Info and Pic's on Cobalt blue Plss!

skinheaddave

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I keep my H.lividum in a large ice cream container. It provides her with at least 9" of substrate, which she has fully used. The substrate is a peat/vermiculite mix. She is kept in my "wet rack" which is a shelving unit that is largely covered in pastic sheeting and which has a humidifier inside. As such, the substrate is seldom wet, but the humidity is always high.

As a result of using this system, I seldom spray anything.

Cheers,
Dave
 

Steve Nunn

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Re: Re: Re: ><

Originally posted by invertepet
I'm going to have to chime in and disagree as well.

There are many species of arboreal spider I've raised that tend to never drink from a dish or anywhere around the substrate.
OK, like I conceded arboreal slings, I'll conced to arboreal adults too. With the arboreal mygales I've kept(Hadronyche spp. etc), I would squirt a jet of water up to and around the silken entrances, this seemed to work for me, but may not work for others I guess.

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Steve
 

kellygirl

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If you mist and only mist, then you will succeed in moistening the top layer of the substrate, which will also be the first to dry up, meaning you will need to mist more frequently in order to keep the humidity up. I've found that pouring water down the sides so that it actually goes through the substrate works much better, especially for my spiderlings. I do a little bit of misting on the sides of the enclosures as well just in case of a thirsty spider who is too lazy to go the water dish. ;) I'm not sure where I learned to do the pour-method... it may very well have been Steve but it is now a tried-and-true method for me.

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Steve Nunn

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Originally posted by kellygirl
I'm not sure where I learned to do the pour-method... it may very well have been Steve but it is now a tried-and-true method for me.

kellygirl
Thanks Kell, your cheque's in the mail ;)

Steve
 

MrT

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I do the pour- method myself.
Right down the ol' burrow, if the T has a burrow. If not, I take a chopstick and push holes in the substrate and pour into those.

My H. gigas and H. lividum stay on the wet side, not dripping wet, but wet. They seem to be happy. IMO

Ernie
 

xBurntBytheSunx

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i'd really like a cobalt but i don't want anything in my apt that i'd be terrified of if it escaped. i don't think it'd be fair to my room mates either, i don't want to have to go explain to them that their is a totally psycho spider running around the place.

isn't their venom pretty bad? i read one bite report and it was pretty similar to the pokie bite reports i've read.
 

neveragain

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Re: How about another...

Originally posted by rob
photo of my Violet. She's a cutie...
Please post more photo's of Violet. That may be the nicest looking tarantula I've ever seen.
 

luther

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I used to mist, since that's what I was told to do by the first shop I bought from. But hey, they sold me a male B.emelia as a female B.smithi. so what do they know? Nowadays I overflow the water dish for my NW terrestrials every few weeks. They all seem happy.

I only mist the enclosures now if I want a temporary burst of high air humidity, in order to tempt a T out of it's burrow/cave for viewing. I never mist near the T itself.
 

Aviculariinae

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message to alidpayne,

If you are keeping your cobalt this way you will have to introduce a rainy season,by this i mean giving the substrate a good soaking and keeping it like that for a month or so,then letting it dry out and repeat this every year,cause those conditions are not acceptable for a cobalt,you could stress it out alot!
But its your spider to do as you please

Im not giving out,it just advice
 

Frostbyte

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Heres my girl. She really only seems to be angry when I move her. Last week I moved her to a new home of Bed a Beast , some vermiculite a few fake pothos and 8" of substrate. She stayed in the half of a 2 liter bottle I used to move her in for over 2 hours. Later that day she came out webbed the heck outta the fake plants and stayed on the ceiling for 4 days. Day #5 she climbed down and settled in the burrow I started for her. I havent seen any major threats for her so far .. shes fast and acts like she'd rather hide than fight. I hope she stays this way !
 

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