Tag: spider room

Welcome to the Spider Room! I live in a three-bedroom house and one of the bedrooms, the smallest, is dedicated to the spiders. I purchased some flat-packed shelving this week so I could arrange the room better and make it easier to check on, feed, and water the spiders.

The shelving is galvanised steel framework with hardwood shelves and was very easy to put together. It’s very light, but strong enough to hold over 100kg of weight!

Most of the spiders are housed in acrylic custom-made ventilated housing, with the exception of the very small ones (currently kept in the old sandwich box and the pink-lidded container shown in the second picture, Magenta, who is enormous and lives in the large square Exo Terra terrarium in Picture 3, and Incy Wincy, too large for the acrylic containers and not quite large enough yet for an Exo Terra. Charlotte is also in the smaller old faunarium, but will be moving to a new acrylic home soon.

The room’s radiator is switched off and instead, I heat the area with an electric oil heater on a timer, so I can keep the room warm for the spiders. Each of their homes have water dishes, and some dampened substrate to create the required humidity for each one.

So there we have it – the spiders live in luxury!