Alfonso Faustino
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- Beverly Hills, California
Hi, all.
I am new to this activity; and, recently, as of 18-December-2019, @ 1307 Hours PST, I purchased my first tarantula: Brachypelma Hamorii: spiderling: DLS 1.75" with slight bend to both legs: ~2-2.5 years old.
I spent ~4 months researching tarantulas; and, once I committed to purchasing one, I began the design, engineering, build, and landscape for a male juvenile Brachypelma Hamorii.
Many thanks to Petko: The Dark Den.
My enclosure:
- 14" sq. (14" x 14" x 14")
- secured with velcro fasteners
- substrate is 50% coco fibre and 50% organic unfertilized nor chemically treated potting soil
- Sphagnum Moss is used as garnishes and distilled water stations
- substrate is ~7" deep
- 10" cork-bark-tunnel: rear submerged into the substrate (The angle-of-attack fo the 10" cork-bark tunnel is ~45 dedgree-pitch from the floor of the enclosure.)
- cork-bark wall: hot-glued to the back panel of the enclosure added for visual appeal, as well as a climbing wall in case Arogog wants the work-out -- his fall is cushioned my the substrate
- ventilation: cross and circulation
- front-panel door (I don't like coming down from above on Arogog -- I learned this from my green iguanas and Australian Bearded Dragons.)
Ha -- I put a lot of build-time, travel-time, landscaping into this enclosure...only to find out my purchase was going to be a male Brachypelm Hamorri spiderling -- not the >= 2.5" DLS male juvenile Brachypelma Hamorii, for whom, I designed, landscaped, and built the enclosure.
So, I built Arogog a smaller enclosure made of plastic. It's a container I purchased for 97-cents at Diaso. It a common container used to store sugar, cinnamon sticks -- you get the idea.
Now, Arogog's smaller enclosure sits in the big enclosure -- I can't wait til he gets big enough to move out of the small enclosure and into the big one.
Funny the way things work out -- yes?
Check 6!
/s/ Alfonso Faustino
I am new to this activity; and, recently, as of 18-December-2019, @ 1307 Hours PST, I purchased my first tarantula: Brachypelma Hamorii: spiderling: DLS 1.75" with slight bend to both legs: ~2-2.5 years old.
I spent ~4 months researching tarantulas; and, once I committed to purchasing one, I began the design, engineering, build, and landscape for a male juvenile Brachypelma Hamorii.
Many thanks to Petko: The Dark Den.
My enclosure:
- 14" sq. (14" x 14" x 14")
- secured with velcro fasteners
- substrate is 50% coco fibre and 50% organic unfertilized nor chemically treated potting soil
- Sphagnum Moss is used as garnishes and distilled water stations
- substrate is ~7" deep
- 10" cork-bark-tunnel: rear submerged into the substrate (The angle-of-attack fo the 10" cork-bark tunnel is ~45 dedgree-pitch from the floor of the enclosure.)
- cork-bark wall: hot-glued to the back panel of the enclosure added for visual appeal, as well as a climbing wall in case Arogog wants the work-out -- his fall is cushioned my the substrate
- ventilation: cross and circulation
- front-panel door (I don't like coming down from above on Arogog -- I learned this from my green iguanas and Australian Bearded Dragons.)
Ha -- I put a lot of build-time, travel-time, landscaping into this enclosure...only to find out my purchase was going to be a male Brachypelm Hamorri spiderling -- not the >= 2.5" DLS male juvenile Brachypelma Hamorii, for whom, I designed, landscaped, and built the enclosure.
So, I built Arogog a smaller enclosure made of plastic. It's a container I purchased for 97-cents at Diaso. It a common container used to store sugar, cinnamon sticks -- you get the idea.
Now, Arogog's smaller enclosure sits in the big enclosure -- I can't wait til he gets big enough to move out of the small enclosure and into the big one.
Funny the way things work out -- yes?
Check 6!
/s/ Alfonso Faustino
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