They all look awesome. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with your GBB. Once my GBB matures I'd like to do a bio set up. I'm glad I took your advice and bought it as a sling.
My P. Cambridgei did really well in a bioactive habitat. They appreciate extra humidity, and keeping the plants healthy encourages the right environment for them. Also, she was just beautiful there with live plants.
That's one of the ones I'm eyeing for one. My girl deserves one if these work out. She's too damn pretty to be what she's in now, and she's usually quite visible. :)
So satisfying Tom seeing how happy these creatures are in there bio enclosures. I personally think you can tell they are happier even though they can't speak.
Also, I recommend the orange isopods highly. Yes, they are large enough to be in danger of becoming prey to smaller juveniles and slings, but they sure are pretty in the habitat! Bigger spiders don't seem to bother them.
Yeah, someone else was recommending rubber duck isopods? I had no idea that there were "designer" species. I'm definitely going to check that out. I was a little gunshy as there was just a big Facebook discussion where an expert on them said that any of them could eat a molting t (although this wouldn't be a common thing). Thanks, Dovey!
Another great one Tom I will order some springtails or isopods to add to my new Bio Dude substrate rehouses I will be adding plants Iam waiting to see how yours thrive first really !!
Thanks for the newest update Tom. I'm order substrate for my terrestrial T's from the BioDude and I'm extremely excited to see how my T's burrow in it. Take care and I'll be watching for your next video.
Let me know how it goes? I'm going to be rehousing some of my other tarantulas on it (non-bioactive enclosures), so I'll report on that as well. I really like the stuff so far. :) Thanks!!!
I got one that I have had for over a year. I got her as a sling. I have named her Jade. Beautiful T. My first turantualla in the hobby. The other is a Asian fawn that I named felice. I now own 5 T's. Both jade and felice are juveniles. I got three other sling's. One large punkin patch named JackO. One chico golden knee And a straight horned baboon. I hope to get more in the future
You could just culture your own springtails. It's super easy from everything that Ive seen and you wont have to keep buying new cultures for future builds. You could do the same with the Isopods. I saw the biodude's springtail vid that his master culture was 9 years old at the time and going strong. Just some food for thought. Love the vids Tom, you're a great teacher
I'm reading up on that right now. haha I have my own isopods as well, so I plan to do it with these as well. I don't feel like dropping $ on them every time I need them. :) Thanks, Amy!!
Dear Mr Moran, I just had my first terrible molt. I came home after a particularly busy day only to find my psalmopeus reduncus in the molting position. Yey, I thought and went to get tea and some food. An hour later, it was in the same position. I realized something was wrong and I peered in with a flashlight only to see it had ripped off one of its pedipalps already and was struggling with the rest of the legs, and some of the legs were already bending in terrible angles. I called my spider dealer and followed his instructions but even so at the end the poor thing is now a mess of mangled legs. I still don’t know what went wrong. I had a water dish in at all things, I wet down the soil regularly . And there was plenty of ventilation. I don’t want to give up on it and the spider person seems to think as long as it lives the broken legs will mend with time. I feel awful and weak unable to really do much for it at this point.
Hello, Mausamirai! Awwww...I'm so sorry to hear about your bad molt. That sounds absolutely awful. I think that sometimes, it's something within the spiders that causes the issues. I know that I've had a couple of molt issues with spider that I'm pretty sure were kept correctly. I do hope that youre little one pulls through.
According to Petko and Mark even the real heavy webbers don't effect the bio plants at all negatively. They just free the plants a little every now and again with their hands, from tight webbing around them. They don't harm the plants at all.
For most of them, it seems fine. For the super heavy webbers, it can be a bit of a hassle and disruptive to the spiders. My GBB, for example, has blanketed her entire cage covering both plants. Although the snake plant is fine, the fern needs more light. When I got to try to trim back the webbing, it totally disrupts the spider and changes it surrounding. The spider was not pleased. lol
What a beautiful tarantula! This series of videos is making me want to make a bio active enclosure. Just got to figure out which of my crew would do/look good in a bioactive..... how did you choose which species to do? I feel like you briefly mentioned it in one of the videos, but I’m not quite sure
Hi, Sam! I'm totally loving these. The plants just look so darned good. For the first batch, I was trying out the product, so I specifically tried a wide array of them. I specifically picked the GBB because I wanted to see if it was possible to do one with a heavy webbing arid species. I also chose two arboreals and a terrestrial. I'll be doing one with a fossorial species soon, too.
