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<blockquote data-quote="Jess S" data-source="post: 162417" data-attributes="member: 29302"><p>Hi welcome to the forum and congrats on your pet. What species is it?</p><p></p><p>I'm really sorry, I love how you've made a good effort to get an arboreal set up with the branch and leaf cover, looks great, but I'm not fussed on the enclosure itself. It's a terrestrial enclosure, arboreal spiders need an enclosure that is taller than wide, so you can set up your branches and cork bark vertically and top them with leaf cover. They also need a lot of ventilation and the best way to do this is to have several rows of airholes on the sides and the lid.</p><p></p><p>If you bought this tarantula at a pet shop, and they recommended this enclosure, all I can say is pet shops are renowned for giving bad advice when it comes to T's.</p><p></p><p>I mean, it could work for now if that's all you've got, but you will need to think about rehousing it. If you plan to keep it in this one for any length of time melt some airholes around the sides, ensuring that they are no wider than the carapace or your critter will escape.</p><p></p><p>Personally I'd love to see either a cork bark tube or a cork bark flat buried into the substrate at the base (for stability) and if it's a flat, also tilted toward the enclosure wall. With leaf cover right on top. This will give it an excellent hiding place. But that's just my opinion of course!</p><p></p><p>They are lots of members on here who can post some examples of their setups, to give you some ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jess S, post: 162417, member: 29302"] Hi welcome to the forum and congrats on your pet. What species is it? I'm really sorry, I love how you've made a good effort to get an arboreal set up with the branch and leaf cover, looks great, but I'm not fussed on the enclosure itself. It's a terrestrial enclosure, arboreal spiders need an enclosure that is taller than wide, so you can set up your branches and cork bark vertically and top them with leaf cover. They also need a lot of ventilation and the best way to do this is to have several rows of airholes on the sides and the lid. If you bought this tarantula at a pet shop, and they recommended this enclosure, all I can say is pet shops are renowned for giving bad advice when it comes to T's. I mean, it could work for now if that's all you've got, but you will need to think about rehousing it. If you plan to keep it in this one for any length of time melt some airholes around the sides, ensuring that they are no wider than the carapace or your critter will escape. Personally I'd love to see either a cork bark tube or a cork bark flat buried into the substrate at the base (for stability) and if it's a flat, also tilted toward the enclosure wall. With leaf cover right on top. This will give it an excellent hiding place. But that's just my opinion of course! They are lots of members on here who can post some examples of their setups, to give you some ideas. [/QUOTE]
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