Just watched your video on heating for spiders. Being new to keep spiders I found it very helpful especially about pulse thermostats. Many thanks Shaun
Dear cam lady, dear Dave! ❤ Many many thanks to you both for your absolutely gorgeous videos! I have learned so much from you. Please keep on doing what you do! Best wishes from Switzerland, Matt 🎉🎉🎉
I got two basic principles from this video. 1) Let your resident choose how much heat it wants, and 2) Forget what the heater's called, just ask if it can do the job you need done. Both are excellent, no matter what animals you keep. Thanks for sharing you experience.
Thank you so much for this! 🥰 I dont understand why most people do not use extra heat for their tarantulas, as you said, they're from warmer places, it kind of speaks for itself 🙃
I met a reptile keeper who made a shelf system for his boxed snakes using a cupboard with thick shelves. He had routed out a channel at the back of each shelf and laid the heat line used in fridge door seals in it. He said it sat at about 28c. Admittedly as a fridge mechanic he had easy access to the seals but anyone can buy it on a roll. He was happy with the result and it looked so neat because there was no cords or mats to be seen and it only heated the back of each box so they could move away if they wanted. When I had spiders, centipedes and scorpions I had them a bit on heat mats in the winter but always used two thermostats hooked up together so if one failed, the other would still cut off power (overheating was more the issue for me as I live in the subtropics.
Great video Team Beastie. I use a HabiStat pulse proportional thermostat to drive one of their 6 x 11 heat mats as you showed today. It's for my redrunner colony and yes, it is brilliant and yes, you must, must, must get a pulse unit. Mine is 600W, well made and designed for running big ceramic heaters but works equally well for my 6w mat. I'm about to split my roaches into a second colony and will get another heat mat to run of the same thermostat. it will just require a small electrical extension lead plugged into the thermostat which the mats will then plug into. Highly recommended.
I keep my tarantulas in my reptile room which is kept at 80 to 82 degrees and all 103 are doing beautifully i just got another trinidad chevron sling yesterday spicy little thing it is 😊. I love your video's they have helped me so much over the years .
Dave I do have a question actually I have my spoods in a walk in closet it's a 10lx6wx6h nothing huge but big enough for me for now I use a che to warm the room itself I don't have it facing them directly but into the room it's great for winter I'm in new York and in the" finished " room off the attic so in the winter it's ice cold and in the summer it's like the depths of hell so in suer it's a solid 79/80° w/out heat And around 85 in winter with heat I'm curious if u think outside of the humidity is ok altho I will say I notice thw water bowls dry out pretty quick which now after seeing this vid I'm curious if it's Bec of the che however it's 80 in there without heat in the summer so who knows but I'm curious on what u think
Thank you for this video. I needed this video. As to i live in south africa and we in winter now and are worried about my t's in this cold. I them all in my cupboard thinking it would help. As i dont have a heater in my house
Thank you for taking the time to thoroughly cover this subject! Well done! Thoughts on future videos: I'd imagine the obvious; taking us along on your journey to a new Beastie Room. I myself, am very curious about the planning, requirements, and eventual making of such an place! Especially since this will be a standalone room.
Very informative as well as useful video dear Dave and Sweet Camera Lady, and I do agree with judgementhammer5254 😂😊👍! Have a wonderful new week all! 👋🇸🇪♥️💐🌞🕷👍
another good educational video PROFF to help the hobby. some great work from the beastie room point of view with your vast knowlage in keeping animals. good capture of footage CAMERA LADY. take care guys and many thanks
I’ve cooked a few T’s experimenting w heating and temps daylight humidity seasonal changes. Science has not done enough research in these areas and species locations around the world. Hopefully some day years long research will be published on specific species involving thermoregulation seasonal changes locations etc. I appreciate everything you do in this awesome hobby to better teach and understand Tarantulas . Thank you for always sharing. You are the best! 😊
Good information. I was thinking about how to heat sections of my room. I love that you give cheaper options. I'm going to look for the cables! Thanks Dave
Superb video both of you 👏 I remember being new to hobby many years ago and so many different videos and options and opinions from others and this became very confusing 👍I now heat the room like you guys do as my collection is large
I’ve been a fan of using rheostat instead of the thermostats with the probe. Since I’m not really trusting the probe anyway I just adjust my rheostat to match the temp that I’m looking to see in my separate thermometer. Works like a charm
Brilliant Dave, that was informative and very enjoyable, and very useful Dave it's an important subject to cover aswell, anyway Dave that's another super job by yourself and camera 📷 lady Dave.
