Species suggestion for this enclosure

biteybitey

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Just sharing an 8x8x12 enclosure I set up for a future heavy webber I will be getting 😁

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NMTs

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Would be good for one of the Harpactira species...
 

biteybitey

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Would be good for one of the Harpactira species...
was thinking OBT since I already have two H. Pulchripes and want another sp instead.

Edit: but looking for suggestions still. I got three gbb juvies and a mf balfouri housed
 
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campj

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M. balfouri, GBB. OBT would be cool as well, awesome spiders.
 

campj

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Was considering the h.incei before I learned it was a dwarf species.
Never owned one, but I've seen some (eventually unsuccessful) communal incei setups like yours. Agree that incei wouldn't be the best choice.
 

biteybitey

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Never owned one, but I've seen some (eventually unsuccessful) communal incei setups like yours. Agree that incei wouldn't be the best choice.
Oh I don’t want a communal setup, too complicated for me 😄
 

campj

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A Chilobrachys fimbriatus would go nuts webbing that enclosure up they do good work.
They're obligate borrowers, this would be an inappropriate setup for one. I think the Chilobrachys enclosures you see that are filled with webbing are usually like that because there's something wrong with the way they're being kept.
 

CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy

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GBB.

M. balfouri, Chilobrachys, and OBTs to a lesser extent are fossorials and require a much deeper (and in the case of the Chilobrachys, much more moist) substrate.
 

biteybitey

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A Chilobrachys fimbriatus would go nuts webbing that enclosure up they do good work.
I saw this species but it seems this setup is inappropriate for the fimbriatus..
They're obligate borrowers, this would be an inappropriate setup for one. I think the Chilobrachys enclosures you see that are filled with webbing are usually like that because there's something wrong with the way they're being kept.
The OBT seems like a good choice
GBB.

M. balfouri, Chilobrachys, and OBTs to a lesser extent are fossorials and require a much deeper (and in the case of the Chilobrachys, much more moist) substrate.
If I wasn’t able to rehouse my mf balfouri then she would have gone straight to this enclosure..

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The dark form for the dark enclosure 💀😈 I like how you think
 

Tulip

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Apart from all the tarantulas that have been suggested, a spider like a Linothele species would look absolutely amazing in there.
 

Ultum4Spiderz

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Yeah. I just don’t like small Ts man 😅
Yeah and I expected lasiodora to get massive when I first got one , mine are hardly bigger than a rose hair . And two are growing very slow , my first lp got a tumor rip . But small Ts are harder to feed I’ll give them that , I would not mind a dwarf t the smallest I had before was a obt which also didn’t do well .. maybe someday I’ll get another one . Prices seem insane now for obt !
 

tommyno

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Nice designed enclosure although I'm not a big fan of skulls and other 'scary' decorations. I wouldn't recommed it for OBT ... I think adult OBT needs more substrate... I would go for one of the smaller Poecilotheria or GBB
 

biteybitey

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Yeah and I expected lasiodora to get massive when I first got one , mine are hardly bigger than a rose hair . And two are growing very slow , my first lp got a tumor rip . But small Ts are harder to feed I’ll give them that , I would not mind a dwarf t the smallest I had before was a obt which also didn’t do well .. maybe someday I’ll get another one . Prices seem insane now for obt !
Here in Asia they’re quite cheap as I am being offered a mf obt for only $7 and slings are around $2.
Nice designed enclosure although I'm not a big fan of skulls and other 'scary' decorations. I wouldn't recommed it for OBT ... I think adult OBT needs more substrate... I would go for one of the smaller Poecilotheria or GBB
I was trying to emulate an enclosure with plenty of roots going down to the substrate. I still got 2 three+ inch gbb’s I’m waiting to molt so see if they’re female, if another one is fem then she might go into this enclosure

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My gbb female in her 7x7x7
 

Kada

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Gotta love a glass side burrow! Beautiful spider.
 
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