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 ...
This blog aims to document my quest to cure my arachnophobia, but also to educate about arachnid anatomy, behaviour, and oddities.
They're cuter than you think!
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