Iso pods , pill bugs!

[Ultum4Spiderz]

You can have air vents from substrate to ceiling. Air vents in the substrate will aerate the substrate (at a lesser rate) and release humidity into the air.

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The baby’s(little white pill bugs) will escape I can’t use vents that low but I can still cross ventilate the lid + the rim of the lid. It seems to hold humidity well enough but zero mold.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

The baby’s are growing really slowly is there anything that can speed them up?
I feeed them leaves occasionally veggie and dead small roaches.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

A few adults died, but the babies are still alive.

 

[Kada]

Why so wet?

It's bad enough to have the sub that wet, but that level of moisture plus rotting large insects is a cause for concern. Probably not that healthy for you either I would think.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Why so wet?

It's bad enough to have the sub that wet, but that level of moisture plus rotting large insects is a cause for concern. Probably not that healthy for you either I would think.

It dries out quickly in a few days I was worried they would dehydrate. I didn’t remove the roach. It looked like they were still eating it. I will soon.

 

[Kada]

It dries out quickly in a few days I was worried they would dehydrate. I didn’t remove the roach. It looked like they were still eating it. I will soon.

Seems like you may need to seriously reconsider your husbandry then. Drying out in a couple days, then drenched like above pictures with rotten meat doesn't seem right nor a solid long term care plan. Ispods, wlonce setup well, don't really need attention. Actually doing anything with their enclosure/food/water is maybe every every 2 weeks. If anything, it's just pinching out moldy food.

Don't be shy to start from scratch when things aren't setup well and the animals are passing away

Looks to me a better substrate along with better planned ventilation would be a pretty easy fix. They need air. But things shouldn't dry out in 2 days. This means your substrate is wrong. Probably both in constitution as well as quantity (depth). Possibly too much ventilation, but I find most keepers are drastically underventilated, not over, due to convenience/laziness/ignorance. An easy correction either way if a person finds it hard to keep gradients and proper substrate conditions, up your enclosure size. Tiny homes are much harder to maintain gradients.

 

[TLSizzle]

Also give them leaf litter. Like- a lot.
Dead fallen leaves work great.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Seems like you may need to seriously reconsider your husbandry then. Drying out in a couple days, then drenched like above pictures with rotten meat doesn't seem right nor a solid long term care plan. Ispods, wlonce setup well, don't really need attention. Actually doing anything with their enclosure/food/water is maybe every every 2 weeks. If anything, it's just pinching out moldy food.

Don't be shy to start from scratch when things aren't setup well and the animals are passing away

Looks to me a better substrate along with better planned ventilation would be a pretty easy fix. They need air. But things shouldn't dry out in 2 days. This means your substrate is wrong. Probably both in constitution as well as quantity (depth). Possibly too much ventilation, but I find most keepers are drastically underventilated, not over, due to convenience/laziness/ignorance. An easy correction either way if a person finds it hard to keep gradients and proper substrate conditions, up your enclosure size. Tiny homes are much harder to maintain gradients.

ahh I was worried they https://arachnoboards.com/threads/the-hunt-for-good-top-soil.362763/post-3394645 die if they dried out . Thanks for the suggestions.
This might be more suitable than coco fiber . But all I got to filter it isn’t good for removing anything but the large debris

The Hunt for good top soil ?

The woods. As long as there's no agriculture nearby, ought to be safe. I've collected tons of stuff from nature (woods and desert) and have never lost a spider because of it. Guessing lots of folks would disagree, but I'm not going to stop doing it just because they're worried lol. So, I've...

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[Kada]

ahh I was worried they https://arachnoboards.com/threads/the-hunt-for-good-top-soil.362763/post-3394645 die if they dried out . Thanks for the suggestions.
This might be more suitable than coco fiber . But all I got to filter it isn’t good for removing anything but the large debris

The Hunt for good top soil ?

The woods. As long as there's no agriculture nearby, ought to be safe. I've collected tons of stuff from nature (woods and desert) and have never lost a spider because of it. Guessing lots of folks would disagree, but I'm not going to stop doing it just because they're worried lol. So, I've...

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No, they can't fully dry out. It should be pretty easy to just keep a corner/side moist. The other not moist (if one corner is moist the other side will never be properly dry).

I always avoid wet equally also dry. Also good to feed on the drier side, especially dead animals.