TheNatural's Picture Thread

[TheNatural]

7 - Carefuly I cover it with earth + coconut fiber

 

[TheNatural]

 

[TheNatural]

8 - I cover everything with earth

 

[TheNatural]

 

[TheNatural]

10 - And than I put the plants

 

[TheNatural]

And here you can see the final result of the 10 steps I have described, a very nice and natural set-up.
she started webbing imediatly and sounds very happy

 

[TheNatural]

 

[Arachnophilist]

Thats fabulous. how do you select the plants? do you research types of plant that just stay small? or are there other criteria? I really like the way you layer the substrates. much more effective I'm sure! just have to copy nature and it all works out! heh heh . Great work!

 

[P. Novak]

WOW very nice indeeeddddd, whats the dimensions of that enclosure?

 

[TheNatural]

 

[TheNatural]

Hi guys,

I do more experiments than reseach, and lots of observation of the nature, I collect my plants under trees and places that have lots of shadow

the dimensions are 20x40x30(h) cm

 

[Arachnophilist]

Ahhh I didnt know you collected the plants.. that makes alot more sense! hey I could even do that! :0) well thank you for all those great step by step pics! i appreciate that! got some things to try out now! heh heh .. first I need to build some shelves!thanks again!

Christopher

 

[syndicate]

thanks for the great tutorial!love your setups.perhaps u can post some pics of ones the plants have bushed out and had more time to grow in

 

[TheNatural]

Thanks for posting,

Im preparing some other pics about plants and substrate. Actually I have 18 new glasses ready and waiting to be the home of my spiders, so Im going to post lots of pics of my new enclosures very soon. I have 6 already done, and I must say that Im very happy with the results.

Im thinking seriously about writting a book about this subject (terrariuns and vivariuns), I have tons of pics and notes about everything I do.

 

[Scott C.]

..............Im thinking seriously about writting a book about this subject (terrariuns and vivariuns), I have tons of pics and notes about everything I do.

I'd buy it. If it's half as informative as this thread+your posts in the enclosure thread I'm sure it would be great. It would be cool to see an experience based book with the kind of veiwable step by step structure you use here, and your pics are very nice. I'd add it to my overgrown collection of books for sure.
As always, nicely done, and thanks for sharing.:clap:
Scott

 

[Scourge]

^agreed^ I'd like to see you put out a book like this.

Mike

 

[Halgeir]

I've tried to see if there are any previous posts about it, but couldn't find anyone in a hurry. But on to the question.

Are you using live plants?
If so - What kind of plants?
And won't they die fast? Or do you use alot of time nursering them?

 

[TheNatural]

I've tried to see if there are any previous posts about it, but couldn't find anyone in a hurry. But on to the question.

Are you using live plants?
If so - What kind of plants?
And won't they die fast? Or do you use alot of time nursering them?

- yes always live plants
- all kind of plants that dont need much light
- they grow to fast, I cant control them, heheheh

 

[TheNatural]

I'd buy it. If it's half as informative as this thread+your posts in the enclosure thread I'm sure it would be great. It would be cool to see an experience based book with the kind of veiwable step by step structure you use here, and your pics are very nice. I'd add it to my overgrown collection of books for sure.
As always, nicely done, and thanks for sharing.:clap:
Scott

Hi scott, I wrote a book about this subject 15 years ago but I didn´t publish it. In that time there was no internet, there was no AB, msn or all this tools that we have today for global communication, so I thought i was alone and that there was nobody else with any interests in spiders (that I knew) than quit the project and forgot about this idea.
One year ago I met AB and other foruns and now I see how huge and addicting this hobby in all world and that Im not the only crazzy arround.

 

[Tegenaria]

Excellent work, that looks awesome!