New to the hobby. Lots of questions...

[MarkS]

Thanks for the help guys! Lots of info to process.

I'll definitely start with a smaller enclosure. I've got this idea in my head now for an total environmental control system. I'm going to play around with that for awhile. By the time its working, the T will be ready for the larger enclosure.

 

[ShadowBlade]

Thanks for the help guys! Lots of info to process.

I'll definitely start with a smaller enclosure. I've got this idea in my head now for an total environmental control system. I'm going to play around with that for awhile. By the time its working, the T will be ready for the larger enclosure.

Just remember, as nice as you want to make everything, she's gonna web wherever she wants, and spray poo all over the walls.

-Sean

 

[Drachenjager]

Singing like The Who

who flung poo, who who , who who . Who flung poo i really want to know i really want to know Who flung poo
...

 

[Sevenrats]

1. No Avic is evah going to grow into a 35 gallon aquarium.

2. Freezing temps will kill any tarantula.

3. Temps in the 100's will kill this tarantula.

4. 10 miles is a long way to a petshop? In Texas, everything is at least 10 miles away from everything.

5. Why would you raise crickets when you could by 12 every 2 weeks for $1.00. OH yeah, a 10 mile drive.

You can't let the spider get cold or hot. Period.

A 35 gallon aquarium is like you using Texas Stadium for a bedroom and sleeping on the 50 yard line.

You don't raise crickets for one tarantula.

 

[MarkS]

1. No Avic is evah going to grow into a 35 gallon aquarium.

2. Freezing temps will kill any tarantula.

3. Temps in the 100's will kill this tarantula.

4. 10 miles is a long way to a petshop? In Texas, everything is at least 10 miles away from everything.

5. Why would you raise crickets when you could by 12 every 2 weeks for $1.00. OH yeah, a 10 mile drive.

You can't let the spider get cold or hot. Period.

A 35 gallon aquarium is like you using Texas Stadium for a bedroom and sleeping on the 50 yard line.

You don't raise crickets for one tarantula.

Um. Thank you? I believe we've covered all of this.:? Except your first point. Others seem to disagree.

 

[ShadowBlade]

1. No Avic is evah going to grow into a 35 gallon aquarium. Nah, its possible. Ever seen an adult braunshauseni? Or sp. 'amozonica'? What about purpurea? bicegoi?

2. Freezing temps will kill any tarantula. Debatable

3. Temps in the 100's will kill this tarantula. That I agree with.

4. 10 miles is a long way to a petshop? In Texas, everything is at least 10 miles away from everything. Ain't that the truth.

5. Why would you raise crickets when you could by 12 every 2 weeks for $1.00. OH yeah, a 10 mile drive. Debatable.

You can't let the spider get cold or hot. Period. Have you ever bred tarantulas before? And you also should define 'cold' and 'hot'.

A 35 gallon aquarium is like you using Texas Stadium for a bedroom and sleeping on the 50 yard line. True, but its still possible to make large enclosures work. Even though it is wasted in the economical sense. But its up to the owner and his asthetical preferences.

You don't raise crickets for one tarantula. True, its kinda like running a fast food shop just for yourself.

-Sean

 

[Sevenrats]

Why would you raise crickets when you could by 12 every 2 weeks for $1.00. OH yeah, a 10 mile drive. Debatable.

Ok, I debate. I say you can by 12 crickets for $1.00 every two weeks.

Oh and drive 10 miles to do it.

You can't let the spider get cold or hot. Period. Have you ever bred tarantulas before? And you also should define 'cold' and 'hot'.

Freezing and Above 100 degrees. (as stated in the original post)

Seriously, put the avic in a 5.5 gallon aquarium turned on it's end with a nice piece of twisted wood glued in with silicone. Glue some artificial plants to the wood so that it's nice and bushy. Use coconut fiber for substrate with a large water dish. Mist it heavily twice a week but let it dry out in between. Do not block the ventilation. Drive to the petshop and buy 12 crickets every two weeks and offer them two at a time. That's how you keep an avic.

And turn the heat on in your house when it's cold.

