Back To The Original Enclosure

[The Spider Faery]

So I know exactly what sizes to provide for small slings and T's since that's all I've had up until this point, but now I have a 2 inch Eupalaestraus campestratus that I wasn't sure what size of enclosure to provide for. That may sound small to some (and it is) but not compared to the dwarfs I've only had experience with. :razz:

So I started with a candy container which I guess is sufficient, but I thought that something bigger might be more beneficial to being able to fully stretch out and move around. I guess I went a bit too big, lol, oops. I noticed the T seemed to stay on the corners or just in its hide anyways in there and I worried that it may not find the water.

So I just moved it back to the original container. The bigger container's not a loss. It could be used to provide extra containment when transferring smaller T's, or of course, a new home for a future bigger T.

Just thought I'd share my container size woes. Anyone else ever second guess what size enclosure to provide?

 

[Teal]

Oh man, ALL the time LOL

The worst, is when I was getting some 1.5-2" P. chordatus... They ended up in the biggest enclosures I have (except my 5" G. rosea), because for some reason I thought they were A LOT bigger lol

Now, I just wait until the slings get here to start setting up enclosures... and depending on the species, I'll either allow for a little extra room or not.

 

[The Spider Faery]

The worst, is when I was getting some 1.5-2" P. chordatus

That's the size of the one I'm talking about. It just seems like an awkward size to fit in the usual container sizes and tanks are just too big. I settled on a 4" x 3" (WxH) container for now, but after a molt it'll get something a little bigger. What size does anyone recommend?

Well now I'm stuck with this plastic 6" x 6" x 10" (WHL) tank that's just holding substrate.. But like I said, I'm sure it'll be used somehow sometime.

 

[Ariel]

I ALWAYS get it wrong. I got a 1" A. sp. "flagstaff orange" and a 2" B. vagans awhile back and the enclosure I picked for the Apho was WAY to big, and the one i picked for the vagans was way to small (but to my credit, it was acctually a whole inch larger than advertised, not that I'm complaining. )

I also got enclosure size wrong for a 3" P. cambridgei, and a 1.5" P. chordatus. I'm sure with a lot of experiance it gets easier to know exactly what size of container to need.

 

[The Spider Faery]

I ALWAYS get it wrong.

Now I don't feel so lame.

I'm sure with a lot of experiance it gets easier to know exactly what size of container to need.

It is a learning experience.

 

[Steve Calceatum]

You got that right!!! And it's not always you either....sometimes you prepare for a T that arrives either much bigger or smaller than expected.