Re: Any invertebrate hobbyists on these boards?
I used to keep tarantulas as pets...I had a male of an old-world species similar to a Mexican Red Legs (but it wasn't that particular species) named "Spidey", and a female zebra tarantula named "Christina". When I stopped hearing the cheerful chirping of crickets at night, I knew it was getting close to time to get some more.
Their habitats were 15 gallon glass aquariums with mesh tops, a sandy soil, a shallow dish of water, and a nice semicircular log in each so the spiders would have some place to sleep.
Christina moulted in the late-1990s and then escaped (probably freezing and dying); I kept her exosketon in a transparent plastic box and had that until late-2004 when it was then lost when I moved.