Maintenance of our Avicularia Breeding Females and general chat 

Hello Dave and Camera Lady! What a treat to watch y’all doing normal maintenance. It gives me warm fuzzy feelings, like hot cocoa on a cold day. ❤ Those little pink feet are just so cute! I have to agree that although the lights look cool, I do miss seeing the actual colors of the enclosures and especially the spiders. I’m curious to see what the addition of white lights will do. So, I am off to 😴 🛌🥱. Thank you for the lovely video. Excellent work Camera Lady. Y’all take care stay safe and enjoy your new home. Good night! 🌘🤠🫶🏻🌚🌙

😊Dave, you've got to tap, and say "Housekeeping". And "don't throw the baby out with the bath water" is an old saying from centuries ago😂

Fun to watch! It's amazing to see how unruffled the inhabitants are while you are cleaning house! Even putting in new carpet! 😁😉 Love it. Take care, you two! 💕🕸🕷🕸💕

They were so calm. Like they were sipping Margaritas on the beach! WOW I'm excited to see how much your slings have grown. I know you still have a mountain of work ahead of you. And some very difficult decisions to make on cut backs. You are making great progress. I'm sure your spiders are glad to be back under your care! Peace.

The red in the growing light is desaturating the green in the moss, that is why it looks different. Opposite colours on the colour wheel do that to each other. If you find the light too much, you can use electrical tape to cover some of the lights to dim it or make the colour more blue or red. 😊👍🏻

WooHoo!!! 2 videos this week, what a great!! The room is really coming together and looking awesome. Best tarantula guy and camera lady on you tube!! Really enjoying going on this adventure with you all. Thanks for bringing me along. A big hello from Cincinnati Ohio USA 👋👋

Thank you for yet an informative and pleasant video, dear Dave, as well as our Sweet Camera Lady 👏! I have done a bit of house 🏠 keeping myself today with cleaning my apartment. I'm exhausted, but it feels really nice now afterwards! Time for lunch soon, too! Take care and warm greetings to you both! 👋❤️🕷👍

Purple Pink on the colour wheel is opposite to Yellow Green and it's neutralising the moss. 😊Love the new Setup both of you! Awesome job! Spidees look happy.. 👌

Dave, i was interested in tarantulas before but i was intimidated. After my first tarantula escaped its enclosure, due to a loose lid, poor design for a sling, i didnt want to mess with them again. I discovered your channel and i binged watched your videos. They are so great and informative, you got me hooked. Then i got 2 tarantulas to try. Scared of them still i watched them and you. Next thing i know i am super happy again and out of depression. Im pretty sure between the both of those things i feel like my old self again. From the bottom of my heart, thank you! Now i have 10 tarantulas which i love all of them. I even moved them with a paint brush and didnt freak out if i had to use my catch cup on a lively one. ❤❤❤❤ i appreciate you so much! Keep up the great work!!

Nice and clean again. And well behaved Spiders. P.cambridgei are always impressive when they're out. Maybe you could put the LED strips up too so that you could change the light for filming? After some time it's a lot of pink😉

I love these "How i do it" videos. Animals need proper care, not just fussiness, and the easier it is on them and the keeper, the better for both. (If plain water does the job, don't use chemicals whose names you can't even pronounce.)

New room is coming together nice so far .. they r really relaxed tarantulas..

Spiders are so squeaky clean ❤ 😊

These 5am starts are made so much better knowing I get to watch these videos when they’re first uploaded. Love the work guys!!

Prefer the lights on….so we can see the spiders better. Though the lighting is cool looking….it’s just better with the bright light on for viewing.

Great video, they look so much cleaner and I'm amazed how chilled your spiders are

Can’t sleep. This should relax me………….That was interesting and relaxing. Nite all. 👍👍

Great video guys brilliant spiders xxxx

Great to see the enclosures gettin back to normal I can just imagine those T's sayin Shut that door look at the muck in here ..

What a difference!! Looks great!! 👍👍💖💖🐾🐾

the pink light makes her toes really bright

Honestly I'm new to this, one year now Keeping T's and I only have 10 but I've come to learn you can train them to appear through a series of patterned taps. If I do a food tap on the shelf they all come out except for the ones that are moulting. If I tap for maintenance or just general reassurance they stay put but. I would guess by now (based on my above feeding tap) they know that tap too. I've had them all since tiny slings and the more time I spent with them the more intelligent I see that they are. I'm even inclined to think they could learn tolerate handling more through this method but I'm unwilling to stress them with the time and invasiveness that would entail.

Hi Dave and Camera Lady 💙💕🕷️hope you’re both well and having a wonderful week. I love when you do a husbandry video 😊 it’s always great to hear your tips on humidity control. It’s always great to see your tarantulas being used to you “banging” around them while they’re only mere inches away from you. You could definitely see a difference between a clean glass or a dirty one Dave 😊😊 Great shots from Camera Lady once again 😊 Take care and enjoy the rest of your week and weekend 💙💕🥰😘xxxx

Morning Dave & Camera lady the new place is coming on really well and the lighting goes well too hope ya day goes well today

The lighting is lovely, but it’s so dark on the videos now that I cannot see any detail in shapes or colors. I look forward to seeing you at your work table- that well-lit table- when I can see again. Plug on, Dave. You will finish it all in due time.

