Which Tank?

[SpiderDan92]

Hi everyone. Whilst I have yet to purchase my first T, I was wondering what size and make of tank people would recommend. I have what I assume to be a large Exo-terra Faunarium (plus all the essentials) for when I first receive my T, even though he/she will only be little (between 2 and 4cm body length, sorry do not accurately know leg span). For when said T (B.Albopilosum) gets bigger, is there any specific tank that people would recommend?
Thanks for any and all help you can give me

 

[Jester]

I have yet to actually purchase my first T as well, but I already have the tank ready and am monitoring the humidity and whatnot for practice beforehand.

Let's say yours is 3cm, the enclosure should be about 6cm x 6cm (widthxlength) or just a little bit larger. If your T has it's legs all spread about, you should be able to clone another 3 and all four of them should have their legs close to or touching the walls.

I think you can use just about anything, like baby food cans, small tupperware containers, small fish tanks, and then what you have for when it's large, as long as you drill air holes in it (but make sure the air holes are smaller than the spider, though I'm sure that's common sense).

Again, this is coming from a novice, so someone else could probably be of more use. But that's just what I know.

 

[Obijuan56]

A picture would be nice but as far as an adult tank goes I would say a 5 gallon aquarium maybe 10 gallon max would be plenty for a B. Albopilosum but they grow fairly slow so you wont need a tank that big for several years. As for a sling that small you you should be fine with a small deli cup, pill container, they don't need very much room at all. Just make sure to add small holes into what ever you use as a container.

 

[Chris_Skeleton]

B. albo's aren't terribly slow growers. Mine went from ~1" to 3.5" in about a year and my girlfriends is right at about 4". So it wouldn't be years before moving it into a 5 gallon.

I do like those Exo-terra faunariums, they're pretty cool.

What are the "essentials" you have?

 

[SpiderDan92]

Thanks for all your help everyone
Essentials being: Water bowl, substrate, hide, Thermo/hydrogauge, etc