I finally got the last of my indoor venomous snakes to a new home, which in turn allowed me to do the major revision of my reptile room into an arachnid room. (It's been slowly happening anyway - but now it's official.) I've built several new sets of shelves for kritter keepers and other small containers - but will have some space for a couple very large cages. My wife has staked a claim on one large tank for a communal amblypygid tank for a project she's working on, but I'm thinking of also setting up a large tank as a communal experiment for Hysterocrates gigas.
So.... My question for people on this board - How large a tank would be appropriate? I have tanks of various sizes available, up to a 55 gallon. I'm mostly hoping to hear from someone who has actually done this before - less interested in third-hand speculations.
I'm anticipating substrate at least a foot deep, and I'd like to have a water container deep enough to see whether this species really does enter the water or not. The water container will not be a foot deep, so will be structurally mounted so that burrows underneath it won't create havoc. I'll start with a group of small spiders and let them grow into the tank, rather than moving a group in stages from small containers up to a large container.
So.... My question for people on this board - How large a tank would be appropriate? I have tanks of various sizes available, up to a 55 gallon. I'm mostly hoping to hear from someone who has actually done this before - less interested in third-hand speculations.
I'm anticipating substrate at least a foot deep, and I'd like to have a water container deep enough to see whether this species really does enter the water or not. The water container will not be a foot deep, so will be structurally mounted so that burrows underneath it won't create havoc. I'll start with a group of small spiders and let them grow into the tank, rather than moving a group in stages from small containers up to a large container.