Cold weather

[MondoMundo]

Just wondering how people keep their tarantulas warm enough especially in winter, does keeping the heating on all day while at work affect people’s energy bills significantly?

 

[Chris LXXIX]

I keep my inverts, in Winter, at 23/24° C Day, with at night a drop of 19/20° C. Never had an issue, since early '90.

As far the energy bill a lot depends about the nation in question.

I'm also 'helped' a bit by my country weather... altough I live in the northern part of Italy (so more colder than the rest of the nation, we have a weather similar to the southern France/Switzerland one, basically) our Winters aren't nowhere near colder like Germany, UK etc

 

[antinous]

For my slings and juvies I use this:
http://arachnoboards.com/threads/incubator-for-slings-juvie-tarantulas.311945/
^Not expensive at all, it runs on I believe a 7 Watt mat

For adults, I keep them in the warmest room possible, which thankfully is mine. I also grow plants in my room and the light accompanied with that keeps the room a few degrees warmer than the rest of of the house.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

I use a ceramic fan heater with a built in thermostat and anti tip switch to keep the room around 25°C, £20 from Aldi.

Doesn't even break onto the highest setting unless I leave every upstairs door in the house open so it's very efficient (it's effectively running at half power when the heating element kicks in).

 

[PanzoN88]

A nice, old fashioned, always reliable space heater at 75 degrees.

 

[cold blood]

This is a perfect subject to search....there are probably hundreds of threads on this very site discussing this topic....again and again.


Short answer is.....

Space Heater

• cold blood
• Nov 18, 2017
• 5

 

[MondoMundo]

Thanks for replies, I will by a heater. Hopefully aldi are still selling those for 20 quid!

I use a ceramic fan heater with a built in thermostat and anti tip switch to keep the room around 25°C, £20 from Aldi.

Doesn't even break onto the highest setting unless I leave every upstairs door in the house open so it's very efficient (it's effectively running at half power when the heating element kicks in).

So you run this all the time and your electric bill still pretty normal?

 

[The Grym Reaper]

So you run this all the time and your electric bill still pretty normal?

It's on all the time in winter and not made a massive difference.

Thanks for replies, I will by a heater. Hopefully aldi are still selling those for 20 quid!

I got mine last year but they've started selling them again now in my local Aldi.

 

[MondoMundo]

@The Grym Reaper Yesterday you mentioned you have a female B.hamorii so I wanted to ask ... mine has been against the glass pretty much exactly like my profile pic since earlier hours sunday morning, shes still in that position now! is that normal? I got her on Saturday.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

@The Grym Reaper Yesterday you mentioned you have a female B.hamorii so I wanted to ask ... mine has been against the glass pretty much exactly like my profile pic since earlier hours sunday morning, shes still in that position now! is that normal? I got her on Saturday.

Yeah, give it a week or so to settle in.

 

[MondoMundo]

@The Grym Reaper Yesterday you mentioned you have

Yeah, give it a week or so to settle in.

Cool thanks