Venom1080
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That's a new genus for me..A pink toe (Avicularia sp.) should be kept on the drier side. Nothing kills an avic faster than damp stuffy conditions, the exact stuff care sheets and internet lists claim is needed....they are wrong...ventilation however, something they never talk about in care sheets, is critical.
You never have to handle a t. There are many easy methods for transfer that do not involve touching....most use deli cups, some use the bag method. If we had to handle for things like that, owning old worlds would be much more dangerous and daunting...lol.
Don't...like ever...care sheets kill tarantulas.
No t needs specific temps, no t requires number specific humidity...in fact, humidity isn't even what should be followed...as a t cannot get moisture from the air, its pretty irrelevant. When you read a t needs high humidity, what it really means is that it needs damp substrate. Your ambient humidity (in conjunction with your ventilation) will dictate how much and how often you add water and re-dampen things.
Direct heating applications are dangerous. To use a heat pad, you would need to heat a larger enclosure, and place the ts enclosure within that larger one, this turns that direct heat into a safer secondary heat.
Your aim only really needs to be 70 degrees...the vast majority of ts are fine there. Many adults, especially NWs from Chile and North America, can tolerate temps into the 60s pretty regularly....an adult GBB would be fine with night temps in the high 60's
GBB definitely can be a skittish t...but they do not tend to be very defensive.
Most don't dig much and prefer to web on the surface and under, up to and around items like plants , rocks or whatever. This essentially raises the flooring in an enclosure basically to the top of anchor points. This raising of the floor and subsequent tunnel system is why they're adaptability is often confused for semi-arboreal.
That could be set up to work, although only for an adult...provided the enclosure still has adequate floor space....I'm not sure what 8 gal vertical means...8 gal is a measure of how much it holds, not the shape....If its really tall and thin, you wouldn't want to use it, keep floor space at a premium.
Maraca cabocla tend to do a lot of digging, and would be great for starting with. They can be skittish, but they aren't defensive, nor are they difficult to keep at all...and they are nice looking, too.
B. albopilosum can do a fair amount of burrowing when young, although they tend to grow out of it...they are earth movers though, not necessarily burrowing, but constantly re-arranging and carrying around substrate. And a good beginner type.
G. pulchripes is in that same category, they like moving sub around and re-arranging, and when young, many do burrow.
