Tarantulas keep climbing walls

[Postmalone35]

Cross ventilation might help.

 

[Timc]

I have a smithi, hamorii and boehmei that all climb when I open the windows, and rarely climb otherwise. They have a wet side and a dry side to choose from, but are always found climbing when there’s a fresh breeze. My albiceps, klassi and emilia do not this this. All kept pretty much the same way too. Just something to consider.

 

[AlbaArachnids92]

Have a T. albo that I've experimented on to some extent as it climbs walls consistently.
It's had moist, partly dry, mostly dry and bone dry. Climbs.
Always a water dish of course
It's been kept hot, warm and cool. Climbs.
It's had 2in of sub, 6in and 10in. Climbs

I basically figured out she likes to explore

Most of my terrestrials are kept dry and VERY occasionally moistened.

 

[TheHound]

As for OP: in my case my Brachy (Smithi) climbed the walls because the substrate was way too damp. When i changed it to something dry, the climbing stopped and it adopted the little hideout and started digging. Now i keep the substrate mostly dry, but do overflow the waterdish from time to time.

Albeit with a Tliltocatl (though these used to be Brachys and I assume must be quite close in many respects) this was my experience too recently. No top ventilation on the enclosure and it was far too damp. She spent near 100% of the time on the sides. Just rehoused into fairly dry coco sub, with a much more ventilated enclosure, and she definitely spends less time on the sides now, although actually still a little more than I would have expected! Early days though - I only rehoused a few days ago.

 

[Dorifto]

Offer them better gradients and more ventilation down low.

If the T feels that the conditions coming from the top ventilation are better, it will climb to it. If the feels an air current only on top and wants to explore, will climb too.

Adding ventilation down low you are counteracting those issues, and offering better gradients on the substrate you are increasing the confort zones down low, so the T will look to them instead of searching better places to stay comfortably.

 

[JuvenileHobbyist]

Hey there folks, sorry for not reacting to the post for such a long time, didn't wanna continue the trend of not updating on something that might help others.

UPDATE:
So i've decided a few days after making this Thread to go with the overflowing water dish method and make the sub expand and moisten up.
Fast forward to now and they've yet to aggressively climb as they did before now they exhibit ''regular'' T behaviour and seem rather content with more moistened sub. i now do overflow the dish or spray a corner every 2 weeks.
They've also gotten a lot calmer after the change, i guess them not feeling comfy in their home makes them more prone to stress resulting in bolts and what not.

I didn't change the sub may i add and the water caused it to ''fluff'' up a bit more.

Thanks for all the help!