The Spider House
Arachnobaron
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Hi everyone, I stumbled across what turned out to be an old post (from 2018) about lifespan of T seladonia so I provided a personal account that I thought may help the OP.
A very kind member (@Smotzer) pointed out that as the OP was not active, maybe a new post of my personal account would be helpful. So now the back story is explained, here is what I posted....
If any use to people here, I have one that was a sling in 2018 as well as 7 other slings from 2020.
Much has been written about ventilation, humidity and fragility of this species but I have not had any issues with mine (must be lucky)
Basic requirements from my experienc as follows:
1 Vertical piece of Cork bark that I pierce and hollow out various sized holes to promote the team door behaviour (they often find their own hats and ignore my efforts....pfft!)
2. Lichen - if already on your Cork bark great, if not, rummage round the bottom of the Cork bark baskets and you will find lots of flakes haha. Yes this is needed for the trap door they make as others have said.
3. Food - as slings fruit flies or microcrickets is what mine have. The older spiders will take small to medium small crickets no problem and if you are lucky, you will actually see the trap door action! Once I have seen it and missed the video opportunity
4. Water dish obviously
5. Humidity - I do keep these in high humidity mainly through moss, damp sub and regular very fine spraying
6. Ventilation - lots of! Loads of cross ventilation holes
7. Temps - I have a purpose built spider house and all my spiders, approx 250 at any given time, are generally kept in the daytime temps of 23°c dropping to 19°c at night. I will increase this in spring/summer as that helps with 'season simulation' for breeding.
I can honestly say the only difference or changes I make from the normal set ups is higher humidity. No losses to date (touch wood) so hope these very basic, but borne from real life actual experience, helps.
Sorry for the length of post, hope you didn't fall asleep half way through ha ha
A very kind member (@Smotzer) pointed out that as the OP was not active, maybe a new post of my personal account would be helpful. So now the back story is explained, here is what I posted....
If any use to people here, I have one that was a sling in 2018 as well as 7 other slings from 2020.
Much has been written about ventilation, humidity and fragility of this species but I have not had any issues with mine (must be lucky)
Basic requirements from my experienc as follows:
1 Vertical piece of Cork bark that I pierce and hollow out various sized holes to promote the team door behaviour (they often find their own hats and ignore my efforts....pfft!)
2. Lichen - if already on your Cork bark great, if not, rummage round the bottom of the Cork bark baskets and you will find lots of flakes haha. Yes this is needed for the trap door they make as others have said.
3. Food - as slings fruit flies or microcrickets is what mine have. The older spiders will take small to medium small crickets no problem and if you are lucky, you will actually see the trap door action! Once I have seen it and missed the video opportunity
4. Water dish obviously
5. Humidity - I do keep these in high humidity mainly through moss, damp sub and regular very fine spraying
6. Ventilation - lots of! Loads of cross ventilation holes
7. Temps - I have a purpose built spider house and all my spiders, approx 250 at any given time, are generally kept in the daytime temps of 23°c dropping to 19°c at night. I will increase this in spring/summer as that helps with 'season simulation' for breeding.
I can honestly say the only difference or changes I make from the normal set ups is higher humidity. No losses to date (touch wood) so hope these very basic, but borne from real life actual experience, helps.
Sorry for the length of post, hope you didn't fall asleep half way through ha ha
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