What do you think about my C. Versicolor setup?

[Gabe Ma]

Hi everyone!
just wanted to get some feedback on my C. Versicolor setup.
I have pasted a picture for the viewers review.
He has made his cork bark tube his main hide and seems to have webbed outside and used the plants as anchor points.
The lease give feedback if you feel is needed.

The tarantula is 3 niches and is housed in an exo terra nano tall (8x8x12)
Substrate: dry cocofiber/reptisoil
Full water dish.
so far no spraying cage because people have told me not too.
I plan for this to be his forever home.

Thanks

 

[viper69]

Would do better in smaller setup

 

[Gabe Ma]

Smaller! Never would have thought. Thanks for the feedback. How about the other parts? Or just the enclosure size?

 

[cold blood]

Sure you could go smaller, but what you have is perfectly fine. Everything looks good.

 

[dman13760]

/agreed..... nice job!

 

[Gabe Ma]

Alrighty thank you guys.

How about misting? Or just keep water dish full?

 

[Thekla]

No misting!!! You could drop some water on its webbing or on the glass every now and then but my C. versicolor has no problems finding her water dish (to discard her boluses ).

And if you haven't done already I would recommend replacing the mesh with an acrylic sheet with loads of drilled holes in it. Just to be on the safe side.

 

[Storm76]

WHat Thekla said...and for a 3" that's a bit big. Just make sure she finds her food by placing it somewhere in her webbing (not into her hideout tunnel!) as long as she's on the smaller end of size.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

It's fine, not sure why people are saying it's too big, I usually house Aviculariinae into enclosures that size at around 3" or so and I've not had an issue with it.

How about misting? Or just keep water dish full?

Don't bother misting.

 

[Gabe Ma]

Ok thanks to everyone who answered my questions!

 

[viper69]

Smaller! Never would have thought. Thanks for the feedback. How about the other parts? Or just the enclosure size?

The setup itself looks good!

Misting kills Avics due to moist/stuffy cages with poor ventilation. It can happenpretty quickly.

However water dish is not enough for drinking, you will need to add water dropwise to webbing etc to keep hydrated most likely. Watch abdomen size for hydration levels

 

[basin79]

When I got my lass back in Jan 2017 I set her up in a nano tall. Not sure of her size but she was still quite small. If you look at the first pic I did cover the mesh with some perspex.

Here she is on the day she arrived.


She actually would drink out of her water dish. This was after a moult in June 2017


She's since completely webbed up the top of her enclosure. She has a tunnel going straight into the hole in her hide. And holes to get to her water. This pic I took on Friday.

 

[Gabe Ma]

Holy beautiful T. I can’t wait till mine reaches full size!