Love these enclosures its something for a newbie to aspire to in the future. Haha bless her thinking that leaf was food, what a let down 😁. Thanks for sharing
I think my first bioactive is gonna be my phormictopus domincan purples adult enclosure. I love coleus plants they look incredible and basically are weeds they will grow in anything and a lot of the ones for sale usually are pretty small. I just dunno how id go about making sure they dont introduce other stuff. Might be best to stick to staple, safe stuff. I think a big bioactive enclosure with a giant purple spider with trippy looking coleus plants would make for an amazing centerpiece especially if I luck out and its a female!
I’m pretty sure the Bio Shot that Josh created can be considered a substitute for the cleaning bugs. I assume he sent the Bio Shot with everything else, so it wouldn’t have been the end of the world if you didn’t add the cleaning crew, especially since Ts don’t have big poops/urates (the Bio Shot also takes care of urates). ☺️
Very nice! I have a 16 inch tall glassterrarium i have been growing plants in for 4 years!!! I have had a spider in it some years ago, but i sold it. I think i going to get a P reduncus or similair sp to put in it!
Picked one up as a freebie with my FNT order today! I'm assuming since I've kept irminia and cambridgei that this species should be old hat for me, right? Your girl reminds me of my irminia -- I keep her in an ET nano Tall and she's always out on display and VERY active. She's like a Jurassic Park velociraptor, I swear; constantly checking around the door and the lid for openings. I know psalmos are escape artists, but this girl is next-level. Should I expect more of the same from the reduncus?
Hey, Dan! Hope all is well with you. LOVE the velociraptor description hahaha Mine have both been pretty shy overall and and not particularly jumpy when I do catch them out. They also seem to be a bit smaller than the irminia or cambridgei. I've had no issue with them whatsoever!
Hey Tom love your channel, I'm just getting back into the hobby after five or so years away. Havr you seen acanthascuria juruenicola on the market at all? Failed to get one while they were available but seem to not find them anymore.
Beautiful T Tom. I really like the idea of bioactive but I think I'll get my husbandry down first with regular enclosures before I go with bioactive. I know Petko does a ton of bioactive, just doesn't add the stuff from Bio dude. He does use spring tails. Keep up the amazing videos. I listen to your podcast on repeat at work lol.
That's exactly what I did. I really wanted to get my husbandry down for my spiders before I started this. I finally feel like I'm ready for this. And thanks so much!
Really interested in these, love the look, but curious about the behavioral differences that you are observing. Thank you for showing us another beautiful habitat and spider. Edit: Have you observed any more potential breeding in the Balfouri communal or more of the odd tapping behaviors?
Thanks so much, Jon. I'm hoping to report more behavior differences. I'm curious to see if any of them act differently. For the past few months, it's just been the males tapping on each other. haha
Hello good buddy! How have you been Tom? I’m catching up on your recent videos and I must say that this is pretty pretty good my friend. I like the enclosures myself and I like how you use the bio active plants and what not. At some point for my species I would like to incorporate these enclosures to my tarantulas eventually down the road. Great video and awesome information as always.
Hey, bud! Yeah, these have been a LONG time coming. I think I just got to the point where I was finally ready to try them out. So far, I'm loving it. As always, it's a pleasure hearing from you!
Two new videos two days apart? I feel spoiled 😆 I just added one of these to my collection recently. It’s a juvie boy but got him for a great deal. They are one of my fav Psalmos
I had a bit of video constipation and decided to get a couple out. hahaha I love these little guys. They have been fairly laid back for me. Congrats on your little guy! :)
Hey tom you asked of questions in this week's podcast, wanting feedback but I think you forgot to post the new podcast ep on your Facebook so people can respond. Just reminding you in case you meant to do that and you still want that feedback about the slow growing spiders in our collections. 🖤
Wow! Love the choices on species for the bioactive setups! 🙂 I have made bio setups for amphibians but never for any of my tarantulas... it's definitely something I'd love to do one day. I've been sort of trending towards Psalmopiinae, Aviculariinae, and Poecilotheria species as I add to my collection, and they're the ones I'd love to see in setups like these! Just a few I have considered as possible candidates for bio setups: Psalmopoeus ecclesiasticus Psalmopoeus irminia Psalmopoeus reduncus Psalmopoeus cambridgei Tapinauchenius violaceus Poecilotheria formosa Poecilotheria vittata Poecilotheria regalis Avicularia avicularia morphotype 6 Cyriopagopus sp hati hati Caribena versicolor Heteroscodra maculata Orphnaecus sp Panay blue (as a semi-arboreal setup) Dolichothele diamantinensis (semi-arboreal again) These are at least the species I have either females of, or multiple unsexed juveniles.. If I had my way (and money, space, time, etc) I'd have them ALL in naturalistic setups LOL
Ryan, that's a fantastic list! Many of the species you have on there I'm eyeing for bio active enclosures as well. I have one set up now that might be getting my C. versicolor, and my O. Panay blue will definitely be getting one down the road. The possibilities are endless! I already have 10 set up. hahaha Thanks, bud!