Really useful video. All the time with cold temperatures I ask myself what's the best way to heat. I learn a lot with your videos. Love them. Sorry for my english,. BR Silke from Germany Berlin
With the laser measurement be careful with the emissivity of the surface material, it must match the value programmed in the laser thermometer if not the reading might not be ok. Love your videos, greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹
If I had a room dedicated to my Ts I'd definitely do it the same as you guys! I personally only have around 30 and on a nice wooden custom built shelving rack. I heat mine with lights on a heating dimmer so the heating comes from above like in nature. They all seem to come out and bask and then go hide when they need to be cooler. It all depends on the set up I suppose.
5:26... Tip for u guys (not spiders)^^ in regaurds of saving on heating, instead of turning it completely off, set ur thermostat at a low temp (I do mine at about 18°C) when I'm gone. This way, ur tilt doesn't use so much energy to bring the temps up, and u don't spend much to keep the temps so low, it saves in the long run. \O>
Ello Dave!!!! Good day sir can't wait to watch the vid love everything u put out and I swear by ur keeping and as a first time keeper I'm super glad I found ur page before learning bad keeping skills
I use a 25w led heat lamp for 2 enclosures so it only heats a corner in each enclosure. I measured the temps in each corner and it never goes above 30 ° C. My spiders seem to love it and i have no issues with drying the enclosure out or overheating.
Great video. I have been looking at getting into the hobby. You are my go to for information as i know you are not endorsed by anyone and its purely your personal opinion & experience.
Hello Dave, Great video again!! I would like to share some experiences I had, maybe it can be of help for some of your viewers. As you know, I made a replica of your incubator, together with the same pulsethermostat. I had some heatmats stored, that were not in use, but they had a dimmer on the powerline to regulate the heat (Reptimat), so, thought to use these, to prevent me buying new ones, setting the dimmer to max. This does NOT work in combination with a pulsethermostat!!, (although it worked with a Exo terra thermostat)we can only use a heatmat or cable, without a dimmer on the powerline, it doesn't matter if you set the dimmer to max, it simply does not work. (only option would be to remove the dimmer, and reconnect and insulate the wiring). Regarding the incubator, I mounted the heatmat against the back, like you did, but as you know, I found out that its better to leave both slidingdoors open with a 1 cm gap, for better ventilation. this, especially since I kept avicularia slings inside the incubator. I found out the hard way, losing a few, but since I left a gap on both sides for better ventilation, every spider/sling does very well, not only the avic's. I mounted my heatingcable on a black painted wooden long board, and used staples to keep the heatcable in place, offcourse its very very important to allign the stapler correct to prevent the staple penetrating the cable. I found out that the adhesive on the aluminiumtape in time didn't hold the cable in placein time. I mounted the long wooden black board against the wall just above the shelf, like you explained in your video, enabling me to slide the enclosure to and from the heatcable. When you use an exo terra enclosure, be sure to REMOVE the styrene background, because it prevents the heat entering the enclosure. A very important note about heatlamps/ external light is, when you use an exo terra, it melts the plastic frame that holds the steel wired mesh!!! You don't want to know how many second hand enclosures are offered with a misformed plastic frame on top, people just not realising what can happen obviously.and they were all using an original exo terra lamphood. Best regards, Rob
Thanks for the vid, I’m definitely rethinking how I’m setting mine up now. Any chance you could do something on when things go wrong and how to handle it? I’ve always wondered what I’d do if any of mine darted up my arm during a rehouse for example. Be great to get some info on handling situations like that. I’ve been keeping for about a year now, nothing has happened but it would be good to know what to do in the event it did.
Loved the video Dave this was really helpful in sorting way for me to heat some of my Ts as well as inverts! I wanted to ask i have some shelving I want to put my tarantulas in, could I use the heat cable and wrap it on the underside of one shelf so the heat comes from above and warms the area below it if that makes sense?
The pulse is what we use for our ball python. My Ts are in my bedroom & I'm using no heating just now. I woke up at 7am & temp in my room was 24⁰C! It's only going to get warmer during the day. Im Scottish, I'm not built for this heat lol
A lot of our ball pythons equipment is branded. But we got him (hes a 4yr old blue eyed leucistic), enclosure & everything needed for him, heat, light substrate, hides, spare bulbs, timers, extra heat mats & so much more all for £150! All we had to do was bring him home & plug stuff in! Old owner was heading to uni & didn't think she'd have time for him anymore. He's an absolute sweetheart.
