@@fedeph665 sorry that you didn't catch my sarcasm. We live in a more divisive, racist society in today's America. I was taking a shot at that. I apologize again for the sarcasm. However, although geography is taught in our schools some have forgotten and/or failed those classes. Peace and love!
Have you ever thought of 3d printing the background part of the enclosure? You can design the background textures for it how you want, save on plexiglass, and eliminate foam use.
We have mosquito hawks in the USA not sure what their scientific name is but that's what I've known them as. They look like prehistoric mosquitoes. They are beneficial and please don't squash them :)
Leather jacket is another name for them -edit, nevermind, a quick google search informed me that leather jacket is the larvae form of the crane fly, *neat* !
Thank you, and Exotics Lair for helping me with arachnophobia. I no longer have a fear of spider's/tarantulas from both your Guy's channel's. (I'm Extremely Grateful) 🙇
A. seemanni was my first tarantula!!! I love mine so much!! They hangout in their burrow a lot, but when they come out I treasure it because it's so beautiful
Changing from the styrofoam back decoration in the enclosure is a good idea. Not only does it prevent the shredded styrofoam issue, it gives the T more space. Another possibility: maybe use a photo of the natural home environment of the T instead of a black sheet? Anyway, congrats on adding this beautiful spider to "our" collection and thanks for the stream.
If you use rubbing alcohol to install the background if you have any bubbles that appeared when you installed it they'll evaporate over time and if you start with a a couple extra centimeters on the edge you can always trim it when you're done
One of my top 5 favourite New Worlds. Big fan of this species, both for it's looks and it's stardom. Pretty sure it was the species used in first Home Alone movie as Buzz's tarantula, its orange spinnerets and general dusty brown coloured ventral are distinctly visible in several shots.
I've been thinking for awhile now, pondering why you haven't got any Venus flytraps in the Den. should be humid enough and got great lights for them as well. Ponder the idea?
I have a Costa Rican Zebra like this one too. I can tell you she is really weird in her behavior. She is totally harmless, but 2-3 hours a night she will climb all over her enclosure walls and litteraly let herself fall on her back from the top of the wall, like 30 times every night. She is very bolty, but in a weird way. One minute I touch her and nothing, she stays still and moves a bit very slowly, but the next minute boom I touch her and she bolts at 300 mph giving me a heart attack. Very skiddish and shy, but beautiful and sweet.
Not sure if someone mentioned this earlier but I have some advice coming for Miniature crafting. Instead of using Styrofoam with the big bubbly pieces you could always go for Isolation foam instead. This is a lot more dense and you can cut and rip it to look like rock. Chip some of the sides and roll it with a ball of aluminum foil to give it some texture. Then a nice few coats and it will look amazing, guaranteed!
Hmm, I think a planted background makes more sense. Anything else would destroy the dynamic look an would be weird, an the tarantula doesn't REAAALLY care.. I mean they don't see that good at all..
@@esist2wild yeah that could work. The backgrounds are certainly not for the spiders. It is more for the keepers pleasure. I have a few of the old Exo Terra Herbospheres and they have the photographic backgrounds and they look pretty sweet when you try to blend it with the substrate inside the enclosure. If done correctly it would work well. Either that or the corkbark sheets you can get and cut them to size and stick them to the backgrounds. But they are more expensive. Especially with so many enclosures to put them in.
Those little moth looking things are actually a type of fly. It’s a Drain Fly and they are fuzzy like that for water resistance. I live in Greece and they get in my apartment all the time. Maybe I should get a fly squasher!
In the aquairium hobby we would paint the back glass instead of using a film that will bubble. Flat black canned spray paint looks much better than shiny black plastic film. Paint can be removed much easier than taped backgrounds as well.
If you want something really good for taking out stray bugs, get a bug-a-salt, they’re great. I have one, and it works really well. It’s kind of like a shotgun that uses salt instead of shells.
While I am anxious to see the progress on the new (fourth?) Dark Den, a new denizen and a future feeding video make the wait worth while. Thanks, Petco!
