If any one could tell me, from what size do I need to supply ts with water gel from?

RTB8 wrote: If any one could tell me, from what size do I need to supply ts with water gel from?

Do not use water gel with your tarantulas. A few of them learn to use it, but many don't. It only works a lot of the time, not always. And, it costs money. So do the dead tarantulas.

A simple water dish with a rock in it works 98% of the time.

And, why the rock? Placing a rock in the water dish that's large enough to protrude above the water, but small enough to allow the tarantula to drink around the edges prevents crickets (among God's dumber creations!) from drowning quite so easily. Drowned crickets foul the water, posing a potential threat to your tarantula, and they waste your hard earned money.

And why only 98%? Because nothing in biology is 100%. Because sooner or later some tarantula is going to persistently fill its water dish with substrate and die of thirst. Because I've got to cover my behind just a little! :laugh:

@ Stanley: Brilliant answer!! As u said no water gel and a rock in the water bowl!

Water gel is the :evil: SHOULD NOT be used... u can use it for roaches are crickets thou... not your T

spinnerkop wrote: Water gel is the :evil: SHOULD NOT be used... u can use it for roaches are crickets thou... not your T

I wouldn't even go as far as giving it to my crickets or roaches. It makes everything miff and mouldy and the roaches tend to poop in the gel bowls :sick: :sick: :sick: Not to mention it's about as natural as Pamela Anderson's chest area.

I hydrate with apple slices - Basically my main food source with the occasional handful of cat food. I've had my colony for nearly 3 years now, and it's bigger than ever.