I’ve used red heat lamps clamped on shelving but kept the light perpendicular to all the shelves as a “blanket” of heated light, it seems to do okay, but isn’t really efficient, hoping to move into a new place where we can have a dedicated room for our spiders 🤞
I have a few enclosures with low watt heat mats with only a good thermometer inside. I’ve checked the thermometer every day for years now and It never ever gets more than one degree or two above the current room temp. Maybe a waste with such low output but I guess the heat mat could fail and give too much heat? I have too many enclosures to have as many thermostats.
Very helpful! I’ve been trying to decide how best to keep my juvies warm after they “graduate” out of the sling nursery box. (Used a fish tank turned on its side and built an insulated wooden box around it, with sliding plexiglass doors on the front.) They’ll be going onto a shelf (much like yours) eventually, so this was very useful! Thank you. You mentioned humidity near the beginning. My question is: How do we safely lower humidity? I live in Pennsylvania and near a creek. The humidity here is often high. 80-90% or more outside (94% right now), and around 70%+ indoors; most of the year. I’d love to keep drier species like GBB/desert species, but the humidity 3/4 of the year worries me. 😅
Thank you for a very informative video, I live in Brecon in Wales which means it is very very cold here the temperatures can drop quickly so a heat mat is essential! I could do with a heat mat under my bum to keep me warm I feel the cold very easily although I am in the stages of a different time in my life so I am bloody hot all the time! I am looking forward to the opening of the new spider house, I am sure Camera lady will be trying to find you and you have hidden yourself away in your room, are you going to film it in stages or are you just going to show us once it is complete? How long will it take to build it? Thank you for a great video . ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.
I have an oil heater that on low and power just half way between low and medium I get 79-80 degrees. But humidity in room drops, but my enclosures for my humidity loving P. Victor1, Irminia, Het, Mac, geniculata are at 70, room drops to 55%, I guess that works, I have two dryer species a P. Hamori, GBB, Obt, that I just have water dish for , I spray the others like every 3-4 days
Love your videos dave even after 15yrs in the hobbie I still find myself learning new things. My question is when it comes to tarantulas with some serious age is it worth breaking down the enclosure for a new one. My P.rufilata is about 13yrs old and I want to do a rehouse but I also feel it's been working all these years. Should I change it or leave it the way it is?
Hi Dave. If I just have the one small arboreal enclosure would you still use a small incubator for that. I am getting a T Seladonia shortly so want to make sure it is warm enough. It’ll be kept in the sling pot initially but I will be rehousing it in time…hopefully.
Dave and the lovely camera woman, can I ask, do you keep your room at 80, day and night. I have a walk in cupboard that I turned into my spider room, it's only 4ft wide by 8ft long, I also have an oil filled radiator that I keep at 80 dg day and night, but I'm wondering if it should be a wee bit cooler at night...cheers and love from Inverness 🏴
If you have one long heat mat plugged into a thermostat, for several enclosures, you would only have one probe. Would it be enough to keep tabs on one enclosure?
Hey Dave, during the summer, my room hovers in the high 70's to low 80's. And in the winter, I use a space heater to provide supplemental heating. It probably keeps the room in the low 70's (may occasionally dipping into the high 60's). I guess what worries me is I really don't provide my spiders a gradient at all. They are all exposed to the same room temperature. There is a slight difference between the high and low shelves but it isn't much (maybe a degree or so). Do you think I should make any changes to my heating systems to give my spiders more of a gradient?
@@daveslittlebeastiesthat’s understandable, but how do you connect multiple long heat cables to a thermostat and seeing you use a room heater, is it also necessary to run the cables as well?
I recently was at a petco and they had a “heated rock” I didn’t pay too much attention to it as I passed by. But from what I remember was that it was a fake decorative rock that could be powered to heat itself up. It’s definitely for reptiles but what’s your opinion on something like that? Obviously in a situation like you or I and having many tarantulas it wouldn’t be viable at all. But I’m curious to see what a tarantula would do with something like that.