Hey Tom, I was thinking about picking up an adult A. versicolor and was just wondering if an Exo-Terra nano tall would be suitable. Great video as always and no hurry on the reply.
Soon every single enclosure at Toms house have Bio active substrate! I habe used it before. Not Biodudes stuff, but i have experimented in moist tanks with isopods and springtails. Both cuban isopods and isopods i collected in the forrest in Sweden. I have found that this only works in moist tanks. So i dont think its a great idea to have them in a GBB tank! But keep up the good work!!
Man, this almost isn't a joke. I've got 10 set up now. hahaha. So many possibilities! And thanks for the advice. I wasn't going to use them in there for that reason, but a lot of folks were asking.
I'm a new keeper & have quiet a few new world species I'm a little confused about springtails, are springtails a good idea for all tanks or just bioactive ? As I want to be a good keeper but not sure if I should add them to my tanks or not as mine are not bioactive mine are just on coconut substrate
Hi, Nicky! Springtails are useful if you're keeping species that require moist substrate. If the substrate isn't kept moist, they dry out and die. If you're just using dry coco fiber, I wouldn't bother. Hope that helps!
Hey Tom I have a MM H pulchripes and seeing as we live in the same state and still haven’t done any projects together I was wondering if you’d like to use my male. I can bring him to you or you can pick him up.
I live near the East Hartford I have 2 females but both are not ready to lay egg sacs. One egg sac was a dud and the other has yet to molt. I had a good one last year but this year so far nothing good came from my last male. This new one molted last month and I’m looking to see if any locals would like to pair up there females before I try looking to send him out.
Beautiful! Two questions: You said you have the LED Full Spectrum lights on them. I thought you used to close your window shades so the T's have subdued light. Won't this continuous light bother them? And- If your springtails start multiplying in large numbers how do you control that? Good luck with your project. That Wandering Jew looks like it has grown after a week. Hope you'll be able to do some pruning safely in the future.
Hello! I've always had a day/night cycle in my tarantula room with two full-sprectrum lights. It's light in there for about 12 hours of the day. I covered the window because I didn't want the sunlight getting in and baking the tarantulas in their tanks. I've never had an issue with any of them, and many are all right out in the open. So far, my O. philippinus and GBB sit right out in the open under the plant light (they aren't directly on the tanks). Yes, those wandering jews grow like weeds! I'm picking up some scissors so that I can prune. :) Thank you!
I prefer bioactive enclosures over purely pragmatic ones, especially for animals in their final enclosures. I would love to see more builds such as this one. 👍🏻 And do you happen to care for Hottentotta spec. as well? I'd love a care sheet about them. 🤗
Hello, Frau! Yes, I'm using a lot of them now with my adults. I think that I have about 20 with plants now, and I have many more to set up. And unfortunately, I don't have one at the moment, but I plan to get another.
Hiya Tom my p reduncus sling I keep it in a 32oz deli cup the first 3 weeks I had it it only webbed a little bit behind the cork bark and was out every night and would actively hunt baby crickets it's since completely webbed itself in behind the bark it's abdomen is fat it's been over a week since I've fed it I don't wnt too put crickets in as I think it's in premoult would you just leave it and wait for it to reappear any help would be much appreciated thanks.
Sorry for the delay (again) Wayne! Ugh. From what you're describing, I would probably wait to try it again. Or, if wanted to sure, I would drop in a prekilled cricket and see if it's gone the next day.
@@TomsBigSpiders hiya tom my p reduncus sling has moulted this morning at the top off the bark there's a little tunnel that I've been able too see it from and I've looked in this morning and there's a moult at the bottom off the tunnel so alls good mate thabks for the help.