Suggestion for the background: apply the tape on the inside of the glass. That will prevent the glass from reflecting light. You could leave out a few centimeters at the bottom of the enclosure to simplify the installation, as it won’t be visible when the substrate is in place. :-)
Maybe the pink or blue foam would make better backgrounds as it is not made from little balls. You could also spray paint the inside, which would get rid of the glare. In The USA Krylon Fusion is safe when dry. Cheers, Chris
To apply that wrap, use a drop of dial soap in like 500ml of water in a mister, clean the glass, then spray with the soap/water mix, after you cut the wrap about 2.5cm larger than you nee then you peel the wrap and spray that too... when adhesive side is wet with the soap/water, apply it to the wet glass... This gives you time to move it/line it up properly. Use felt coated squeegee, or at least a card inside a thin microfiber to adhere from center to edges to remove all air, then cut the sides with a razor. It will be perfect, and the soap/water helps it adhere with no bubbles.
I really enjoy your videos and look forward to more and maybe get a Tarantula myself But I wanna be able to take care of them as well as you do and know what I'm getting and you do very well On educate about the enclosures and how they need to be you are the best thank you for your time
From backgrounds to blackgrounds XD As tarantulas are breaking those backgrounds,i think some big plants or cork barks(Also stones)at the back should do the trick
so nice that you got an A. seemanni! i got a sling in march and shes really nervous and bolty! 😅 i hope that my little one will be as pretty as yours in a few years! great video as always! i love your content! greetings from austria!
Ive been around since the apartment dark den and just realizing how much you have achieved in that amount of time make me happy. I'm from Ohio and ive always wanted to keep tarantulas and snakes. But you and chandler fill that void for me
I live closer to Kentucky and around here I can barely find places that will let me rent with dogs or cats. If I bring a big as spider im just asking for an eviction
It's a pain when they chew on the background but I personally like the look of having them in an enclosure. When they do chew on the background, I take some sphagnum moss and hot glue it to that spot so it looks natural and fills in that hole. I've done a few things to deter my tarantulas from chewing on the background. I made the background thinner so they hit the back glass and tend to stop when they realize there's no place to dig or escape and I started putting the top of the background a little higher up so they don't think there's a hole there to dig in the corner. Doesn't work 100% but it helps.
Beautiful tarantula! About the backgrounds; if you have a little more time to spare for making them and dont already do that, try covering them with two or three layers of flexible tile glue (i am not sure about the translation in german it is "flexibler Fliesenkleber") and letting that dry out before covering them with the substrate. It makes the background harder and less destructable. I always do this for my tarantula and snake enclosures to make them more durable😊
I think the film he used is ok. Because it will just sit indoors and won't be move everynow and then. But yea, whaf you said is definitely more durable.
Of course you can just put on a film if you do not want to spend that time. But in my opinion it is so much nicer to have an actual background and not just a film especially for bigger and/or arboreal enclosures 😊 Oh and what i just remembered; an easy option would be to take a big piece of thin bark, soak it in water and then to press it so it gets completely flat. Cut it till it fits the terrarium and glue it on - easy background for a natural look (more or less)😊
Love your enthusiasm, have watched you for years and can honestly say it's been amazing seeing your love and enthusiasm for all of your animal's. If I was the be reincarnated as a T I would honestly hope to be lucky enough to have a keeper like you.
You can also make the Background without Styrofoam! You can apply the Silicone directly on the Glass and then the Substrate, so the Tarantula can't pull it away 🙂 or you use Cement and then substrate... both works awesome and there is nothing to pull 😉
Love seemannis, I've had Costa Rican B&Ws for nearly 20 years and a Guatemalan blue for 5 odd years, (just regional colour differences). There's supposed to be a Nicaraguan form which is more brown with cream stripes but I haven't seen one.
