.What's with the tacky skull?
I agree....that enclosure is essentially an arboreal enclosure and not a good fit for a terrestrial as the front doors prevent the addition of enough sub to make it a proper terrestrial set-up unless you lay the enclosure on its back, using the doors as the top. The climbing background isn't a good idea for a terrestrial either IMO, I just see it as something to encourage unnecessary climbing.....great for an arboreal though..
Really.
It's too far a fall from the sides to the 3 dangerous objects on the bottom. Not a good set up for a terrestrial. There are agile terrestrials and there are clumsy ones; B smithi are not one of more acrobatic species. Even arboreals fall sometimes, particularly when attacking prey. While some people's terrestrials may not have fallen in their cages, yours might. Is it worth the risk?
Where's the ventilation? Avics need good cross flow.Just get an avic, or add some bark and get an amblypigy.
The old "problem" with Exo Terras - in my opinion they're a poor choice for any T. But in the end it's personal preference, plus I've seen people making some very nice enclosure out of them with different height levels and exchanging the mesh on top for an acrylplate with ventilation holes instead. Personally, I can't stand those things and they're way too overpriced.Where's the ventilation? Avics need good cross flow.
A striking image...not of a fake skull, and I haven't seen real ones used, so there goes the striking part.What does everyone have against skulls? Skulls are cool. They're the boxes we all live in, since we are our brains, but they are concealed by our faces, the thing that other people perceive us as. It's a striking image to see it empty and uncovered, and even more striking when another creature, such as a tarantula, moves in and occupies the now empty space.
+1 -- Use the bleached skulls of your enemies, or nothing at all.A striking image...not of a fake skull, and I haven't seen real ones used, so there goes the striking part.
They look cheezy, like a bad scene on a B movie or walking around the neighborhood on Halloween night with the kiddies:evil:. JMO:wink:
I prefer to let dermestid beetles eat the flesh off my enemy's skull. It keeps that "natural" look+1 -- Use the bleached skulls of your enemies, or nothing at all.
A striking image...not of a fake skull, and I haven't seen real ones used, so there goes the striking part.
They look cheezy, like a bad scene on a B movie or walking around the neighborhood on Halloween night with the kiddies:evil:. JMO:wink:
It's true that they are often associated with those things. If I couldn't get past that association I might think they were tacky too. To the extent that it is possible, I try not to let my brain's over-developed pattern recognition system influence my perceptions too much, and try to just see things for what they are. And if you can see a skull as just a skull, I think they're cool. But that's just my opinion.They look cheezy, like a bad scene on a B movie or walking around the neighborhood on Halloween night with the kiddies:evil:. JMO:wink:
Top is screen, The front has vents, plus space all around the doors.Where's the ventilation? Avics need good cross flow.