She looks like a girl, i bred these a long time ago and the mature male was only small and the females were roughly the same size as yours is now, i don't think they grow that large well not as big as the cambridgei anyway. Great spider, got 2 growing on now from slings but sadly don't have the adults no more,
Know whats funny I'm scared of my cambridgei I think I made a mistake getting it what should I do to get me from being scared of it its the fastness of it and that it can bite that what makes me scared of it and I don't know what to do
Sorry, Eric! I swear to God I answered this already, but I can't find the response. I've heard of this method before, and it seems to work well for people. I just haven't had to use it. I DID used to do some rehousings in my cool garage, so that's a similar idea. :)
I was SO hoping someone would chime in on this. I had a funny feeling someone had switched the little label in the dirt when I got it, but I wasn't sure. THANK YOU so much. I just looked it up, and that looks like it! You rock!
I love how safe and controlled your rehousings are. No bravado and showing off for the camera. How it should be done. Massive respect as always.
Thank you so much for getting it. :) Seriously, that means a lot.
@@TomsBigSpiders i love you
Most informative tarantula TH-cam channel.
Thanks so much, bud! :)
@@TomsBigSpiders no problem.
I have started watching your videos and they are all informative and entertaining. Please keep them up.
Thank you so much, Shoshannah!
Yes, i agree. It opens up another dimention of the hobby.
I totolly does, bud! Hope all is well with you!
They all look awesome. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with your GBB. Once my GBB matures I'd like to do a bio set up. I'm glad I took your advice and bought it as a sling.
Hi, Travis! Yeah, I'm curious as well. The webbing is really starting to add up in there... :)
My P. Cambridgei did really well in a bioactive habitat. They appreciate extra humidity, and keeping the plants healthy encourages the right environment for them. Also, she was just beautiful there with live plants.
That's one of the ones I'm eyeing for one. My girl deserves one if these work out. She's too damn pretty to be what she's in now, and she's usually quite visible. :)
Wish the bio-dude shipped to the UK, grr! It does get addictive doesn't it ;) Thanks for another fab video!
Sorry about that! Is there someone over your side of the pond that sells this kind of stuff?
What a gorgeous enclosure! You're doing a fantastic job with them!
Thanks so much, Toni! I'm having a blast!
So satisfying Tom seeing how happy these creatures are in there bio enclosures. I personally think you can tell they are happier even though they can't speak.
It sure give them a lot more natural cover, which I think that they appreciate. :) Thanks!
Love the rehousings! 🧡🕷🧡🕷
Thank you, Lisa!
Also, I recommend the orange isopods highly. Yes, they are large enough to be in danger of becoming prey to smaller juveniles and slings, but they sure are pretty in the habitat! Bigger spiders don't seem to bother them.
Yeah, someone else was recommending rubber duck isopods? I had no idea that there were "designer" species. I'm definitely going to check that out. I was a little gunshy as there was just a big Facebook discussion where an expert on them said that any of them could eat a molting t (although this wouldn't be a common thing). Thanks, Dovey!
You got some of the nicest enclosures on TH-cam. ... but shhhh. .... don't tell the others!!😊😊❤❤
Hahaha Thank you! It can be our secret...:)
She looks like she went back to her own home place. She seemed to readily take to the bio home.
Hi, Joyce! Yeah, she has totally settled right in. :)
Another great one Tom I will order some springtails or isopods to add to my new Bio Dude substrate rehouses I will be adding plants Iam waiting to see how yours thrive first really !!
Hi, Nicole! Hopefully, mine continue to go well. I'll definitely be keeping people updated. :)
underated channel, love it!
Thank you so much, Olesya!
Thanks for the newest update Tom. I'm order substrate for my terrestrial T's from the BioDude and I'm extremely excited to see how my T's burrow in it. Take care and I'll be watching for your next video.
Let me know how it goes? I'm going to be rehousing some of my other tarantulas on it (non-bioactive enclosures), so I'll report on that as well. I really like the stuff so far. :) Thanks!!!
I got one that I have had for over a year. I got her as a sling. I have named her Jade. Beautiful T. My first turantualla in the hobby. The other is a Asian fawn that I named felice. I now own 5 T's. Both jade and felice are juveniles. I got three other sling's. One large punkin patch named JackO. One chico golden knee And a straight horned baboon. I hope to get more in the future
That's awesome, Joe. Love the names. You are building quite the collection!
