Lice1721
Arachnopeon
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Yes they pretty much live their intire lives in their burrow in the wild. When I'm talking about they have basicly unlimited space in the wild I mean that they have many opportunities, 'choices' to find the perfect place to burrow etc. So on this logic if you give them a bigger enclosure they have more options to burrow etc. They may not like the hide you provide but if enough space is provided they may create one themselves (as I've seen plenty times). Or alternatively you can add multiple premade hides in bigger enclosure and maybe your T will choose one but woudln't use the other if that would be the only one.Adults can be housed in large tanks, but it takes more of a design thinking than in a small, what i mean is that it is harder to get them to thrive with ease, in a very large enclosure. Juveniles and slings are 8/10 times not thriving in a to large enclosure. I often hear "but in the wild they have infinitive space!" Yes, the wild is a totally diffrent thing. In the wild they have millions things to their disposal, totally diffrent from captive keeping. Indirectly in a way, they have no infinitive space. Tarantulas are no explorers that like "bear Gryll" happily walking miles into the jungle. They have their burrow and maybe out of the burrow they walk 8 inch? It is not good for them to venture far from their burrow mouth. I'd say it is more important to keep a deep layer of sub than have a large areawise enclosure!
I say this with 20 years of experience of tarantulas, among this experimenrations with diffrent cages