u/Ancient_Ranger_1666

Hey everyone. I welcomed home a Caribena versicolor sling yesterday. I have them in a bioactive medium sized tarantula coffin crib, so there is plenty of cross ventilation. I put a humidity monitor inside the enclosure today and it’s reading 90%. The soil is not overly damp to the point of sopping wet but there is moisture in it. I also live in South Carolina and it’s VERY humid here this week due to thunderstorms rolling in, so I can imagine that is causing humidity levels in my home to be quite high as well. Will the sling be okay or do I need to do a rescue mission and change the soil to completely dry soil??? Please help as I am super worried.

My boy has been big enough to eat rat pups for awhile now, but every time I try to switch him from mice(hoppers) to rat pups he refuses them. He has eaten the mice consistently since I’ve brought him home and he rarely turns them down. When switching to rat pups, I end up going through 3-5 of them over the course of a week or two offering them, and after that many refusals and wasted rats, I feel desperate to get him to eat. At this point, I’ll offer a mouse, he takes it, and goes back to eating mice consistently. He turns 1 year old in June and is only 270 grams which seems on the smaller end, however I think he looks quite good. I want to switch him to rats because I know they are more nutrient dense and at some point he’s going to need to eat them once he’s bigger. Has anyone else struggled to make the switch? Any tips or advice? I have attached some recent pics of my boy too.