The spider homes do look much better.

Grow lights honestly are only needed if you’re doing some serious growing. With stronger lights, plants need more nutrients and water as well, if not all the lights only end up damaging the plant and creating heat. For everything else, like moss, normal white lights are good enough, and they’re nicer on the eyes too. Cheers!

This video was so relaxing. I really enjoyed listening to you (as always) and watching you revitalize those tanks. I didn't think much of the pink lighting at first, but with the glass now cleaned, I really like it. It makes those tanks pop. Call me weird, but I've always liked that squeaking sound of glass being cleaned. You and Camera Lady have a great weekend.

Hello great video information and updates Dave

So true about the moisture. I do believe however, that many of the tarantula keepers out there, the relatively experienced ones at least, have arrived to a similar conclusion, but not many are putting it out there. Luckily we have breeders like you spreading the word. Cheers.

The Beastie room is looking great Dave!

I can’t tell you how glad I am you explained why they preach tons of ventilation and how if kept properly you don’t need all that ventilation. I’ve tried to educate so many people on it and they talk to me like I’m stupid so I gave up. Maybe with your platform you can get through. The enclosures look so much better, I can’t stand dirty glass lol

Very well behaved spiders. Very relaxing video thanks Dave

Lovely vid and what a difference a little bit of maintenance makes. Nice to see how my small avics and versicolours will look like when older. Hope you had sunscreen on your hands, under those lights they'll be tanned in no time! I bet when you're out, camera lady takes the enclosures off and uses the shelf like a sunbed 😂

best spider keeping channel by a mile you are a legend Dave any chance u guys would do a live stream for a question-and-answer show or just a cool feeding stream or anything haha i cant get enough of your channel basically hahaha

magical video PROFF with all the advice to help the hobby. its going to take a few months to come back and be better than before. at times a wee clean up makes the difference. some great footage CAMERA LADY of the spiders . many thanks guys and take care

I use plant lights for the enclosures with life plants.I shine them.from the side The spiders not bothered by it.They turn their bum towards the light or stick their head underneath plants...I love that cricket sound, lol..Dave's beastie room would be nothing without cricket chirp😂😂😂😉

So informative thank you so much I really believe you’re the best channel when it comes to Taranchulas care and maintenances

Only been watching your videos for about a few weeks but I’ll be honest, you are truly so much fun to watch. Really great content. Keep it up ❤️

Coffee ready lets go!

Good job looking really nice just that little bit🕷️🕸️I know they like a clean house 🏡🛁

Off work just in time for a bed time video!!!

I mod a large FB group about tarantulas, and I will be referring people to this video a lot! Ventilation, humidity, mesh lids…all hot button issues with new keepers! There is SO much bad advice when it comes to Avics and versi’s.

Looking good Dave! My versicolor insists on using her water dish for a toilet. Why would she do that?🤢. Thank you for bringing us along again and showing how calm these beautiful creatures can be with proper care

from the script, 10:18 AUDIO ONLY : "dave starts preparing the guinea pig to feed to the spiders"

Stunning spiders paid over the odds for my female but was totally worth it tbh

I like the purple / pink lights BUT does a disservice to your set up, moss, plants and especially the spiders...their colors look muted. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS ..I was deadly afraid of spiders but now i want to purchase one and give it a nice home :) TY for all you do for your viewers and spiders. HUGS camera lady can't forget her. xox

Just love your videos. I stayed away from the arboreals so I wouldn't haft to go clean the glass. I still have a little arachnophobia. 😂

Good video. Nice to see the spiders and you back at it. Versi looks so good.

It’s all coming together ❤ I have no tarantulas , just a faithful subscriber bc they are very educational & fun to watch !!!!

I'm with Camera Lady, i don't like the pink lights. You don't see the beauty of the spider anymore, they are all just dark silhouettes. Same thing with the enclosures, the different beautiful colors of the moss, the sand, the bark etc just doesn't show anymore. But im glad you're both back!

"Should you go and stick your finger in [the soil], you might end up wearing a baboon". *_Proceeds to poke the soil_* Made me laugh :D

I appreciate all of your content and the content of the entire tarantula community. Thanks for another treasure trove of arachnid knowledge.

I love your new rum 😊

Your spiders are all amazing :D

such a tease at the end you should have fed them dave 😂 who doesnt like a bit of takedowns at the end of a video

They look amazing. Such a good video to watch ❤

I don't know what video equipment you use, but the focus sometimes needs tweaking manually as it sometimes focuses on the wrong part of the image. I struggle with this myself due to a sight problem, but it would make a big difference.

A big THANK YOU for making this video, it comes at the right time!

