help with communal enviroment

[lookerbrian]

I have 2 of each p.Formosa and p.Miranda coming in this week. Is there anything in particular I need in regards to space? Also wondering if it matters about the sex of the t. Thanks.

 

[AmbushArachnids]

Keep them separate unless you can afford any losses. If your willing to take the risk, keep the formosa together in 1 cage and both the miranda in another.

Arboreals should be provided with 2-4 times thier leg span in height. If you use the search function and type in "communal" you will get lots of threads with loads of information.

Making the cage too big will allow them to establish individual territories and it wont really be a communal. Keep it small enough that they will have to interact for the best results. Providing lots of food helps as well.

Edit: Gender is irrelevent until a male matures. (His final molt when he becomes sexually mature and ready to breed.)

 

[Merfolk]

I kept a multispecific communal with both P miranda and P pederseni. It worked fine for almost a year until one of my pederseni's became a HUGE pre-adult male (last molt before MM) and then started to attack the others, managing to chomp on a couple smaller ones... I eventually ended selling the remaining ones separately. Unlike many of my colleagues here, I kept unrelated slings together with no overkill but I might have been lucky... I seen no difference in behavior than with other communals I had where everyone was from the same sac. To me, the downfall always came when a very large male approached maturity. Regular males and females were far more peaceful.

This of course involving species known to be tolerant... I am sure that any communal attempt involving Brachypelmas or Lasiodoras would end in a mass killing!