Try what Antscanada did with the Dracula ants and use Red Plastic Film to filter out all the bright light and make it seem dark to her with you still being able to see!

It's interesting, as you said you were going to cover the sides so she would be comfortable in darkness, but it seems like maybe if she wanted that she would have been digging away from the lights and more central/away from the edge of the glass, no?

I have a few shallow diggers and they go 10 inches to 2 feet. My deep diggers 3 feet to 7 feet. My deepest tank is 8 feet and 3 feet wide.

Use a CPL filter on your lens to get rid of reflections...

Water?

crazy, right? I was also one of the first subscribers back then ;)

thanks bro!

Same

I subbed in late 2017 and remember the couch videos and enclosure builds in the kitchen

@@pythonpatrolexotics yea I remember the couch set~up. Kinda miss the old days ~ yknow like back to basic. But channels great, I love it 💋

One of my favorite pets to have. So beautiful and so easy to maintain. I definitely recommend ordering a sling this spring/summer when it warms back up for you! 😸👍👍

Just pull the trigger and get one. Just make sure it is a beginner friendly species.

Me too dude. Personally I'm more of a scorpion guy but yeah my family are very arachnophobic 😭

I was fortunate enough that my family didn’t really care about having spiders in the house, however you could try convincing them to let you have a sling and because they’re so tiny they might not care. Or just get a sling and don’t tell them till it gets large enough that they notice it and then you can tell them you’ve already had it for 2years or so and that they never knew in the first place

My mom is deathly afraid of tarantulas so all I can do is watch videos on them, I can't actually have one as a pet.

Bruh, you gotta use some punctuation.

They can actually dig significantly deeper than that. I might be wrong, but I recall reading somewhere that some African species were found to have dug burrows that were about 2 meters deep.

@@ahmetkerem4769 damn that’s crazy they are more capable than I thought

I'm a few months late, but that's what I was going to suggest 😁

She dug into spots where there wasn’t light, and decided to stay in it. The hard side of the glass is free tunnel support and thus stayed next to that to conserve energy.

I suggested magnetic tape too. I would suggest Velcro but I think it would work too well? Idk my head has it being a bit of a fuss to remove each time as the Velcro clings to itself for dear life. You would know, having experience, if that's true or if I'm just dumb XD

I was thinking the same thing! It looked like it could collapse quite easily, even with webbing.

Yes...I was wondering also about the substrate being too dry and collapsing ... and the water dish.

Here in Australia we have Tarantulas that burrow metres deep in order to reach appropriate temperature and moisture levels. Ts that do this are mostly ones found in arid areas, however care in captivity is essentially the same across all Aussie Ts as they are aiming for the same temp/humidity, they just have different methods to reach it. So yeah it would need moisture, and the issue with using peat/coir is that it does dry out quickly and doesn’t hold structurally sound burrows, that’s why you can properly keep trapdoors on peat.

When you mist the substrate, the moisture falls down through the substrate. The one I used is not fully dry and it currently got moisture. She did secure the tunnels with webbing though, so even a fully dry substrate shouldn't collapse!

@@TheDarkDen awesome! Thanks for the clarification xx

More cowbells!!!

Webbing is a big part of it