Live plants in Tarantula Enclosures

[Dave Jay]

You could do a strip as you say, but if you add water to the bottom of the sub via a tube the top of the substrate will stay dry and the roots will find the moisture below. This mimics nature as if your T burrows the substrate will have more moisture the deeper it digs, if it hits the bottom it only finds rounded pebbles , nothing that will hurt it. My arid scorpions are set up in a similar fashion , the substrate is bone dry on top but moisture is available if they dig. People seem to think false bottoms are for maintaining high humidity, where they shine is when you want arid conditions and low humidity, a burrow will have humidity which the animal can regulate itself by digging deeper or by moving closer to the surface just as it would in nature. Most people add too much water to a false bottom, I add just enough to stop the pebbles drying out completely, a couple of shot glasses a month is usually enough. You could localise it, but as long as you just add water via the tubes your substrate will stay dry on top.

 

[LurkingUnderground]

Exactly! For a long time I was stubborn and would not consider using them for anything but now that I am older and hopefully a little more wiser I really like them! Plants in a spider cage makes it much much easier to keep up the humidity IMO. I used to listen to alot of people on the boards that were always saying that keeping plants is a real pain in the ass but I have since learned that was nothing but hog wash LOL

Look at ants Canada and all the blanks he has in his stuff. Most I hear him talk about is having to cut stuff down.

Hey. Because I bought a breeder box medium. Which is not the right size I am thinking of using it to house the colony of woodlice what kind of plants would go good with them? If I wanted to go themed it would be Costa Rican plants. Also I guess my curly hair could also use the same plants. But I am not sure if I will be able to do that just yet as he/she is only 2 inches. Till then do the Isopods need the plant still in the pot buried?