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I don't even know where to find the acrylic. :(

I love those great idea! I'll save them to my bookmarks!

Just trying to help.

Looks almost like the writing spiders(Argiope Aurantia). We get in my area in the fall. Make huge gorgeous webs. But it's just a little off. Maybe they're cousins?

How would you make them without it costing an arm & a leg? I found an awesome picture I just posted in another forum (I'll add it to this post) that I'd love to try on an acrylic enclosure but I'm not sure if it's worth the expense of find the stuff & building the enclosure just to have totally...

That is so cool!!! & wouldn't be hard to actually do it. Just don't know where you'd get the acrylic to build an enclosure so you could do that. And if it would even be worth the expense and trouble. Could you do do that on a plastic enclosure? I'd imagine it would weaken the plastic.

If you have the time you could probably build some floating, staggered, shelves to keep your T's containers on. It'd probably work best for the ones in the lighter containers, smaller shelves, so not as strong as a bigger shelf would be. But, it would defiantly look cool?

I also have to ask, how do you catch & separate the slings after they hatch? They're so tiny and delicate how do you... Well to be blunt, catch them without killing them?

Lol! Yeah I'd be freaking out too if I had someone's 8 legged baby in my care. And I don't understand what you mean by not wanting the male to go to wast?

@Kymura I love the moss idea! That's epic! And I bet it's a lot prettier than a water bowl. Lol @timc that does sound precious!

One problem I have is from what I've learned there's not a lot of people in my area who have T's. I was considering rather then loaning our my male or female atleast before I found people I trust, just get a pair of my of my own if I decided to breed.

Idk what I'd do if a male died on my watch. I'd probably just play it safe and not borrow or loan my male unless to someone I know & trusted & would let me drop by to see my T. (My mom calls me a smotherin because I'm so overly protective.)

They would be able to drink the water even if it's in/on the substrate?

Wow I was thinking something way fancier but I have a bazillion of those around the house!! Thank you!

What do you do when your female eats a male that someone loaned you for breeding? I read a lot of posts about breeding. Several stories were about loaned males being eaten. What do you do when your female eats a loaned male? How do you handle that? If it was my male I'd be crushed!