After what Dave has just told us, I don't think I would be buying one. Good question though, I expect many would like to know Dave's opinion on that rock 🤔
@@elainebines6803 right but referring back to him saying they regulate themselves I can’t see how it would be harmful to them as long as you can regulate how hot the rock can get. I just wanted to see his thoughts like you said
Those heated rocks are suitable for absolutely nothing. They have been a scam for decades. They exist only to overheat and kill your pet. Avoid at all costs.
What if your room is always around 24-28 on temp without any added heating would you have to have the needs of added heat? ive checked around my room for colder spots what is really only near my window as ive always got it open a little to help let fresh air into the room and to help take some of the warmer air out, been keeping spiders now around a year and half from slings to SA with this kind of setup and touch wood its been fine, but what would your thoughts be about this dave
So i have a glass terrarium 30*30*40 cm, if i use a pulse thermostat can i then stick the matt (7w) directly to the outside glass of the terrarium? Or does it neet something in between still. Thank you so much for your help
Dave, the room that my creatures are in gets really cold in the winter, I’m talking as low as 14C. I’ve always put heat mats covering the whole enclosure because if it doesn’t, the spider or whatever invert it is will get too cold. Why would you recommend?
@@daveslittlebeasties thanks Dave, so if I just cover half the enclosure with a mat, the spider will still be able to regulate its heat well even if the room is chilly? 😀
@@daveslittlebeasties thanks Dave, so if I just cover half the enclosure with a mat, the spider will still be able to regulate its heat well even if the room is chilly? 😀
Providing they are on a thermostat they should be fine , remember to only cover one third of the enclosure allowing your spider room to retreat if needed 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties ok thank you for responding but at night the heating goes off for the reptiles so I would imagine I would have to implement something during that period?
Be calm, be gentle, and don’t cook your spider.
Wonderful comment 😮😂😊❤!
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They do cook and eat spiders in Thailand though. 😅
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I love this, I'm familiar with the reptile heating stuff and the "if you're comfortable then your spider is comfortable" Always made me uneasy.
Yes that started many many years ago it was a rubbish comment then and still is today 😂👍
Just watched your video on heating for spiders.
Being new to keep spiders I found it very helpful especially about pulse thermostats.
Many thanks
Shaun
Quite brave walking around THAT room barefoot! I couldn't do it!
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Dear cam lady, dear Dave! ❤ Many many thanks to you both for your absolutely gorgeous videos! I have learned so much from you. Please keep on doing what you do! Best wishes from Switzerland, Matt 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you many more to come we are almost in our new room ❤️👍
Bought 2 slings from the invert show in Coventry yesterday I spoke to you and the camera lady every could not wait to see the New arrivals.🎉
A whole room is my next step.With the warm.water fish tanks included 😂
Brilliant video very informative very useful especially for us newbies.
Cheers mate
Ooooh, this one was uploaded on my 19th birthday!
Not really a better birthday present than a nice, 40 minute long Beastie video! ❤
Wow I have been really thinking and wanting to learn about this. Thank you. My thought plan hit you 😂
I got two basic principles from this video. 1) Let your resident choose how much heat it wants, and 2) Forget what the heater's called, just ask if it can do the job you need done. Both are excellent, no matter what animals you keep. Thanks for sharing you experience.
Valuable information as always. Thank you for all you do. It helps so many of us.
Even though I don't keep spiders I luv em and this vid is very informative well done Dave n Camera Lady for keepin your hobby affordable .
Thank you glad your enjoying them ❤
Thank you so much for this! 🥰
I dont understand why most people do not use extra heat for their tarantulas, as you said, they're from warmer places, it kind of speaks for itself 🙃
Thank you for all visual examples.
I met a reptile keeper who made a shelf system for his boxed snakes using a cupboard with thick shelves. He had routed out a channel at the back of each shelf and laid the heat line used in fridge door seals in it. He said it sat at about 28c. Admittedly as a fridge mechanic he had easy access to the seals but anyone can buy it on a roll. He was happy with the result and it looked so neat because there was no cords or mats to be seen and it only heated the back of each box so they could move away if they wanted.
When I had spiders, centipedes and scorpions I had them a bit on heat mats in the winter but always used two thermostats hooked up together so if one failed, the other would still cut off power (overheating was more the issue for me as I live in the subtropics.
Great video Team Beastie.
I use a HabiStat pulse proportional thermostat to drive one of their 6 x 11 heat mats as you showed today. It's for my redrunner colony and yes, it is brilliant and yes, you must, must, must get a pulse unit.
