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Spood-tropolis

A quick look at how I keep my enclosures. Currently, the enclosures are in my guest bedroom, stacked on a shelf against the wall. They used to be nicely spaced, with plenty of room around each enclosure for ventilation. As the critters have grown, they've been upgraded to larger enclosures taking up all of that spare space, so now I have next to no space to upgrade them should they grow any more. The plan for the future is to move all of the enclosures down into the living room, where I've been clearing a set of shelves for them. Long term, the plan is to have LED lighting for each shelf, and to run a heat mat along the back wall so that on cooler days, there is heat radiating from behind the enclosures. I want to make the Spoods a display/centrepiece for when people visit, (should they dar as most of my friends are arachnophobic themselves!)

Here is the current set-up. My partner once commented that they look like spider skyscrapers with the way I have them stacked, so I have lovingly nicknamed this area of the room as "Spood-troplis"
The large red-lidded container is my mealworm farm - I occasionally buy a new container of mealworms to add fresh genetics, but for the most part that tank provides me with all the mealworms I could need for my spoods. On top of that are Lolth, Shelob and Anansi - the original 'Spoods'. Incy Wincy and Big Spood are on the lower shelf, with the Spood-cam aimed at Big Spood, and then almost everybody else is stacked/arranged on the top shelf. This is how accidents happen.
Neither Webster nor Diablo are living in Spood-tropolis. They have their own little condos on the outskirts (read: Their tanks are too awkwardly sized to fit there, so they're on my computer desk).
They will all be moving downstairs very soon, and then as they gorw they will be getting nice new enclosures. I'm not a fan of Braplast tubs, I don't think they look nice. I'd love to have all Tarantula Cribs enclosures (like Websters coffin) but that's an expensive dream.
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