Do you keep your T room warmer than the rest of your house?

[MikeC]

I generally keep my entire house at 70°.
The room I keep the spiders in is a bit on the small side, so I've been able to get away with a small heater to keep it around 78° during colder months.
It's also really, really dry here so I have humidifiers running almost constantly. I imagine they take up more energy than the heater when it's on.

Poec, I envy your yard.
We have too much pine and scrub brush. It gets boring to look at.

 

[Poec54]

Poec, I envy your yard. We have too much pine and scrub brush. It gets boring to look at.

Because of our long dry season (October to May), pines are the dominant trees over most of Florida, as needles resist desiccation better than broad leafs. I have some native Slash Pines in my yard (reddish bark). But when we do get rain in the summer, in can come down in buckets, several inches or more in an afternoon, and a couple hours later the sun's out.

 

[Venom1080]

70-80 night and day. space heater is life. rest of house averages 69. im in the basement and like it warmer so yeah. definitely warmer.

 

[MikeC]

Because of our long dry season (October to May), pines are the dominant trees over most of Florida, as needles resist desiccation better than broad leafs. I have some native Slash Pines in my yard (reddish bark). But when we do get rain in the summer, in can come down in buckets, several inches or more in an afternoon, and a couple hours later the sun's out.

That's surprising!
Then again, I've never been to Florida so most of what I know is visual stereotypes from postcards and travel sites. Nothing but palm trees and sand.

Our winters in Colorado are similar. We can get a fair amount of snow, but it's sunny more often than not.
For example, right now it's 32° with an inch of snow on the ground, but the sun is blazing. We get a lot of ice on the roads because of that. Melts during the day, and re-freezes at night.

 

[Poec54]

70-80 night and day. space heater is life. rest of house averages 69. im in the basement and like it warmer so yeah. definitely warmer.

Great temps, better than 70 'round the clock all year.

 

[Poec54]

That's surprising!
Then again, I've never been to Florida so most of what I know is visual stereotypes from postcards and travel sites. Nothing but palm trees and sand.

Pines, palms (which are not related to trees), and sand. And almost all of the state is just above sea level.

 

[MikeC]

Pines, palms (which are not related to trees), and sand. And almost all of the state is just above sea level.

Huh. Above sea level you say?
My preconceived notions have once again been shattered!

 

[Poec54]

Huh. Above sea level you say?
My preconceived notions have once again been shattered!

Part of Florida's been under the ocean when the ice caps have melted, that's why we have so much sand. I went to the highest point in southern Florida several years ago on a boat tour, it was a small island off the coast of Sanibel Island. A made-made mound on the little island is 30 feet above sea. That's our peak. There's places in central and northern Florida that are higher than that, but it's a pretty flat state.

Interestingly, tarantulas are native west of the Mississippi and to the Caribbean & Bahamas, even on the island of Bimini, right off the coast of Lauderdale. We're surrounded by them, but none are native to the state itself.

 

[Sana]

30 feet above sea level? Seriously? I would die from having that much oxygen in my air.

Hey PTX-where in Co?

 

[Yanose]

I live in Washington we get plenty of snow rain ect...

 

[MikeC]

Part of Florida's been under the ocean when the ice caps have melted, that's why we have so much sand. I went to the highest point in southern Florida several years ago on a boat tour, it was a small island off the coast of Sanibel Island. A made-made mound on the little island is 30 feet above sea. That's our peak. There's places in central and northern Florida that are higher than that, but it's a pretty flat state.

Interestingly, tarantulas are native west of the Mississippi and to the Caribbean & Bahamas, even on the island of Bimini, right off the coast of Lauderdale. We're surrounded by them, but none are native to the state itself.

Interesting. Not extreme elevation like I had been expecting, but still higher than I thought.
For some reason I had figured it was pretty low, like New Orleans.

No native tarantulas, but y'all have centipedes right? Fare trade?

 

[MikeC]

30 feet above sea level? Seriously? I would die from having that much oxygen in my air.

Hey PTX-where in Co?

Eagle, primarily, but I do a lot of work in Denver.

 

[Yanose]

except for where i live right by a big river but actually more like a desert for some reason very dry and hot all summer snows all winter with the thaw right now making all the silt clay in to a mud swamp.

 

[Sana]

Eagle, primarily, but I do a lot of work in Denver.

I'm in Fort Collins. It's always nice to know who shares my climate and how they work with their spiders. Big tropicals can be a tough keeper around here with the natural absolute lack of humidity.

 

[MikeC]

I'm in Fort Collins. It's always nice to know who shares my climate and how they work with their spiders. Big tropicals can be a tough keeper around here with the natural absolute lack of humidity.

No kidding.. The "dry as a bone" climate here makes for necessitating keeping only arid species, or getting real good at monitoring humidity.

 

[8Legs8Eyes]

Currently I keep my T's in my room and use a space heater to keep the room warmer (rest of the house is in the low 60s/high 50s). It's only around 72ish though because really I can't sleep well if I let it get hotter than that. Eventually I'd love to have a room dedicated to just them, and at that point I would keep them a bit warmer, but for now I just keep a happy medium between myself and them.