http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2008/06/23/hot-weather-will-return-get-ready-to-help-your-pets/ Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2008/06/23/hot-weather-will-return-get-ready-to-help-your-pets/comment-page-1/#comment-1416 Mike "troll" Dame Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:45:33 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/?p=468#comment-1416 temperatures over 95f can also be bad for pet tarantulas who in nature would be deep in their burrows escaping the heat. signs to watch for with them are, hovering over/standing in their water dishes, excessive climbing and scraping/tearing at cage screens with their fangs, staggering or legs curling under/not being able to fully extend legs (very bad sign, spider need to be placed in shallow dish of water to rehydrate). some things that can help are soaking down a portion of their substrate to cause evaporate cooling, moving cages to floor where it is cooler (make sure its an ant free location) and/or misting misting misting allot of misting. as mentioned with birds and fish sunlight on a tank is bad and although i have never heard of it being tried but the frozen water bottle Gary mentions for rabbits may also work for tarantulas.
last year during the big heatwave where temps (indoors) were over 105f for multiple days i ended up loosing a couple of my large tropical species and have since invested in a small AC for the room they are in

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