only that I found other ways to increase the humidity without moistening the substrate (save for under the water dish). Seriously – I never...

What I found is that if I used a shallow, ceramic water dish and let some water overflow, I had a very moist area directly under the dish. But yeah, otherwise the substrate was bone-dry. I had a Haitian giant lay eggs and nearly all babies survived. I had no mold, no mites. Nothing. I've...

Absolutely it was the humidity issue. Keeping the substrate dry other than a bit of overflow from the water dish solved literally every issue I ever had with inverts. EDIT: Wanted to add that I owe this incredibly simple piece of information that is really worth it's weight in gold to an old...

Hello. My name is Steve. I actually had an account on this site in 2003-2004, but I can't remember what my username was. Anyway, I'm from CT but moved to south FL 2 years ago. With a climate like this, getting back into inverts was pretty much irresistible.