As a newbie to the Tarantula care, I have tried everything as a substrate and I can tell you what I have found to be the best. Hands down, the winner is Naturally Organic Potting Soil. It costs me 59 cents a bag and My T.s love it. In fact they love it so much they bury themselves in it. I think they hold a party in their little dens. I put a couple pieces of bark on top and they start digging. They disappear, only leaving a little hole for the crickets to fall into and be ravaged.
It's very east to tell when the soil is starting to get dry because of the color change. A misting keeps the dark color. Must just be slightly moist. Too wet is bad. Most T,s hate soaking wet substrate. I misted my Chilean Rose to much, so it sat on it's bark where it was dry and wouldn't move until the soil became dry.
To solve the problem of crickets laying eggs in the soil, snip off the egg tube of the female crickets before introducing them into the cage. I say cage, but I really want to say Tarantula's envirnment. But cage is shorter.
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Again as a newbie, I give this advice. Take it with a grain of salt.
I feed my T.s crickets. They are readily available at good pet shops. People that keep reptiles use them as feed. Tarantulas love them.
I feed my crickets a good flake fish food. They eat them like potato chips, (can't just eat one), and it is full of nutrients. It is an excellent food for the T.s once ingested by the crickets. I keep a section of an orange in the contained and a water dish with a piece of paper towel in it so they won't drown.I keep my crickets in a plastic container that is open at the top and is about 2 feet high and is 12" X 12" square. They can't jump out and the open top keeps the odor from forming.
Some of the more adventurous crickets start climbing the wall, get about 6" up the contained wall, look down, get scared, and say the heck with it, and jump back down. Haven't had any escape yet.
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