I guessed A. seemanni at 0:40 😄. My first tarantula was an A. seemanni and she is named Skeletor 😍❤️. Petko, if she doesnt enjoy her hide and seem skittish you can try to just add more substrate and remove the corkbark. A.seemanni are usually burrowers in the wild. My girl really calmed down after that and felt much more secure when she got to burrow. It was like night and day with her mood
They should make a pixar movie about how all the Ts come out and party when he leaves. And the old worlds are the bad guys.
"The Secret Life of Ts"
Would be cool but wouldn't happen🙃
I'd watch it...
I don’t like the title but I love the idea. Kinda like the pets movie. But for T lovers.
tarantula story(toy story)
basically the poecis are the bad guys
That little "sehr gut" caught me off guard lmaooooo
Ja mich auch 🤣😂🤣
Läuft 😝😂
Omg same haha😂
Nicht nur dich
mich auch haha gut das ich nicht alleine bin xD
Wow this tarantula is probably one of the most calm tarantulas I’ve seen in this channel 😂
*On this channel *
What a beautiful tarantula! This tarantula isn't found in the US, however. They're found from Mexico to Costa Rica
He mentioned “some” of the genus is from the US. Aka calcodes and hentzi
Thats litterly America lol Central America is America too, you cant say USA is America.... America is continent not a country..
@@veljkoradovanovic1130 but in the current USA it is 'Murica, which if you didn't know is its own continent. Here we speak American, just saying.
@@DisturbedInOhio U speak english, America as a continent has lots of languages. I can see in your country they don't teach students about geography.
@@fedeph665 sorry that you didn't catch my sarcasm. We live in a more divisive, racist society in today's America. I was taking a shot at that. I apologize again for the sarcasm. However, although geography is taught in our schools some have forgotten and/or failed those classes. Peace and love!
I’m a fairly new viewer but I find your accent and voice very soothing and have to watch at least one video a day to feel like my day is complete 😂😅
His voice and passion is what keeps me coming back for sure.
Oh wow! My jaw dropped when you opened the container. It's beautiful!
*has a big cork bark and enclosure*
Petko: so spacious oh my god
🤣😂
Have you ever thought of 3d printing the background part of the enclosure? You can design the background textures for it how you want, save on plexiglass, and eliminate foam use.
Hmmmm, good idea although it would take ages to print
The big mosquitos you were talking about are called Mosquito Hawks and they eat mosquitos
They can't eat mosquitos...look it up..its impossible with no mouthparts to eat.
You can buy bark tiles that come in the common enclosure sizes. And you can always give them a trim if they are slightly too big.
The large mosquito is likely a crane fly. Awesome vid as usual!
We have mosquito hawks in the USA not sure what their scientific name is but that's what I've known them as. They look like prehistoric mosquitoes. They are beneficial and please don't squash them :)
Don’t kill them! Haha we call them mosquito eaters! They’re amazing to have around. Well in my opinion haha
I immediately assumed it was a type of cranefly
Dah G Man I think they’re the same thing it’s just what I call them haha :p
Leather jacket is another name for them
-edit, nevermind, a quick google search informed me that leather jacket is the larvae form of the crane fly, *neat* !
DD: **explains how flies are annoying while smacking the swatter**
The fly at 3:09 : *BUZZ~~~*
Almost looks like she's wearing a Halloween skeleton costume. She's stunning.
What a cheeky spider she is The way she moves her legs is so funny
Thank you, and Exotics Lair for helping me with arachnophobia.
I no longer have a fear of spider's/tarantulas from both your Guy's channel's.
(I'm Extremely Grateful)
🙇
A. seemanni was my first tarantula!!! I love mine so much!! They hangout in their burrow a lot, but when they come out I treasure it because it's so beautiful
7:58 "miss"
8:04 bug: "I'm leaving, bye"
Thank you for the video, man. Your work does not go unnoticed. I appreciate you.
I love this channel and community. Thank you Petko
I liked how the Tarantula did a small jump into its enclosure. It kinda reminds me of a dog hopping on a couch
Sehr gut! Sehr sehr gut!
Love this. You doing a great job Petko :)
I love her little orange-y spinners. So cute
Print out a type of Matte Painting, and put it behind the Glas at the back. Like the back of a aquarium.