Mine is 600W, well made and designed for running big ceramic heaters but works equally well for my 6w mat. I'm about to split my roaches into a second colony and will get another heat mat to run of the same thermostat. it will just require a small electrical extension lead plugged into the thermostat which the mats will then plug into. Highly recommended.
I keep my tarantulas in my reptile room which is kept at 80 to 82 degrees and all 103 are doing beautifully i just got another trinidad chevron sling yesterday spicy little thing it is 😊. I love your video's they have helped me so much over the years .
Thats great mate glad to be of help 👍❤️
Step by step on pulling the egg sack, to looking after them to splitting them up, love the videos
I must say I'm super grateful u guys always respond anytime I have a question and I am super grateful for that!!!
Our pleasure!🙏
Dave I do have a question actually I have my spoods in a walk in closet it's a 10lx6wx6h nothing huge but big enough for me for now I use a che to warm the room itself I don't have it facing them directly but into the room it's great for winter I'm in new York and in the" finished " room off the attic so in the winter it's ice cold and in the summer it's like the depths of hell so in suer it's a solid 79/80° w/out heat And around 85 in winter with heat I'm curious if u think outside of the humidity is ok altho I will say I notice thw water bowls dry out pretty quick which now after seeing this vid I'm curious if it's Bec of the che however it's 80 in there without heat in the summer so who knows but I'm curious on what u think
Great topic Dave 👍thanks for the lessons on how to keep spiders 😉
Thank you Dave and camera lady, this video was very informative. ❤
Alway top notch content Sir. Thank you
Much appreciated❤️👍
Brilliant… have slings arriving soon & this answered my questions… my thought rays clearly reached you 🙏
Thank you Dave for all the useful information! Your timing is immaculate!
Glad it was helpful!❤️👍
AWESOME info Dave thats what I do heat the room with an Oil Filled Radiator much easier and simple
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Thanks dave! Really useful video ❤
Glad you liked it!!❤️
Good video as someone who has both spiders and reptiles a heat gun is the best thing to use along with the thermostat
Thank you for this video. I needed this video. As to i live in south africa and we in winter now and are worried about my t's in this cold. I them all in my cupboard thinking it would help. As i dont have a heater in my house
Love your videos I learned so much from you i find myself just going back and watching them over and over again it like reading a book 👍👍
Wonderful! Glad you enjoy them ❤️🙏
Great infonfrom an avid "hobbiest".
Brilliant video once again guys 👏🫶
Always learn something watching!
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Thank you for taking the time to thoroughly cover this subject! Well done! Thoughts on future videos: I'd imagine the obvious; taking us along on your journey to a new Beastie Room. I myself, am very curious about the planning, requirements, and eventual making of such an place! Especially since this will be a standalone room.
We are intending to cover the build from start to finish 👍
Great video guys
Thanks so much!
Great video guys thank you so much heating the room is best thank you guys xxxx
Very informative as well as useful video dear Dave and Sweet Camera Lady, and I do agree with judgementhammer5254 😂😊👍! Have a wonderful new week all! 👋🇸🇪♥️💐🌞🕷👍
another good educational video PROFF to help the hobby. some great work from the beastie room point of view with your vast knowlage in keeping animals. good capture of footage CAMERA LADY. take care guys and many thanks
Glad you enjoyed it👍
I’ve cooked a few T’s experimenting w heating and temps daylight humidity seasonal changes. Science has not done enough research in these areas and species locations around the world. Hopefully some day years long research will be published on specific species involving thermoregulation seasonal changes locations etc. I appreciate everything you do in this awesome hobby to better teach and understand Tarantulas . Thank you for always sharing. You are the best! 😊
Thank you 🙏 ❤️
Good information. I was thinking about how to heat sections of my room. I love that you give cheaper options. I'm going to look for the cables! Thanks Dave
You are so welcome!🙏
Superb video both of you 👏 I remember being new to hobby many years ago and so many different videos and options and opinions from others and this became very confusing 👍I now heat the room like you guys do as my collection is large
Thank you so much 🙂
Very useful and thank You both for the vid!
