Desert Tarantulas

[Jeff23]

Unlike common believe, there a few Brachypelma species that adapt well in desert like environment in captivity, same with Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens. Some of these species I have them in desert set ups. Through my years of experience of keeping these beauties in a desert like environment they've done extremely well with no problems for many years.

In 1990 I purchased a Brachypelma vagans for an x-girlfriend of mine, the vagans enclosure/environment was set up with white silica sand, she lived in that environment for 8 years. My x-girlfriend and I broke up from that point on I don't know what happened to her spider.

I was meaning to find your other thread. What size sand do you use for this?

 

[mistertim]

Other than the Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens are there any other interesting desert dwelling T's that are commonly kept as pets? As a native to So Cal I've always enjoyed the desert. I loved creating a naturalistic desert vivarium for my GBB but would be interested in finding other species that live in a similar environment. Any recommendations.

Well, if you're looking for a "desert" species as in it literally lives in/on sand then you could always go with a Sicarius. But obviously that isn't a tarantula and they're super venomous.

 

[Exoskeleton Invertebrates]

I was meaning to find your other thread. What size sand do you use for this?

See post #48 http://arachnoboards.com/threads/my-desert-set-up-for-my-tarantula.290176/page-3