New 75 gal for my rosie

[Jmadson13]

I would still be worried about a T. blondi climbing; especially after seeing a customers improperly housed T. blondi yesterday. She was housed in a large very dry tank with no hide. As a result, three of her legs were busted and kinked and she had a recent puncture on her abdomen. Hopefully a shed will help it all.

 

[Nick_schembri]

probably looking for a dry spot. 2" legspan.

 

[Rob1985]

I would still be worried about a T. blondi climbing; especially after seeing a customers improperly housed T. blondi yesterday. She was housed in a large very dry tank with no hide. As a result, three of her legs were busted and kinked and she had a recent puncture on her abdomen. Hopefully a shed will help it all.

Awwww poor thing!!! Is it ok?

 

[becca81]

IMHO, big tanks are just fine as long as the spider can find its food and there isn't a large risk of injury. If you have the room, there's nothing wrong with it.

A few suggestions that I have:

- Change the substrate to peat moss and raise the level. If the spider climbs and falls there will be less chance of it getting hurt. You will need to raise it quite a bit in order for it to be safe.

- Lower the humidity. I'd lose the live plants and find some nice fake plants. Nothing wrong with decorations as long as the T can't get hurt on them.

- Monitor her food intake and make sure that she can find her food. As long as she can, she's fine.

How long ago did she molt? She's very brown, which is how mine have looked when in need of a molt.

If she's moving around a lot, she's just not settled in yet. Climbing on the wall or anywhere off the substrate usually means that they are not happy with the substrate (too moist, etc.).

 

[Schlyne]

As Rob said It would look good with reptiles, I wouldn't mind putting a boa in there or maybe a kingsnake.

I think it will be quite some time before my blondi grows into that tank.

Nicky.

Not to further rain on your parade, but typically if you go live plants with snakes, you end up with dead plants. The snakes are just too hard on the plants. And heating will probably be an issue...

It does look really nice though...and unforunately, I think it's a bit too big for frogs.

 

[Apocalypstick]

actually, what I would do with it is make a communal setup with lots of hide spots, and get maybe some avic's or another communal species. That would be really neat, and the space would then be necessary
And look at it this way, it's an excuse to get more T's!!

I was thing the exact thing!!! Start with two avics, they would love that setup. That is really a beautiful habitat, but way to big. If the two avics seem to live togeather piecefully after a few weeks of feeding. I'd add two more for a communal as Dragon said....it would be so interesting to see what happens. I'd stop at four though ..... if all stayed calm and you had a known male, then I'd be looking out in the future for egg sacs.

It would be a great experiment and you could keep us updated with pics and stories. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. Get rid of fly trap (competes for food) and nix the wood chips...replace with bark slabs angles against things on the floor (hides) in case two avics are both down there looking for food...

 

[Nick_schembri]

She hasn't molted yet. I've had her for 2 years! Avics would be cool but I haven't seen them yet in Malta.

 

[becca81]

She hasn't molted yet. I've had her for 2 years! Avics would be cool but I haven't seen them yet in Malta.

In that case you probably want to wait to mate her. She's probably due for a molt in the upcoming months and the stored sperm would be lost. Typically it's best to wait a little while after a molt, once they have resumed feeding.

 

[arachnojunkie]

Honestly, I put my Ts in housing about 3 times as big as the T (length wise) about double in width. With enough room to stand up top to bottom. This has worked best for me. No accidents, no stressed Ts, no problems. With the exception of mature males, even the most active Ts are still extremely lazy. They don't need exercise. But as long as your rosea is getting to food easy and has plenty of hides, have at it. It is afterall your $ and spider. My only suggestion is to raise the substrate ALOT, and change it to Peat. Fair warning though, it will take a ton of peat=$ to get the level to an acceptable height. However a corn snake would be VERY happy in that home soooooo you can just send it to me and everything in the world will be perfect.