Changing from the styrofoam back decoration in the enclosure is a good idea. Not only does it prevent the shredded styrofoam issue, it gives the T more space. Another possibility: maybe use a photo of the natural home environment of the T instead of a black sheet?
Anyway, congrats on adding this beautiful spider to "our" collection and thanks for the stream.
I keep my a seemanni semi fossorial hahah. It's literally a jar full of dirt and tunnels and I absolutely adore it 🥰
If you use rubbing alcohol to install the background if you have any bubbles that appeared when you installed it they'll evaporate over time and if you start with a a couple extra centimeters on the edge you can always trim it when you're done
I just got this species as my first tarantula a few days ago. So excited to be in the hobby finally.
Contact paper or Vinyl is what the new background is called here in the US anyway.
More power on your channel watching from Philippines god bless
What a stunning tarantula!
This is my first tarantula! Great to see you have one, once I saw the thumbnail I knew it was a a. Seemanni
I like it better..looks ok but really opens up the interior for more space.
One of my top 5 favourite New Worlds.
Big fan of this species, both for it's looks and it's stardom.
Pretty sure it was the species used in first Home Alone movie as Buzz's tarantula, its orange spinnerets and general dusty brown coloured ventral are distinctly visible in several shots.
Fabolous tarantula!!! Love your channel!
For flies you gotta aim just behind them with the swatter as they jump/ launch backwards into the air - T. Australian.
I've been thinking for awhile now, pondering why you haven't got any Venus flytraps in the Den. should be humid enough and got great lights for them as well. Ponder the idea?
it’s better than a fly swat then at least something would be ingesting them and they’d be dying for a reason
He could make a whole terrarium with carnivorous plants.
Flytraps, pitcher plants, etc.
Petko.
This.
Many times this.
Most carnivores plants need full sun all day they wouldn't do good inside.
You could cut the plastic a little bigger and trim it to the glass with a sharp knife after sticking it on the enclosure. Another great video.
I like the black. It would look good on the enclosures with the styrofoam since we always see the backs of them and can see the glue
Ah, the Aphonopelma seemanni, the Costa Rican zebra tarantula, also known as the striped-knee tarantula. Such a beauty!!!
I have a Costa Rican Zebra like this one too. I can tell you she is really weird in her behavior. She is totally harmless, but 2-3 hours a night she will climb all over her enclosure walls and litteraly let herself fall on her back from the top of the wall, like 30 times every night. She is very bolty, but in a weird way. One minute I touch her and nothing, she stays still and moves a bit very slowly, but the next minute boom I touch her and she bolts at 300 mph giving me a heart attack. Very skiddish and shy, but beautiful and sweet.
Very nice new tarantula! Congrat 👍😉
When you said more space for activities I immediately thought step brothers but with spiders. This movie needs to be animated.
Not sure if someone mentioned this earlier but I have some advice coming for Miniature crafting. Instead of using Styrofoam with the big bubbly pieces you could always go for Isolation foam instead. This is a lot more dense and you can cut and rip it to look like rock. Chip some of the sides and roll it with a ball of aluminum foil to give it some texture. Then a nice few coats and it will look amazing, guaranteed!
Maybe it would be a good idea to have photographic backgrounds that would suit their natural environment.
Hmm, I think a planted background makes more sense. Anything else would destroy the dynamic look an would be weird, an the tarantula doesn't REAAALLY care.. I mean they don't see that good at all..
@@esist2wild yeah that could work. The backgrounds are certainly not for the spiders. It is more for the keepers pleasure. I have a few of the old Exo Terra Herbospheres and they have the photographic backgrounds and they look pretty sweet when you try to blend it with the substrate inside the enclosure. If done correctly it would work well. Either that or the corkbark sheets you can get and cut them to size and stick them to the backgrounds. But they are more expensive. Especially with so many enclosures to put them in.
I don't like the look on those tbh
@@TheDarkDen the photo backgrounds? Or the cork bark sheets?
