Tarantula Paludarium

[Cmergy]

I was thinking about getting a greebottle blue tarantula and setting up some sort of paludarium with it, i know spiders are kinda taboo for them but i think it can be pretty cool if done right. I was thinking about a simple grassland with a stream running through and just a few guppies or some other sort of fish.

Any advice would be great, thanks!

[x5tr41ghtj4ck3t]

I would assume the reason spiders are taboo is because they can drown, and if not could probably eat your fish. Personally, I am not a tarantula person, and would invest (work, not money... and by work, I mean going out and hunting) in a water spider of some sort (dolomedes tenebrosus is my favorite) so that it doesn't drown. And what you could do is either scratch the guppies, or breed them as food for the spider (though THAT might be considered animal cruelty to some people, so I am neither enforcing it in your case, nor discouraging it. It's all about perspective.).

[nirotorin]

I'd imagine the stream might raise the humidity too high for a greenbottle blue tarantula. Also the depth of water you would need to support guppies would be deep enough to drown even a large spider. Maybe try for a dryer nicely planted desert type vivarium with a dry creek bed feature.

[Apophysis]

Put some H. gigas in it

they don't drown , they swim underneath the water. and u can keep em communal. BUT they make burrows, and will probably destroy some plants etc

or go for some Poecilotheria species , most can be kept communal aswell , i'm planning on making a palu to put my 9 P. regalis females in.