Great job Tom!!! Very nice enclosure. Tyfs God bless you
Thanks, Debbie! :)
You could just culture your own springtails. It's super easy from everything that Ive seen and you wont have to keep buying new cultures for future builds. You could do the same with the Isopods. I saw the biodude's springtail vid that his master culture was 9 years old at the time and going strong. Just some food for thought. Love the vids Tom, you're a great teacher
I'm reading up on that right now. haha I have my own isopods as well, so I plan to do it with these as well. I don't feel like dropping $ on them every time I need them. :) Thanks, Amy!!
Another awesome rehouse video bud as always.👍
Thanks so much, bud! Always appreciated. :)
Awesome video I love seeing these set ups they look so good
Thank you! I'm having a lot of fun putting them together. :)
Beautiful vivarium
Thanks, Bob!
Dear Mr Moran, I just had my first terrible molt. I came home after a particularly busy day only to find my psalmopeus reduncus in the molting position. Yey, I thought and went to get tea and some food. An hour later, it was in the same position. I realized something was wrong and I peered in with a flashlight only to see it had ripped off one of its pedipalps already and was struggling with the rest of the legs, and some of the legs were already bending in terrible angles. I called my spider dealer and followed his instructions but even so at the end the poor thing is now a mess of mangled legs. I still don’t know what went wrong. I had a water dish in at all things, I wet down the soil regularly . And there was plenty of ventilation. I don’t want to give up on it and the spider person seems to think as long as it lives the broken legs will mend with time. I feel awful and weak unable to really do much for it at this point.
Hello, Mausamirai! Awwww...I'm so sorry to hear about your bad molt. That sounds absolutely awful. I think that sometimes, it's something within the spiders that causes the issues. I know that I've had a couple of molt issues with spider that I'm pretty sure were kept correctly. I do hope that youre little one pulls through.
According to Petko and Mark even the real heavy webbers don't effect the bio plants at all negatively. They just free the plants a little every now and again with their hands, from tight webbing around them. They don't harm the plants at all.
For most of them, it seems fine. For the super heavy webbers, it can be a bit of a hassle and disruptive to the spiders. My GBB, for example, has blanketed her entire cage covering both plants. Although the snake plant is fine, the fern needs more light. When I got to try to trim back the webbing, it totally disrupts the spider and changes it surrounding. The spider was not pleased. lol
Another nice vid tom! More power to your channel brother!!
Thanks so much, Justine! :)
What a beautiful tarantula! This series of videos is making me want to make a bio active enclosure. Just got to figure out which of my crew would do/look good in a bioactive..... how did you choose which species to do? I feel like you briefly mentioned it in one of the videos, but I’m not quite sure
Hi, Sam! I'm totally loving these. The plants just look so darned good. For the first batch, I was trying out the product, so I specifically tried a wide array of them. I specifically picked the GBB because I wanted to see if it was possible to do one with a heavy webbing arid species. I also chose two arboreals and a terrestrial. I'll be doing one with a fossorial species soon, too.
Love these enclosures its something for a newbie to aspire to in the future. Haha bless her thinking that leaf was food, what a let down 😁. Thanks for sharing
Poor girl looked so embarrassed when she realized that it was a plant. hahaha Thank you!!
Another awesome video! 👍😊
Thank you, Gaylen! :)
Very cool setup.
Thank you!
I think my first bioactive is gonna be my phormictopus domincan purples adult enclosure. I love coleus plants they look incredible and basically are weeds they will grow in anything and a lot of the ones for sale usually are pretty small. I just dunno how id go about making sure they dont introduce other stuff. Might be best to stick to staple, safe stuff.
I think a big bioactive enclosure with a giant purple spider with trippy looking coleus plants would make for an amazing centerpiece especially if I luck out and its a female!
Hehe when it goes into the cup and then crawls back down while you get the cardboard XD
She was being a brat. haha
I’m pretty sure the Bio Shot that Josh created can be considered a substitute for the cleaning bugs. I assume he sent the Bio Shot with everything else, so it wouldn’t have been the end of the world if you didn’t add the cleaning crew, especially since Ts don’t have big poops/urates (the Bio Shot also takes care of urates). ☺️
That's exactly what I was told. Still, I did add some springtails, so we'll see how it goes. Thank you!!
Very nice! I have a 16 inch tall glassterrarium i have been growing plants in for 4 years!!! I have had a spider in it some years ago, but i sold it. I think i going to get a P reduncus or similair sp to put in it!