@@TheDarkDen Try putting a mirror on the back
The knees, or whatever they're called on a spider, on that tarantula look like sunflower seed shells
Those little moth looking things are actually a type of fly. It’s a Drain Fly and they are fuzzy like that for water resistance. I live in Greece and they get in my apartment all the time. Maybe I should get a fly squasher!
In the aquairium hobby we would paint the back glass instead of using a film that will bubble. Flat black canned spray paint looks much better than shiny black plastic film. Paint can be removed much easier than taped backgrounds as well.
Aphonopelma seemanni was my first tarantula i bought. Love this girl
Quite surprised to saw he didn't use his might "sand" to add texture to the enclosure ike he always does.
Cork plates with a "natural" surface make pretty nice backgrounds for terrariums. That's what I'm using too.
That “big” mosquito is actually a “Mosquito Eater” a good thing! It actually kills and eats lots of mosquitoes!
Such a beautiful spider 🌱
If you want something really good for taking out stray bugs, get a bug-a-salt, they’re great. I have one, and it works really well. It’s kind of like a shotgun that uses salt instead of shells.
Just spray paint the back side of the glass with black spray paint it looks good and dosent get messed up from your pets/spider
Im buying my first T tomorrow cant wait!
Congrats 👏
Woo-hoo! Fantastic!
Make sure you clear things out and make room for more... I had to 😀
First T is always exciting, which species did you decide on?
@@MasterOfSlugs Grammostola pulchripes
I always print out a HD picture from a natural habitat and stick it to the back.
Black gloss spray paint on the back glass, tape the edges to keep it clean
Petko: Aphonopelma are usually handlable
All of my Aphonopelma: 🤬😈☠
Imagine puttng mirrors on the back of the enclosures!!!
That's a pretty tarantula. Should call her Skelly since the coloring on her legs look like bones kind of like a skeleton
Google this one: ephebopus murinus
Beautiful
While I am anxious to see the progress on the new (fourth?) Dark Den, a new denizen and a future feeding video make the wait worth while. Thanks, Petco!
That throw was fantastic!
With the back film, you over size it then run a knife over the edge after to get a flush finish
Imagine a room with 100s of spiders but still having a fly problem 😂. Love the vids man. Keep it up
Suggestion for the background: apply the tape on the inside of the glass. That will prevent the glass from reflecting light. You could leave out a few centimeters at the bottom of the enclosure to simplify the installation, as it won’t be visible when the substrate is in place. :-)
A. seemani was one of the 1st adult tarantulas i bought, and she is still a favorite! So beautiful! The legs almost remind me of a skeleton leg t
One thing I don't miss about my time in Croatia is the little flies and mosquitos
That last video gave is all some massive amounts of anxiety lol glad you found the little dude.
Maybe the pink or blue foam would make better backgrounds as it is not made from little balls. You could also spray paint the inside, which would get rid of the glare. In The USA Krylon Fusion is safe when dry.
Cheers,
Chris
I think you should do the sides with that sheeting as well just leaving the top and front clear.
Beautiful tarantula bud!
To apply that wrap, use a drop of dial soap in like 500ml of water in a mister, clean the glass, then spray with the soap/water mix, after you cut the wrap about 2.5cm larger than you nee then you peel the wrap and spray that too... when adhesive side is wet with the soap/water, apply it to the wet glass... This gives you time to move it/line it up properly. Use felt coated squeegee, or at least a card inside a thin microfiber to adhere from center to edges to remove all air, then cut the sides with a razor. It will be perfect, and the soap/water helps it adhere with no bubbles.
I really enjoy your videos and look forward to more and maybe get a Tarantula myself But I wanna be able to take care of them as well as you do and know what I'm getting and you do very well On educate about the enclosures and how they need to be you are the best thank you for your time
From backgrounds to blackgrounds XD
As tarantulas are breaking those backgrounds,i think some big plants or cork barks(Also stones)at the back should do the trick
so nice that you got an A. seemanni! i got a sling in march and shes really nervous and bolty! 😅
i hope that my little one will be as pretty as yours in a few years!
great video as always! i love your content!
greetings from austria!