And 5.5 is still big. A 2.5 is probably big enough.

 

[Taceas]

1. No Avic is evah going to grow into a 35 gallon aquarium. Do you think they live in 2.5 gallon tanks in the wild?

2. Freezing temps will kill any tarantula. I somehow doubt the A. hentzi that range up into Oklahoma/Kansas/Missouri have space heaters in their burrows.

3. Temps in the 100's will kill this tarantula. Probably, but are you telling me the Caribbean doesn't get into the 100's?

4. 10 miles is a long way to a petshop? In Texas, everything is at least 10 miles away from everything. Maybe he doesn't have transportation of his own. Maybe he doesn't like driving for one little 2 minute errand. I can't say that I blame him.

5. Why would you raise crickets when you could by 12 every 2 weeks for $1.00. OH yeah, a 10 mile drive. No need to be a smart-ass. I'd rather raise my own tarantula food than drive the 60 mile round trip to go get crickets every week. Oh wait, I do. To compensate with the burgeoning roach population, I got more tarantulas, it's a win-win.

You can't let the spider get cold or hot. Period. True, but if you'd read his post instead of nitpicking you'd see he was trying to figure out how to work that.

A 35 gallon aquarium is like you using Texas Stadium for a bedroom and sleeping on the 50 yard line. Is everything bigger in Texas? Including the conceited know-it-alls?

You don't raise crickets for one tarantula. That I'll agree with, unless you want to go fishing with the extras. Or get more tarantulas to fuel the addiction.

I've got my adult female Avic. avicularia in the medium sized Exo Terra display cube and she uses most of the space throughout the day. Even though technically it is overkill as far as housing opinions goes, she seems comfortable enough in it and I have it decorated up as a display tank.

Why the rabid fuss? If he wants to utilize an old fish aquarium rather than buying all new stuff, more power to him. If he wants to decorate it with live plants and use nifty gadgets to keep it cool while conserving energy by not running the AC while at home, more power to him. Sure we may all do things differently, bit its his preference here that's the issue at hand. =)

 

[Mushroom Spore]

1. No Avic is evah going to grow into a 35 gallon aquarium. Do you think they live in 2.5 gallon tanks in the wild?

2. Freezing temps will kill any tarantula. I somehow doubt the A. hentzi that range up into Oklahoma/Kansas/Missouri have space heaters in their burrows.

3. Temps in the 100's will kill this tarantula. Probably, but are you telling me the Caribbean doesn't get into the 100's?

I just want to note about these arguments--"but it's fine in the wild" isn't the best argument, because such a large percentage of tarantulas DO die horribly in the wild. Many don't make it to breeding age, much less old age. Hence having to have ten jillion babies per eggsack just to keep the species going.

 

[butch4skin]

This dude sevenrats is just an a**hole with a whole bunch of worthless opinions and nothing better to do with them than posting them on the internet for the whole world to see. He's absolutely shameless. I'd be embarrassed to so much as know him personally.You should see some of the rank nonsense he's written in other threads. Anyway, I'm sure most will learn to disregard him entirely sooner or later.

 

[butch4skin]

Plus, his mood at the time of posting was "sassy". I think that just about sums it up.

 

[MarkS]

Alright. Seriously, knock it off. I don't want my thread closed. His post was clearly made without reading the other posts first. I've done that myself on other boards.

 

[lunixweb]

Hi, welcome to the hobby, everybody has tell you how to feed your T and all stuffs about the 35 gallon aquarium and the crickets, so, I can only tell u a good choice of plants are the ficus sp. like ficus plumilla or retusa. Good luck with your T, and is better buy the crickets is only one T.

 

[cacoseraph]

during the summer my bed/bug room gets to be right about 100*F for part of the day and drops down to 90*F at night for about a month. had some desert scorps make the babies during that time period, actually.

pretty much all my bugs seemed fine with the heat, except that a few of my higher metabolism bugs starved to death cuz i under estimated how much they would eat compared to what they were like at 80*F.

i have all kinds of bugs too. oh, S. subspinipes didn't seem to like it. i had two adults that just sort of crapped out. who knows with them though.