Wow, that must be a gorgeous setup! Yeah, get a spider in there quick! :)
Picked one up as a freebie with my FNT order today! I'm assuming since I've kept irminia and cambridgei that this species should be old hat for me, right? Your girl reminds me of my irminia -- I keep her in an ET nano Tall and she's always out on display and VERY active. She's like a Jurassic Park velociraptor, I swear; constantly checking around the door and the lid for openings. I know psalmos are escape artists, but this girl is next-level. Should I expect more of the same from the reduncus?
Hey, Dan! Hope all is well with you. LOVE the velociraptor description hahaha Mine have both been pretty shy overall and and not particularly jumpy when I do catch them out. They also seem to be a bit smaller than the irminia or cambridgei. I've had no issue with them whatsoever!
Hey Tom love your channel, I'm just getting back into the hobby after five or so years away. Havr you seen acanthascuria juruenicola on the market at all? Failed to get one while they were available but seem to not find them anymore.
Hello, Andrew! I have not...and I'm always looking.
Beautiful T Tom. I really like the idea of bioactive but I think I'll get my husbandry down first with regular enclosures before I go with bioactive. I know Petko does a ton of bioactive, just doesn't add the stuff from Bio dude. He does use spring tails. Keep up the amazing videos. I listen to your podcast on repeat at work lol.
That's exactly what I did. I really wanted to get my husbandry down for my spiders before I started this. I finally feel like I'm ready for this.
And thanks so much!
You really uploaded this when I was about to start homework
Hahaha. It's short...you can finish your homework later. :)
Really interested in these, love the look, but curious about the behavioral differences that you are observing. Thank you for showing us another beautiful habitat and spider.
Edit: Have you observed any more potential breeding in the Balfouri communal or more of the odd tapping behaviors?
Thanks so much, Jon. I'm hoping to report more behavior differences. I'm curious to see if any of them act differently.
For the past few months, it's just been the males tapping on each other. haha
Hello good buddy! How have you been Tom? I’m catching up on your recent videos and I must say that this is pretty pretty good my friend. I like the enclosures myself and I like how you use the bio active plants and what not. At some point for my species I would like to incorporate these enclosures to my tarantulas eventually down the road. Great video and awesome information as always.
Hey, bud! Yeah, these have been a LONG time coming. I think I just got to the point where I was finally ready to try them out. So far, I'm loving it. As always, it's a pleasure hearing from you!
Nice work. Keep it up. Best wishes from Bo.
Thanks so much, Bo!
Two new videos two days apart? I feel spoiled 😆 I just added one of these to my collection recently. It’s a juvie boy but got him for a great deal. They are one of my fav Psalmos
I had a bit of video constipation and decided to get a couple out. hahaha I love these little guys. They have been fairly laid back for me. Congrats on your little guy! :)
Hey tom you asked of questions in this week's podcast, wanting feedback but I think you forgot to post the new podcast ep on your Facebook so people can respond. Just reminding you in case you meant to do that and you still want that feedback about the slow growing spiders in our collections. 🖤
Thank you, Rosalinda! What a doofus. I went and posted it up. :)
Love it brother , so awesome
Thanks, buddy! I'm having so much fun with these. :)
Wow! Love the choices on species for the bioactive setups! 🙂 I have made bio setups for amphibians but never for any of my tarantulas... it's definitely something I'd love to do one day. I've been sort of trending towards Psalmopiinae, Aviculariinae, and Poecilotheria species as I add to my collection, and they're the ones I'd love to see in setups like these! Just a few I have considered as possible candidates for bio setups:
Psalmopoeus ecclesiasticus
Psalmopoeus irminia
Psalmopoeus reduncus
Psalmopoeus cambridgei
Tapinauchenius violaceus
Poecilotheria formosa
Poecilotheria vittata
Poecilotheria regalis
Avicularia avicularia morphotype 6
Cyriopagopus sp hati hati
Caribena versicolor
Heteroscodra maculata
Orphnaecus sp Panay blue (as a semi-arboreal setup)
Dolichothele diamantinensis (semi-arboreal again)
These are at least the species I have either females of, or multiple unsexed juveniles.. If I had my way (and money, space, time, etc) I'd have them ALL in naturalistic setups LOL
Ryan, that's a fantastic list! Many of the species you have on there I'm eyeing for bio active enclosures as well. I have one set up now that might be getting my C. versicolor, and my O. Panay blue will definitely be getting one down the road. The possibilities are endless! I already have 10 set up. hahaha Thanks, bud!