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Already thinking againg to have a tenant for my little terarium 🤔🤦😂
Very useful, cheers
Glad it helped
I have a deep bookcase with a thermal roller blind on it. Each shelf has a heat mat at the back and it heats each shelf
I’ve been a fan of using rheostat instead of the thermostats with the probe. Since I’m not really trusting the probe anyway I just adjust my rheostat to match the temp that I’m looking to see in my separate thermometer. Works like a charm
Brilliant Dave, that was informative and very enjoyable, and very useful Dave it's an important subject to cover aswell, anyway Dave that's another super job by yourself and camera 📷 lady Dave.
Glad it was helpful!
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Really useful video. All the time with cold temperatures I ask myself what's the best way to heat. I learn a lot with your videos. Love them. Sorry for my english,. BR Silke from Germany Berlin
Your English is perfect my friend ❤️👍
Great video guys I really enjoy the informative videos 😊👍🏻
Thanks so much!
With the laser measurement be careful with the emissivity of the surface material, it must match the value programmed in the laser thermometer if not the reading might not be ok.
Love your videos, greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹
If I had a room dedicated to my Ts I'd definitely do it the same as you guys!
I personally only have around 30 and on a nice wooden custom built shelving rack. I heat mine with lights on a heating dimmer so the heating comes from above like in nature. They all seem to come out and bask and then go hide when they need to be cooler.
It all depends on the set up I suppose.
Excellent video guys very informative,,, best regards to you both.....
Thank you! 👍
Thanks Dave always appreciate and love your videos
5:26... Tip for u guys (not spiders)^^ in regaurds of saving on heating, instead of turning it completely off, set ur thermostat at a low temp (I do mine at about 18°C) when I'm gone. This way, ur tilt doesn't use so much energy to bring the temps up, and u don't spend much to keep the temps so low, it saves in the long run.
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Great video. Great idea about the heated box.
Well done!
Hello great video information Dave
Thanks 👍
Ello Dave!!!! Good day sir can't wait to watch the vid love everything u put out and I swear by ur keeping and as a first time keeper I'm super glad I found ur page before learning bad keeping skills
Thanks 👍
Great video!!
1 thing I took for have reptiles for 25 yrs is use a thermostat for any flexwatt heat tape or any type of matts
I use a 25w led heat lamp for 2 enclosures so it only heats a corner in each enclosure. I measured the temps in each corner and it never goes above 30 ° C. My spiders seem to love it and i have no issues with drying the enclosure out or overheating.
Great video. I have been looking at getting into the hobby. You are my go to for information as i know you are not endorsed by anyone and its purely your personal opinion & experience.
Awesome! Thank you!
Great video dave ❤❤❤
Thank you 😁
Hello Dave, Great video again!!
I would like to share some experiences I had, maybe it can be of help for some of your viewers.
As you know, I made a replica of your incubator, together with the same pulsethermostat.
I had some heatmats stored, that were not in use, but they had a dimmer on the powerline to regulate the heat (Reptimat), so, thought to use these, to prevent me buying new ones, setting the dimmer to max.
This does NOT work in combination with a pulsethermostat!!, (although it worked with a Exo terra thermostat)we can only use a heatmat or cable, without a dimmer on the powerline, it doesn't matter if you set the dimmer to max, it simply does not work. (only option would be to remove the dimmer, and reconnect and insulate the wiring).
Regarding the incubator, I mounted the heatmat against the back, like you did, but as you know, I found out that its better to leave both slidingdoors open with a 1 cm gap, for better ventilation. this, especially since I kept avicularia slings inside the incubator.
I found out the hard way, losing a few, but since I left a gap on both sides for better ventilation, every spider/sling does very well, not only the avic's.
I mounted my heatingcable on a black painted wooden long board, and used staples to keep the heatcable in place, offcourse its very very important to allign the stapler correct to prevent the staple penetrating the cable.
I found out that the adhesive on the aluminiumtape in time didn't hold the cable in placein time. I mounted the long wooden black board against the wall just above the shelf, like you explained in your video, enabling me to slide the enclosure to and from the heatcable.
When you use an exo terra enclosure, be sure to REMOVE the styrene background, because it prevents the heat entering the enclosure.
A very important note about heatlamps/ external light is, when you use an exo terra, it melts the plastic frame that holds the steel wired mesh!!! You don't want to know how many second hand enclosures are offered with a misformed plastic frame on top, people just not realising what can happen obviously.and they were all using an original exo terra lamphood.
Best regards, Rob
TY Dave!