Hate to say it, but I'm not a fan of the new lights, Dave. They deter from the beauty of the spiders and their enclosures. Plus, it's so dark, I couldn't appreciate the work you'd done. No worries, I'm still a fan of you, Camera Lady, and of course your collection though! I sincerely hope the lights help with your plants. I have a ton of plants, but use the ones without the pinkish/purple light, and my plants do great with them, so just my 2 cents.

You’re up early! The purple lighting looks very calming. But I don’t know if spiders see colours or not?

Brilliant video Dave an camera lady, the new lighting gives a lovely soft glow, it looks good, and amazing how calm your spiders are, their web is incredible too, lovely clean enclosures, with moss, thank you for this great video. 😊😊❤❤🕷👍

I really enjoyed that. Thanks to you both. 😊

Well done Dave I'll bet you feel alot better now that you have done that if your anything lol me who has pretty bad diagnosed OCD then I'm sure you will be able to breath properly now When you look at the nice clean enclosures 😊👍

Great video ..: I have found that my glass enclosures are about 2-3f warmer then the room temperature I use moss as a slow evaporation system in my enclosures to keep humidity… only time I slightly increase it is right before a molt.

Starting to look good mate! Looking forward to the next one atb.

Looking fantastic, really coming together

That's why I like bigger enclosures. More room for micro climates. I just spray down one side and the other side stays dry. I also have bioactive, so the soil stays slightly warm due to decomp

Humidity in the enclosure and plus humidity in the room in consideration 👍

Ah brilliant video Dave, A simple fix but a very effective one and it makes a world of difference, that's another super job by yourself and camera 📷 lady Dave.

Dear Dave! I recently started keeping tarantulas. Your videos are very helpful for me. Thanks! I am grateful to learn from you. With love from Hungary.

I quite like the lights. The spiders definitely seem nice and chilled out with it. Be nice to see some videos in natural light too though. (Everyone else was having their say do thought I’d join in) Great have my regular Dave and camera lady fix back in whichever lighting. ❤😂❤

Dave, a wonderful job! I just can't imagine you working full time and caring for all your babies, how do you do it??

love seeing those avics 😍

Hi dave how are you doing today and hi camera lady how are you doing today

You need to manually set the white balance on the camera. Take a sheet of paper and put it under the light. I'd be more specific but I don't know what kind of cam you've got.

Thank you

I tend to keep my versi quite dry but with water always available x

i think your spiders missed yours and camera ladies voice

Love the lighting even with you working making noise the t's on the left are out and about..

AWESOME video Dave I keep my Minatrix almost dry and shes been doing well had her from a tiny wee sling now shes adult female

Can't wait till my 2 I have get to be grown to see what colors they are such a beautiful spider

Oh yes,I enjoyed the Video :)

Looking smart in there Dave.nice 1 ❤

I wouldn’t think in their natural climate they would have high humidity all year or even all day. Humidity changes during the year as most places don’t have year long rainy seasons. Might have done them good to have a chance to experience low humidity for a while.

Love the video as always. Thanks for covering humidity again. Always keeps me up-to-date and reassures me that I'm doing it correctly. Are those versi enclosured and most of your other arboreal enclosures you have, 20×30cm (8×12in)?

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could you use a Chee ah pet plant based product to grow some greenery. and grow it on the pieces of wood.

Such a beautiful tarantula!!

Hi Dave, just wondering if you have heard… A dazzling electric blue tarantula has been discovered in Thailand, with researchers describing the newly identified species as “mesmerising”?🕸️🕸️🕸️

Fantastic maintenance love & care for ur 🕷️ 😮❤

I'm very interested to see how the new lights effect the plants and spiders. They show up very rosy pink on my laptop screen, altering the colors of everything on that shelf. Will you experiment with just the one shelf of new lighting?

GREAT VIDEO!

With you having as many different types of spiders and different needs as you do, do you keep a data base other than what is written on the stickers on your tanks? Or do you just have an amazing memory????? You have said at different times that sometimes a certain spider doesn't need fed as often, do you keep a written account, or is the natural ability to go without feeding a bonus? I do realize that you can look at a spider and know its condition, but you have SO MANY!!! How difficult is it to keep track and do you have aids to help you...? Shelf position, color codes, etc? I tried raising my little house spiders, but the babies are SOOOO tiny LOL Even now they have been seen dropping down between my face and the computer screen...little dots with legs. (there were air holes in the adult containers LOL I even tried 4 layers of cheese cloth and everybody escaped!!)

After the spruce up the spiders have a webbing spree 😅

Now I want a Avicularia or Caribena versicolour. My partner wants a A. geniculata as the first spider (I am a wee bit scared of getting a fast spider or a very hair kicking one). Maybe we get both? Thank you for your awesome tips on how to keep them. I really love your calmness.

"AVIC AVIC? " one on the far left

I’m wanting to do lights above my tanks. Everything I’ve read said that purple is the very worst color for tarantulas, which is exactly what yours looks like. I believe you over anything I read !! Help !!

General Chad will breed all them Avicularia females.

Is it really that pink or is it just the camera ? 😊 🌸