ShaunMot
Arachnopeon
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Hi everyone. just wondering if anyone has any info, like humidity, how dry to keep the substrate, heat levels. if anyone has a reliable care sheet, that'd be awesome
um, no? dry is not recommended for any Poecilotheria. Brachys should be kept bone dry with a water dish. dont bother misting a brachy.So completely dry substrate is recommended? For my brachypelma albopilosum I keep the substrate rather moist and mist quite often.
So completely dry substrate is recommended? For my brachypelma albopilosum I keep the substrate rather moist and mist quite often.
humidity: medium (humidity gauges suck)
For humidity, don't really worry about it. Overfill the water dish every so often and forget about it. Adults are pretty humidity resistant. They appreciate the humidity, but they don't absolutely need it.
115F?! If that's not a typo, you're lucky your spider didn't roast...I have raised a regalis from 2i to fully mature male and he spent his entire life in varying ambient temps of anywhere from 55-115f not saying it is ideal but he made it into adulthood just fine. My room has horrible insulation so the temps are not easily governed even with heaters. As for humidity i just over fill his bowl once a week.
Yup i had all my ts in that heat. For atleast a day or two at a time not by choice obviously.115F?! If that's not a typo, you're lucky your spider didn't roast...
For. The. Last. Time. Stop telling people to use heat lamps. It does NOT act like a space heater, at all. A space heater increases the ambient temperature of a room, it doesn't focus heat in one area. Secondly? Stop reviving old threads that have been answered to recommend heat lamps. You've done this before.I keep my pokie at about 82 degrees, heating around the cage with the heat lamps at least 8" away, which makes them act more like a space heater. I thoroughly checked for any localized hot spots that might cause injury.
Any area warmer then 82 just moves her elsewhere, no additional benefit beyond that.
Still, you do NOT have to add heat and if you do, less is more plus a voltage regulator should be considered mandatory.
They do grow faster and if they're reluctant to eat, just turn it off for 8-12 hours and then on again, bye bye cricket.
In my opinion, the sling stage is a danger stage.
By far the most important thing is a full water dish, checked twice a day religiously.
For. The. Last. Time. Stop telling people to use heat lamps. It does NOT act like a space heater, at all. A space heater increases the ambient temperature of a room, it doesn't focus heat in one area. Secondly? Stop reviving old threads that have been answered to recommend heat lamps. You've done this before.
In other words, "Throw down, boy!"For. The. Last. Time. Stop telling people to use heat lamps. It does NOT act like a space heater, at all. A space heater increases the ambient temperature of a room, it doesn't focus heat in one area. Secondly? Stop reviving old threads that have been answered to recommend heat lamps. You've done this before.
And once more you type up a bunch of nonsense that has nothing to do with using heat lamps. Just more off-topic excuses to justify using something that has been known to burn and kill tarantulas. You want some links?Of course, space heaters unless specified by the manufacturer, shouldn't be used without a person who is awake and physically present. When they short out, they can burn down your entire house. Assuming they cut out before that, the fumes are highly noxious, probably not good for inverts.
The fact is that using these heaters and walking away from them, day after day after day, is a recipe for disaster. Again, read the directions.
Oh, & what's that odd smell that they generate when new when you first turn them on? Is that whatever chemical toxic to inverts like Teflon is to certain birds? DKS? Maybe yes maybe no... no one knows.
Oh, & yes many breeders and keepers carefully monitor temperature and humidity even if nothing is done to change them. In particular, B smithi and G pulcher are found to breed much better when natural conditions are re-created artificially. Look it up.
Digital gauges are quite accurate and HVAC professional installers use them everyday.
https://jamiestarantulas.com/zoo-med-humidity-indicator/
I doubt anything I set up can burn down an entire building!! Aquarists have used small heaters for enclosures for the past 70 years?? Maybe more.
Besides, I never said it was mandatory, just that additional gains in growth performance could be realized. Can and must aren't the same.
Seriously, those portable heaters are dangerous. I don't think risking your entire home is worth another 5 or 6 degrees.
For. The. Last. Time. Stop telling people to use heat lamps. It does NOT act like a space heater, at all. A space heater increases the ambient temperature of a room, it doesn't focus heat in one area. Secondly? Stop reviving old threads that have been answered to recommend heat lamps. You've done this before.
https://www.air-n-water.com/article-safest-space-heater-review.htmOf course, space heaters unless specified by the manufacturer, shouldn't be used without a person who is awake present. When they short out, they can burn down your entire house
For. The. Last. Time. Stop telling people to use heat lamps. It does NOT act like a space heater, at all. A space heater increases the ambient temperature of a room, it doesn't focus heat in one area. Secondly? Stop reviving old threads that have been answered to recommend heat lamps. You've done this before.
You are SO right. I am telling you, specifically, to buy a space heater because I know without a doubt that when your space heater catches on fire-- you will no longer come to this board to spread misinformation. And here I just thought you weren't the sharpest broken bottle in the dumpster.For the last time, stop telling people to create fire hazards within their home. Space heaters are banned by many HOAs and rental properties as well as most college dorms with good reason.
Learn to properly control temperature within an enclosure.
See here's the double standard, Miss Moxie can propose doing something that places human life at risk but I can't discuss how I succeeded with zero fatalities or injuries of any kind, that's right, zero.
BTW: did it ever occur to anyone that I already researched failures such as these links listed BEFORE setting mine up?
Hint hint.
There will be no double standards.