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Verry useful
Thanks for the vid, I’m definitely rethinking how I’m setting mine up now. Any chance you could do something on when things go wrong and how to handle it? I’ve always wondered what I’d do if any of mine darted up my arm during a rehouse for example. Be great to get some info on handling situations like that. I’ve been keeping for about a year now, nothing has happened but it would be good to know what to do in the event it did.
We can try and sort something 👍
Loved the video Dave this was really helpful in sorting way for me to heat some of my Ts as well as inverts! I wanted to ask i have some shelving I want to put my tarantulas in, could I use the heat cable and wrap it on the underside of one shelf so the heat comes from above and warms the area below it if that makes sense?
Ive not tried it from above but I would think it could work so long as the heat doesn't disperse too quickly ?
The pulse is what we use for our ball python. My Ts are in my bedroom & I'm using no heating just now. I woke up at 7am & temp in my room was 24⁰C! It's only going to get warmer during the day. Im Scottish, I'm not built for this heat lol
A lot of our ball pythons equipment is branded. But we got him (hes a 4yr old blue eyed leucistic), enclosure & everything needed for him, heat, light substrate, hides, spare bulbs, timers, extra heat mats & so much more all for £150! All we had to do was bring him home & plug stuff in! Old owner was heading to uni & didn't think she'd have time for him anymore. He's an absolute sweetheart.
I’ve used red heat lamps clamped on shelving but kept the light perpendicular to all the shelves as a “blanket” of heated light, it seems to do okay, but isn’t really efficient, hoping to move into a new place where we can have a dedicated room for our spiders 🤞
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I have a few enclosures with low watt heat mats with only a good thermometer inside. I’ve checked the thermometer every day for years now and It never ever gets more than one degree or two above the current room temp. Maybe a waste with such low output but I guess the heat mat could fail and give too much heat? I have too many enclosures to have as many thermostats.
Very helpful! I’ve been trying to decide how best to keep my juvies warm after they “graduate” out of the sling nursery box. (Used a fish tank turned on its side and built an insulated wooden box around it, with sliding plexiglass doors on the front.) They’ll be going onto a shelf (much like yours) eventually, so this was very useful! Thank you.
You mentioned humidity near the beginning. My question is: How do we safely lower humidity?
I live in Pennsylvania and near a creek. The humidity here is often high. 80-90% or more outside (94% right now), and around 70%+ indoors; most of the year.
I’d love to keep drier species like GBB/desert species, but the humidity 3/4 of the year worries me. 😅
They should be fine just keep your substrate dry 🙏
@@daveslittlebeasties Ok. Thank you so much!
Thank you for a very informative video, I live in Brecon in Wales which means it is very very cold here the temperatures can drop quickly so a heat mat is essential! I could do with a heat mat under my bum to keep me warm I feel the cold very easily although I am in the stages of a different time in my life so I am bloody hot all the time!
I am looking forward to the opening of the new spider house, I am sure Camera lady will be trying to find you and you have hidden yourself away in your room, are you going to film it in stages or are you just going to show us once it is complete? How long will it take to build it?
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Im hoping to film as we build from start to Finnish ❤️👍
Ive noticed a lot of my arboreal tarantulas appreciate the heat. esp the avics
I have an oil heater that on low and power just half way between low and medium I get 79-80 degrees. But humidity in room drops, but my enclosures for my humidity loving P. Victor1, Irminia, Het, Mac, geniculata are at 70, room drops to 55%, I guess that works, I have two dryer species a P. Hamori, GBB, Obt, that I just have water dish for , I spray the others like every 3-4 days
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Hi Dave and Camera lady.
Love your videos dave even after 15yrs in the hobbie I still find myself learning new things. My question is when it comes to tarantulas with some serious age is it worth breaking down the enclosure for a new one. My P.rufilata is about 13yrs old and I want to do a rehouse but I also feel it's been working all these years. Should I change it or leave it the way it is?
If it’s working I would leave the main structure maybe change any easy to get at substrate and just freshen up 🙏
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Hi Dave. If I just have the one small arboreal enclosure would you still use a small incubator for that. I am getting a T Seladonia shortly so want to make sure it is warm enough. It’ll be kept in the sling pot initially but I will be rehousing it in time…hopefully.
Yes I would still use a warm enclosure to put to your slings in 👍
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Dave and the lovely camera woman, can I ask, do you keep your room at 80, day and night.
