Kit includes:
1-Custom made vivarium with fitted lid and real log or bamboo background
1-Bio active kit 1:
1-bag of soil/ coco
1-bag of charcoal
1-bag of random leaves
Several-mixed size logs
Several-stones and sticks for decoration
Several-various bits of bambo
1-tub of cleaner Insects (woodlouse,springtails)
1-bag of bar
1-spray bottle
1-tweezers
1-pair of gloves1- Scorpion
1-Tub of feeder insects
Every thing you need to set up and maintain the kit will be included.
About The Kit:
This kit includes every thing you need to set up and maintain a unique custom vivarium that makes a entertaing decorative feature that sits nice on a computer desk, book shelf or mantlepice.
The vivarum is easy to set up and cusomize to your likeing with a real log background and fitted lid and sturdy construction that is built to last a vast varity of insects will thrive in the envioroment with good airflow and sides that most insects includeing scopions will not be able to climb!.
Set Up:
Once you have your kit it will take about 15 minites to set up and you can use the gloves and tweezers provided. Some brave people like to handle trantulas scorpions ect, if you would like to handle the scorpions it is reccomended you start handleing them while they are yound so they can get used to your sent ect. The scoripions venom is harmless but they may (very unlikely) bite and or sting!.
Fist you will want to add a substrait to you vivarium. Add the charcole to the vivarium first to make a bottom layer. The charcole will regulate moisture, absorbs toxins and stop the groth of mould.
Second add the coco layer 2 3rds thicker than your charcol layer. This will form the ground envioment your scorpion likes to live on (also your cleaner insects).
Coco fibre hold moisure but not to much and is fibre not soil so it has no bactira or mould spores eggs ect that you dont want to introduce to your vivarium.
For the 3rd and final layer you cann add leaves and bark, you dont have to cover all of the area with this layer or even any at all but it will give the scorpion and cleaner insects small pools of water to drink from after spraying. It also helps regulate moisture.
After that decorate to your likeing lightly spray and add your insects!
You now have a basic vivarum set up that will be for the most part self cleaning as the cleaner insects provided will process all scorpion waste.
Maintanace:
To maintain the enclose spray once every 2 or 3 days or so to maintain a bit of moisture and add small insects a few times a week or how ever many the scorpion wants to eat, you cannot overfeed as the scorpion will refuse the insect if it is not hungry.
About The Insect:
Brachypelma albopilosum
This spices of trantula is kown as a easy to keep slow moveing docile begginer spices of trantula that is perfect for some one new to owning this type of pet.
Brachypelma albopilosum, sometimes also known as Honduras Curly Hair Tarantula, can be found in subtropical areas of Central America, countries such as Costa Rica & Honduras, as the name implies. Curly Hair Tarantula is a very popular tarantula species in the pet trade.
One of the reasons for Curly Hair’s popularity is its docile nature, hardiness, and slow movement, which make it an excellent pet even for beginners. And no wonder, most beginners want something easy, to begin with, and Curly Hair tarantula is exactly that – calm, peaceful & easy to take care of.
As for its appearance, Brachypelma Albopilosum is known to be a wooly looking tarantula with beautiful dark body colors that are decorated by shiny bronze & golden hairs.
Brachypelma Albopilosum Lifespan & Size
When it comes to its size, Curly Hair is known to be a medium-sized tarantula, growing up to 5 inches in legspan. Females are slightly larger than males on average, and they also live longer. Males are known to live up to 4-5 years, while females live on average about 10 years, some even surviving 15 in captivity with proper care.
As for the nutrition, Brachypelma Albopilosum is not a needy one, and it will eat standard tarantula pet food. You should serve it gut-fed insects that are loaded with vitamins. Here are some foods that you can use:
- Crickets
- Locusts
- Meal worms
- Roaches
- Pinky mouse, if you want to go for a small treat