My A. Seemmani is definitely one of my biggest bolting spiders. That's just how they roll.
Ive been around since the apartment dark den and just realizing how much you have achieved in that amount of time make me happy.
I'm from Ohio and ive always wanted to keep tarantulas and snakes.
But you and chandler fill that void for me
I’m in ohio too! You should keep them. Tarantulas are not too hard to keep.
I live closer to Kentucky and around here I can barely find places that will let me rent with dogs or cats.
If I bring a big as spider im just asking for an eviction
Ryan Planck I have 5 in an apartment. I just don’t tell them lol.
I mean they dont need much space.
So a closet could easily conceal them
"GET ON WITH IT!"
I think it's a cool thing to add to your merch store, but of course you must brand them to say dark den
10:06
"Sehr gut"
Wasnt really expecting this one😄
Does Petko actually speak german?😊
I have one and she is amazing, she made a very large and deep tunnel!!
The Croatian sensation! I got a new GBB and APT because of your recommendation and I love them.
I bought 2 A.seemanni slings like 3 months ago. I really like this species. They are heavy eaters. ❤️
In canada we call those Mosquito Hawks. They eat smaller bugs and dont bite
It's a pain when they chew on the background but I personally like the look of having them in an enclosure. When they do chew on the background, I take some sphagnum moss and hot glue it to that spot so it looks natural and fills in that hole. I've done a few things to deter my tarantulas from chewing on the background. I made the background thinner so they hit the back glass and tend to stop when they realize there's no place to dig or escape and I started putting the top of the background a little higher up so they don't think there's a hole there to dig in the corner. Doesn't work 100% but it helps.
Have you tried a board made of natural wood as background? But it would probably to moist for that.
Beautiful tarantula!
About the backgrounds; if you have a little more time to spare for making them and dont already do that, try covering them with two or three layers of flexible tile glue (i am not sure about the translation in german it is "flexibler Fliesenkleber") and letting that dry out before covering them with the substrate. It makes the background harder and less destructable. I always do this for my tarantula and snake enclosures to make them more durable😊
I think the film he used is ok. Because it will just sit indoors and won't be move everynow and then.
But yea, whaf you said is definitely more durable.
Of course you can just put on a film if you do not want to spend that time. But in my opinion it is so much nicer to have an actual background and not just a film especially for bigger and/or arboreal enclosures 😊
Oh and what i just remembered; an easy option would be to take a big piece of thin bark, soak it in water and then to press it so it gets completely flat. Cut it till it fits the terrarium and glue it on - easy background for a natural look (more or less)😊
I think a nice wood background and you can get a wood burner and put like the name of the spiders on the wood.
Whoah ! Look at that beauty !
Love your enthusiasm, have watched you for years and can honestly say it's been amazing seeing your love and enthusiasm for all of your animal's. If I was the be reincarnated as a T I would honestly hope to be lucky enough to have a keeper like you.
When are the crabs joining the dark den??? Can’t wait 😂😂
She is a beauty!!
You can also make the Background without Styrofoam!
You can apply the Silicone directly on the Glass and then the Substrate, so the Tarantula can't pull it away 🙂 or you use Cement and then substrate... both works awesome and there is nothing to pull 😉
Love seemannis, I've had Costa Rican B&Ws for nearly 20 years and a Guatemalan blue for 5 odd years, (just regional colour differences). There's supposed to be a Nicaraguan form which is more brown with cream stripes but I haven't seen one.
Beautiful Tarantula
She is beauuuuutiful!!
I guessed A. seemanni at 0:40 😄. My first tarantula was an A. seemanni and she is named Skeletor 😍❤️. Petko, if she doesnt enjoy her hide and seem skittish you can try to just add more substrate and remove the corkbark. A.seemanni are usually burrowers in the wild. My girl really calmed down after that and felt much more secure when she got to burrow. It was like night and day with her mood
Seemanni my favorite, look forward to seeing more of this one.
Im new to the hobby and I want to have a room like this in the future!