I have a walk in cupboard that I turned into my spider room, it's only 4ft wide by 8ft long, I also have an oil filled radiator that I keep at 80 dg day and night, but I'm wondering if it should be a wee bit cooler at night...cheers and love from Inverness 🏴
Yes mine is a constant temp 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties thanks for that...stay cool.
If you have one long heat mat plugged into a thermostat, for several enclosures, you would only have one probe. Would it be enough to keep tabs on one enclosure?
Yes it would be fine 👍
Hey Dave, during the summer, my room hovers in the high 70's to low 80's. And in the winter, I use a space heater to provide supplemental heating. It probably keeps the room in the low 70's (may occasionally dipping into the high 60's). I guess what worries me is I really don't provide my spiders a gradient at all. They are all exposed to the same room temperature. There is a slight difference between the high and low shelves but it isn't much (maybe a degree or so). Do you think I should make any changes to my heating systems to give my spiders more of a gradient?
I wouldn’t worry too much if they are doing well , a degree or two is often enough it’s only when breeding it can be more critical 🙏
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If you have over 80 tarantula cages, how do you link 10-12 heat mats together as well as to a thermostat?
I use the cable for large areas
@@daveslittlebeastiesthat’s understandable, but how do you connect multiple long heat cables to a thermostat and seeing you use a room heater, is it also necessary to run the cables as well?
You should get camera lady a mic as well
I recently was at a petco and they had a “heated rock” I didn’t pay too much attention to it as I passed by. But from what I remember was that it was a fake decorative rock that could be powered to heat itself up. It’s definitely for reptiles but what’s your opinion on something like that? Obviously in a situation like you or I and having many tarantulas it wouldn’t be viable at all. But I’m curious to see what a tarantula would do with something like that.
After what Dave has just told us, I don't think I would be buying one. Good question though, I expect many would like to know Dave's opinion on that rock 🤔
@@elainebines6803 right but referring back to him saying they regulate themselves I can’t see how it would be harmful to them as long as you can regulate how hot the rock can get. I just wanted to see his thoughts like you said
Those heated rocks are suitable for absolutely nothing. They have been a scam for decades. They exist only to overheat and kill your pet. Avoid at all costs.
I personally do not like the heated rocks and have seen many snakes damaged by them I think they are terrible and what not use them for anything 👍
Heat rocks are so dangerous even for reptiles :(
What if your room is always around 24-28 on temp without any added heating would you have to have the needs of added heat? ive checked around my room for colder spots what is really only near my window as ive always got it open a little to help let fresh air into the room and to help take some of the warmer air out, been keeping spiders now around a year and half from slings to SA with this kind of setup and touch wood its been fine, but what would your thoughts be about this dave
If your room is maintaining its temps then that’s all it needs to do , only needing heat should it get cooler 👍
So i have a glass terrarium 30*30*40 cm, if i use a pulse thermostat can i then stick the matt (7w) directly to the outside glass of the terrarium? Or does it neet something in between still. Thank you so much for your help
Direct is fine 👍
Hi David and carma lady, can I ask if I have my room at 24 .5 an get a heat mat what should I set it too , just to make up the lost heat in winter
Set to the temp your spider requires it’s in its own little world in that enclosure and being on a thermostat it will regulate itself 👍
Dave, the room that my creatures are in gets really cold in the winter, I’m talking as low as 14C. I’ve always put heat mats covering the whole enclosure because if it doesn’t, the spider or whatever invert it is will get too cold. Why would you recommend?
*what would you recommend 😅
They should always have a choice to get away from any heat source 🙏
@@daveslittlebeasties thanks Dave, so if I just cover half the enclosure with a mat, the spider will still be able to regulate its heat well even if the room is chilly? 😀
@@daveslittlebeasties thanks Dave, so if I just cover half the enclosure with a mat, the spider will still be able to regulate its heat well even if the room is chilly? 😀
in india we use a hot water bottle
Hi there, I was told not to use heat mats on plastic containers? Is that not true?
Providing they are on a thermostat they should be fine , remember to only cover one third of the enclosure allowing your spider room to retreat if needed 👍
Is it a bad thing to put spiders on top on vivs that are heated?
Not its fine as long as they dont get too hot
@@daveslittlebeasties ok thank you for responding but at night the heating goes off for the reptiles so I would imagine I would have to implement something during that period?
So is your radiator running all day? Or do you shut it off during the night?
Its on a thermostat, this was answered in the video.
It’s on permanent becouse it’s run through a thermostat 👍