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<blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 155872" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>I am just back from a trip to buy a young Brachypelma albopilosum. I am told he is a Nicaraguan curly hair HO form. Has google served well & does HO, mean it is a Honduran form? </p><p></p><p>I combined the trip with a visit to The Range, who sold a much much better range of plastic enclosures & other bits & pieces than Pets at Home a few hundred yards away & PaH sold some lizards, crickets etc, so I was surprised their housing options were so limited.</p><p></p><p>A plastic 8 X 5 X 6 inch deep enclosure, plus a bag of Tropical Substrate & half a coconut shell to act as cover for him was just over £10. So it felt like a really good buy. Although I did want a slightly smaller enclosure & coconut Substrate, but brought what they had in stock. </p><p></p><p>Once home I moistened up the Tropical substrate & mixed it with some Coco soil which I had brought from Poundland this morning & then I slowly filled the enclosure packing it down firmly as I went. I also squeezed as much of the excess water out of the substrate as I could before using it in the enclosure. </p><p></p><p>The substrate feels reasonably dry to the hand & holds together reasonably well, but I am not 100% happy with it. As I would have preferred something that binds together better, so the little T can burrow if they want too. I choose not to use the Coconut shell , instead I used half of a small terracotta flower pot. Poundland had a pack that contained two small flower pots, some chilli seeds & some dehydrated compost pellets. I binned everything but the flower pots & used my multi tool to cut them in half & then I sanded the edges smooth. So two half flower pots for 50p.</p><p></p><p>The water bowl is a small drink bottle top. As I see most of you here uses these. </p><p></p><p>For a first attempt at an enclosure I feel reasonably happy, although the lower substrate against the plastic looks a little more moist than I like, but that should help with the humidity. I also want to find a substrate mix that binds together better. </p><p></p><p>I am sure I have made a few mistakes, but all of the posts here, have helped me get this far. So thank you everyone who posts here. </p><p></p><p>I have just noticed the little one is in his flower pot. So feel I feel happy with that idea. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://ibb.co/drxMmys" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/vHRqX8C/curly1a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="https://ibb.co/GFGjdck" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/jHqF8gG/curly1c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="https://ibb.co/W6nMjy9" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/R92sd0n/curly1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m0lsx, post: 155872, member: 29323"] I am just back from a trip to buy a young Brachypelma albopilosum. I am told he is a Nicaraguan curly hair HO form. Has google served well & does HO, mean it is a Honduran form? I combined the trip with a visit to The Range, who sold a much much better range of plastic enclosures & other bits & pieces than Pets at Home a few hundred yards away & PaH sold some lizards, crickets etc, so I was surprised their housing options were so limited. A plastic 8 X 5 X 6 inch deep enclosure, plus a bag of Tropical Substrate & half a coconut shell to act as cover for him was just over £10. So it felt like a really good buy. Although I did want a slightly smaller enclosure & coconut Substrate, but brought what they had in stock. Once home I moistened up the Tropical substrate & mixed it with some Coco soil which I had brought from Poundland this morning & then I slowly filled the enclosure packing it down firmly as I went. I also squeezed as much of the excess water out of the substrate as I could before using it in the enclosure. The substrate feels reasonably dry to the hand & holds together reasonably well, but I am not 100% happy with it. As I would have preferred something that binds together better, so the little T can burrow if they want too. I choose not to use the Coconut shell , instead I used half of a small terracotta flower pot. Poundland had a pack that contained two small flower pots, some chilli seeds & some dehydrated compost pellets. I binned everything but the flower pots & used my multi tool to cut them in half & then I sanded the edges smooth. So two half flower pots for 50p. The water bowl is a small drink bottle top. As I see most of you here uses these. For a first attempt at an enclosure I feel reasonably happy, although the lower substrate against the plastic looks a little more moist than I like, but that should help with the humidity. I also want to find a substrate mix that binds together better. I am sure I have made a few mistakes, but all of the posts here, have helped me get this far. So thank you everyone who posts here. I have just noticed the little one is in his flower pot. So feel I feel happy with that idea. [url=https://ibb.co/drxMmys][img]https://i.ibb.co/vHRqX8C/curly1a.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://ibb.co/GFGjdck][img]https://i.ibb.co/jHqF8gG/curly1c.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://ibb.co/W6nMjy9][img]https://i.ibb.co/R92sd0n/curly1.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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