Hello Everyone
I've got my first tarantula last week without much time to prepare, because a relative had to give her away and since fryday, she is living in her new terrarium (see picture). She is a 5cm long female Brachypelma annitha. The Terrarium is measuring 30x30x30cm and is filled 10-14cm with subtrate. I sprayed the whole terrarium for the first 1-2 days with water to keep the humidity up, but now I'm trying to keep it dry because I read, that you don't need humidity for brachypelmas.
Now my problems: I often heard, that you don't use special heating equipment in tarantula terrariums, but I live in northern germany in a rented apartment and my room temperature is between 16-20 °C (60-68 F). I installed a heat mat on the side to keep the temperature at night at at least 20 °C and a 25W spot lamp for the day. With that, I am able to keep the temperature inside at 28-30°C during the day. Also, there is a light tube in the back wich I got from the previous owner.
Now I know, that my tarantula is a terrestrial tarantula, but she realy likes to climb. The terrarium is one from Exo Terra and has very much top ventilation with a fine metal grid (see picture). During the day, she is always sitting right under the spot and doesn't even try to hide, or walks a bit around in the terrarium.
In the evening hours, she starts to get realy realy active, wanders nonstop through the terrarium and starts climbing the back wall and also very often upside down under the ceiling. She always trys either to climb under the light in the back, or directly climbs under the spot in the front, her belly just a few centimeters away from the bulb (where it should be 35°C or more).
Also, she is not very good at climbing on glass, so everytime she trys to get from the ceiling back on the floor using one of the sides, she falls like 15cm.
I am realy, realy worried that she will get hurt.
So, has anybody here experience with this sort of behavior? Is it normal, or what am I doing wrong? Is the Terrarium okay the way it is or should I change something? And is it to warm or to cold?
I'm realy lost right now and I'm afraid to do something wrong and hurt her with that.
Best regards,
Gobbo
P.S. Please excuse my horrible english^^
I've got my first tarantula last week without much time to prepare, because a relative had to give her away and since fryday, she is living in her new terrarium (see picture). She is a 5cm long female Brachypelma annitha. The Terrarium is measuring 30x30x30cm and is filled 10-14cm with subtrate. I sprayed the whole terrarium for the first 1-2 days with water to keep the humidity up, but now I'm trying to keep it dry because I read, that you don't need humidity for brachypelmas.
Now my problems: I often heard, that you don't use special heating equipment in tarantula terrariums, but I live in northern germany in a rented apartment and my room temperature is between 16-20 °C (60-68 F). I installed a heat mat on the side to keep the temperature at night at at least 20 °C and a 25W spot lamp for the day. With that, I am able to keep the temperature inside at 28-30°C during the day. Also, there is a light tube in the back wich I got from the previous owner.
Now I know, that my tarantula is a terrestrial tarantula, but she realy likes to climb. The terrarium is one from Exo Terra and has very much top ventilation with a fine metal grid (see picture). During the day, she is always sitting right under the spot and doesn't even try to hide, or walks a bit around in the terrarium.
In the evening hours, she starts to get realy realy active, wanders nonstop through the terrarium and starts climbing the back wall and also very often upside down under the ceiling. She always trys either to climb under the light in the back, or directly climbs under the spot in the front, her belly just a few centimeters away from the bulb (where it should be 35°C or more).
Also, she is not very good at climbing on glass, so everytime she trys to get from the ceiling back on the floor using one of the sides, she falls like 15cm.
I am realy, realy worried that she will get hurt.
So, has anybody here experience with this sort of behavior? Is it normal, or what am I doing wrong? Is the Terrarium okay the way it is or should I change something? And is it to warm or to cold?
I'm realy lost right now and I'm afraid to do something wrong and hurt her with that.
Best regards,
Gobbo
P.S. Please excuse my horrible english^^
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