Just a curious question?

I know of keepers raising their spiders in the closest as possible environment as where the spiders originally came from and then there is keepers who just make sure the temp and humidity are on standard

What I want to know is if you breed spiders and you breed the offspring again in SA will the spider be used to our climate and habitat or will it still have a need for his own environment?

And if there is a possibility of the spiders getting used to our conditions what risk is involved for our eco system?

There are numerous keepers that have lost adult spiders after purchase. It is also a known fact that smuggled adults have difficulty adjusting, not only to temperature and humidity changes, but also struggle with cross equatorial changes. (Summer/winter differences.)

Spiderlings bred in captivity in either of the hemispheres do have a better chance to adjust into adulthood than adults would have transported across from North to South and visa versa.

A very good example, and possibly a bit extreme is Megaphobema mesomelas. Adults have a very slim chance of surviving in South Africa if not given very special care. Coming from higher altitudes of Costa Rica, their temperature/humidity requirements are difficult to sustain here, making mortality of adults higher than slings raised in SA.

I am in no position to comment on environmental risks as numerous studies have to completed before this is clear.

So if you have a sling then they have a better chance at surviving our conditions than getting a adult from elsewhere. That is pretty nifty to know since i have been wondering the same thing. I mean we don't have spiders of all different species over here, we get them from across the world.

A friend of mine has told me that it is cruel to keep a T here in sa since they don't originate from here, but yet look at some house pets... People import animals from all over the world but now just because i have a T you saying that is cruel... Tat don't fly with me. If the T can survive here as it is doing in thousands of different homes, then thats all good with me. But if they were dying all over then i would say they don't belong here.

You have a brain dead friend Convict.

The survival issue is also species dependant. Some do better than others when bred in captivity and raised from sling.

Let me understand it in another way. So I do not have to keep humidity at 70-80% precisely if that is the requirement for the species? Same for the temperature.

I think I might have kept my substrate too humid (because of spraying) to try and get humidity up. I can relax a little about it for my slings? Still try to get it right, but not stress about it.

btw, my Brachypelma albopilosum likes to eat my isopods. Makes it hard to keep the cleaners in the tank

LOL Scarab i agree with you there friend! But thanks for the info nonetheless. Quick question, what the hell is "isopods" that you guys are talking about :blink: i am soooo lost right now. To much info to quickly haha.