Sp. rufus

grayzone

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Curious as to how many of you have purchased these and your experience on them so far.
I cant find any solid care sheets on them anywhere.
Keep them similar to everetti?
 

14pokies

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Not trying to be a D at all but use the search function or type it into google... I remember seeing a similar thread recently.. I would dig it up for you but I'm pretty busy ATM..
 

grayzone

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Google dont really bring up anything worthwhile. Im asking for other members personal experience. I take it you have none
 

boina

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Weeelll, I got a juvenile one recently and I've got conflicting information to go with it. Arboreal, terrestrial, fossorial, ask different people, get different answers :shifty:. I've decided to give it a semiarboreal setup - some substrate, cork bark at an angle into the substrate, sticks as webbing anchors, moist substrate, the works. It immediately took to the cork bark, made a shallow burrow beneath it and put up a dirt curtain tube in extension of the burrow. I wouldn't give it a fully arboreal setup, but I guess semi-arboreal works.
 

spotropaicsav

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Weeelll, I got a juvenile one recently and I've got conflicting information to go with it. Arboreal, terrestrial, fossorial, ask different people, get different answers :shifty:. I've decided to give it a semiarboreal setup - some substrate, cork bark at an angle into the substrate, sticks as webbing anchors, moist substrate, the works. It immediately took to the cork bark, made a shallow burrow beneath it and put up a dirt curtain tube in extension of the burrow. I wouldn't give it a fully arboreal setup, but I guess semi-arboreal works.
Sounds reasonable to me, seems it has already happily shown it's preference
 

grayzone

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That's how it is with mostly any OW arboreal. I got a 2" on the way and just curious as to the different ways people are keepin em
 

creepa

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Just keep them like any asian arboreal and it should be fine.

The behaviour @boina described is typical arboreal Ornithoctoninae so cork tube/slab moist sub and thats it.
 
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