First post. Two part sling question.

[A guy]

That's a horrible enclosure for a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens.

I can see it now, the people on Facebook said "it'll be fine because they're SEMI ARBOREAL"

A tarantula species with the biology of a terrestrial won't survive a fall that an arboreal species can take. It will die.
Never house a Chromatopelma like that. Put in in a terrestrial set up.


Why is that B. smithi housed like a fossorial?
Whoever you got your husbandry information from, avoid them as much as possible when it comes to tarantulas.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

That's a horrible enclosure for a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens.

I can see it now, the people on Facebook said "it'll be fine because they're SEMI ARBOREAL"

A tarantula species with the biology of a terrestrial won't survive a fall that an arboreal species can take. It will die.
Never house a Chromatopelma like that. Put in in a terrestrial set up.


Why is that B. smithi housed like a fossorial?
Whoever you got your husbandry information from, avoid them as much as possible when it comes to tarantulas.

My local pet shop houses them that way , and wants $155 for a tiny one.

 

[A guy]

My local pet shop houses them that way , and wants $155 for a tiny one.

Just steal it. They deserve it.

 

[DooksnSpooks]

He has proper amount of substrate to burrow if needed, the width and depth seem to be correct. Many many things the crawl and hide on and use as anchors (if fear of falling is on your list of things you hate about it)
As I stated above, I haven’t ever crazy comfortable with the height but I was assured by the breeder and FB group that he will be ok in there for a molt or two. I unfortunately had the substrate to wet at first, thinking it would evaporate much more quickly, but I have since changed it out. So that’s a flight, a molt, a rehome, a substrate change with him out of there, all in 4 weeks. I don’t want to change it out totally yet because I feel like he has had a few stressful things happen in a short amount of time.
HOWEVER, I do want him the hell out of there. I’m taking advice of many to let him be for a while.
He actually ended of webbing a lot more last night after I posted this, which I love.

 

[DooksnSpooks]

My local pet shop houses them that way , and wants $155 for a tiny one.

see my other reply about the GBB
The Smithi substrate is 2/3 way high. Which i was told to do. the pictures aren’t exactly showing it correctly either.
I have a bigger enclosure for him and would love to change it but he just came last week and is in heavy premolt so im scared to stress him more