I recently got a juvie of these guys, very pretty in the juvie stage.
Yes, they really are!
Hey Tom, I was thinking about picking up an adult A. versicolor and was just wondering if an Exo-Terra nano tall would be suitable. Great video as always and no hurry on the reply.
Yes, that would be great for one. I'm thinking about moving my girl into one in the future. Thank you!
thanks so much!
It's funny how you can watch 3 years of videos in 2 weeks 👍🕷
Oh my god...hahaha. That's awesome.
Soon every single enclosure at Toms house have Bio active substrate! I habe used it before. Not Biodudes stuff, but i have experimented in moist tanks with isopods and springtails. Both cuban isopods and isopods i collected in the forrest in Sweden. I have found that this only works in moist tanks. So i dont think its a great idea to have them in a GBB tank! But keep up the good work!!
Man, this almost isn't a joke. I've got 10 set up now. hahaha. So many possibilities! And thanks for the advice. I wasn't going to use them in there for that reason, but a lot of folks were asking.
I think I have said it before, but you should start your own line of Tarantula handling devices, and enclosures.
Thanks, Travis! That's actually an interesting idea!
I'm a new keeper & have quiet a few new world species I'm a little confused about springtails, are springtails a good idea for all tanks or just bioactive ? As I want to be a good keeper but not sure if I should add them to my tanks or not as mine are not bioactive mine are just on coconut substrate
Hi, Nicky! Springtails are useful if you're keeping species that require moist substrate. If the substrate isn't kept moist, they dry out and die. If you're just using dry coco fiber, I wouldn't bother. Hope that helps!
Can you please try the bioactive enclosure with a fossorial species.
Yes, I absolutely plan to!
Lol, awesome setup, bro! At first I thought the species name was redonkulous! Obviously, I read it wrong😂
No joke, that was what originally attracted me to this species. I thought the name sounded like "redonkulous!" hahaha Thanks!
Hey Tom I have a MM H pulchripes and seeing as we live in the same state and still haven’t done any projects together I was wondering if you’d like to use my male. I can bring him to you or you can pick him up.
Hey, bud! Unfortunately, I have a male at the moment and have paired him with my girl a couple times. What part of the state are you in? :)
I live near the East Hartford I have 2 females but both are not ready to lay egg sacs. One egg sac was a dud and the other has yet to molt. I had a good one last year but this year so far nothing good came from my last male. This new one molted last month and I’m looking to see if any locals would like to pair up there females before I try looking to send him out.
You da man Big Tom
Ha! Thanks, Joshua!
She did not want to cooperate
She was being a bit bratty. lol
laughed so hard at 4:24 :) sort of a cat behavior. love this series
Hahahaha. It totally is! hahaha Thanks, bud! I'm having a blast with these.
Beautiful! Two questions: You said you have the LED Full Spectrum lights on them. I thought you used to close your window shades so the T's have subdued light. Won't this continuous light bother them? And- If your springtails start multiplying in large numbers how do you control that? Good luck with your project. That Wandering Jew looks like it has grown after a week. Hope you'll be able to do some pruning safely in the future.
Hello! I've always had a day/night cycle in my tarantula room with two full-sprectrum lights. It's light in there for about 12 hours of the day. I covered the window because I didn't want the sunlight getting in and baking the tarantulas in their tanks. I've never had an issue with any of them, and many are all right out in the open. So far, my O. philippinus and GBB sit right out in the open under the plant light (they aren't directly on the tanks).
Yes, those wandering jews grow like weeds! I'm picking up some scissors so that I can prune. :) Thank you!
@@TomsBigSpiders I see. Thank you, Tom.
I prefer bioactive enclosures over purely pragmatic ones, especially for animals in their final enclosures. I would love to see more builds such as this one. 👍🏻 And do you happen to care for Hottentotta spec. as well? I'd love a care sheet about them. 🤗
Hello, Frau! Yes, I'm using a lot of them now with my adults. I think that I have about 20 with plants now, and I have many more to set up. And unfortunately, I don't have one at the moment, but I plan to get another.
Nice!!
Thanks, Thomas!
Hey Tom, I’ve been considering bioactive enclosures. Do you include a drainage layer with you enclosures?
