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<blockquote data-quote="Cody-Myles" data-source="post: 123971" data-attributes="member: 27027"><p>Ts can get stressed if their enclosures are too big, too humid, too hot/cold etc but you haven't got to be exact about everything down to a fine art. Tarantulas are very hardy animals and didn't survive millions of years by being pamby about their surroundings, they just adapted through evolution so don't spend too long being concerned about the finer things. If it's an arid species like a rose hair then just give arid substrate and as long as you provide a water dish for them they'll be happy, I came home to my zebra knee last night with her ass in the air against the side of the enclosure and her face buried in the water dish so they will drink from it. An unhappy T will become lethargic, stop eating, move very little and sometimes hibernate, in the sense they will spend a lot of their time cooped up in their burrow. Mine perked up a lot when they had the right humidity level and what tiny dishes I could find for water but they will get a lot of their water ingestion from the prey they eat.</p><p>If you get a sling then it I'll be far cheaper to use generic enclosures as they grow like vials, RUBs, the aforementioned deli cups, adapted enclosures like a Fererro rocher box etc etc and you can spend the money on making their final enclosure beatiful and even adapt things into an 'ornate' and unique one like terrariums that are used for plants or if it's an arboreal species, a candle lantern (which is the project for my ghost ornamentals finale enclosure [emoji1303]).</p><p>There are also acrylic boxes readily available for cheap like critter keepers and generic acrylic boxes etc. Cheapest water dish you can get is a pop bottle cap or as I use for my slings, a beer bottle cap.</p><p></p><p>All this probably came out as a load of gabble but hey <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="♂️" title="Male sign :male_sign:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/2642.png" data-shortname=":male_sign:" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cody-Myles, post: 123971, member: 27027"] Ts can get stressed if their enclosures are too big, too humid, too hot/cold etc but you haven't got to be exact about everything down to a fine art. Tarantulas are very hardy animals and didn't survive millions of years by being pamby about their surroundings, they just adapted through evolution so don't spend too long being concerned about the finer things. If it's an arid species like a rose hair then just give arid substrate and as long as you provide a water dish for them they'll be happy, I came home to my zebra knee last night with her ass in the air against the side of the enclosure and her face buried in the water dish so they will drink from it. An unhappy T will become lethargic, stop eating, move very little and sometimes hibernate, in the sense they will spend a lot of their time cooped up in their burrow. Mine perked up a lot when they had the right humidity level and what tiny dishes I could find for water but they will get a lot of their water ingestion from the prey they eat. If you get a sling then it I'll be far cheaper to use generic enclosures as they grow like vials, RUBs, the aforementioned deli cups, adapted enclosures like a Fererro rocher box etc etc and you can spend the money on making their final enclosure beatiful and even adapt things into an 'ornate' and unique one like terrariums that are used for plants or if it's an arboreal species, a candle lantern (which is the project for my ghost ornamentals finale enclosure [emoji1303]). There are also acrylic boxes readily available for cheap like critter keepers and generic acrylic boxes etc. Cheapest water dish you can get is a pop bottle cap or as I use for my slings, a beer bottle cap. All this probably came out as a load of gabble but hey ♂️ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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