Hi, Danny! The Bio Dude says that you don't need a drainage layer with those. Supposedly, they work fine without them. I'll see how it goes!
Hiya Tom my p reduncus sling I keep it in a 32oz deli cup the first 3 weeks I had it it only webbed a little bit behind the cork bark and was out every night and would actively hunt baby crickets it's since completely webbed itself in behind the bark it's abdomen is fat it's been over a week since I've fed it I don't wnt too put crickets in as I think it's in premoult would you just leave it and wait for it to reappear any help would be much appreciated thanks.
Sorry for the delay (again) Wayne! Ugh. From what you're describing, I would probably wait to try it again. Or, if wanted to sure, I would drop in a prekilled cricket and see if it's gone the next day.
@@TomsBigSpiders hiya tom my p reduncus sling has moulted this morning at the top off the bark there's a little tunnel that I've been able too see it from and I've looked in this morning and there's a moult at the bottom off the tunnel so alls good mate thabks for the help.
I will try and set one of these up soon.
I'm loving mine so far. Be careful, though...I'm finding it to be quite addictive. :)
5 years late, but wondering where you got the lid from? Just a sheet of plexiglass?
Yes, I cut a piece of plexiglass to fit and then drilled the holes into it by hand.
@@TomsBigSpiders cool. What did you use to adhere it to the frame?
She looks like a girl, i bred these a long time ago and the mature male was only small and the females were roughly the same size as yours is now, i don't think they grow that large well not as big as the cambridgei anyway. Great spider, got 2 growing on now from slings but sadly don't have the adults no more,
Thanks so much, Andy! I was thinking female, but I had nothing to reference for that. I appreciate it. They are such cool spiders.
Looks great. Now your addicted now lol
I know, Channy...this is NOT good. hahaha
they said if you make the enclosure bioactive, they will be more aggressive or more wild, is that true?
Hi, Toby...I'm not finding that at all. Mine have still been pretty laid back.
I have one of these coming from FNT tomorrow
Congrats, Jeremy...that's awesome!
Niiiiiiiice
Thanks, Cliff!
My irminia tom really should be on antidepressants shes nuts😂😂 she doesn't do messing around 😂🕷💪
Hahaha Sounds like quite the girl!
Know whats funny I'm scared of my cambridgei I think I made a mistake getting it what should I do to get me from being scared of it its the fastness of it and that it can bite that what makes me scared of it and I don't know what to do
Hi, Nathan! What size is yours? Do you have to rehouse it soon?
@@TomsBigSpiders hi its a juvenile I'm not to sure on the size all I know is that it's super fast it scars the shit out of me
Doesn't need rehoused yet its still like a baby juvenile lol 😂
@@Manchesterceltic Okay, so you've got some time before you have to deal with it. lol What do you currently have it in?
@@TomsBigSpiders I have it in a tall 6lt box that I got from wikcos I'm gonna have to deal with the tarantula I'm just scared
I have 2 sling beautiful species
They really are! :)
Hey Tom with some of my faster species I put them in the fridge for 5 minutes to slow them down.what r your thoughts on this?
Sorry, Eric! I swear to God I answered this already, but I can't find the response. I've heard of this method before, and it seems to work well for people. I just haven't had to use it. I DID used to do some rehousings in my cool garage, so that's a similar idea. :)
That's not a pothos, that's a syngonium i'm pretty sure ;)
I was SO hoping someone would chime in on this. I had a funny feeling someone had switched the little label in the dirt when I got it, but I wasn't sure. THANK YOU so much. I just looked it up, and that looks like it! You rock!
hahah glad i could be of help!
@@riddermichi I told Billie that if I had it mislabeled, I hoped that someone would chime in. Thanks again!!!
Where are u located??? I see a cumbies cup ... that New England LoL ... I'm in NH
Connecticut! hahaha I live in a tiny town, and Cumbies is like the center of our world. haha
@@TomsBigSpiders I love cumbies ... i travel 2 towns over for my dollar iced coffee lol ... I love ur videos
@@jesshinckley7353 I LOVE their coffee. haha I get one every morning, and it's so cheap! haha
@@TomsBigSpidersI run on Cumbies LoL
@@jesshinckley7353 Bahaha
Like your spooder
Thank you!
I relly like your videos more then by: The Dark Den who allways act as an idot in hs vedios
Thank you, Isabella! I try to keep things calm and educational.
1st again! Twice in a row!
Hahaha. Nice!