@red river hog I saw that piece of media, and I saw the comments, someone said it looked small, but Tinopup noted that it went to farther sides of the log. I don't think its that bad of an exhibit, at least its natural and not a cooler.
If I go here when the Virus clears up I will make sure to take some pictures of the other habitats of this zoo, (its 15 minutes from my house). I feel like this zoo has a lot of problems, but they turn into excuses since its free and it's small. The problem is they try to cram too many species into one really small zoo, orangutans, tigers, lions, sea lions, gorillas, wolves, giraffes, zebras, bison. And the whole zoo can be walked around without looking at the exhibit in about 20 minutes. Honestly some of these species should be transfered to one of my favorite zoos in the world, which is 30 minutes away from this zoo. The Minnesota zoo itself. It has so much space, and it could be considered one of the Largest zoos in the U.S. just for how much space it has. and only around 2/5 of that space is used. So large major plans in the future are implemented, and hopefully will come eventually. I personally want the Minnesota zoo to get polar bears. Its the perfect zoo and climate for it, just like Detroit's marvelous polar bear habitat, this zoo could make a perfect habitat for bears as well, (already have one for black bears and grizzlies).
@CheeseChameleon2007 I noticed the comments, too, but I've seen this exhibit in person and I thought it was still a little small, then again, I don't know much about tarantulas. Also, I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly, but this is the National Aquarium and if you live near the Minnesota Zoo and Como Park Zoo, then you must be talking about something else.
@Jarne I was thinking the same thing, but many people were saying that it's similar to what they've seen in other zoos. It must be standard in the US to keep them like this. I've seen another exhibit in the same aquarium that has spiders and it's a large, mixed-species floor-to-ceiling terrarium, which is much better.
@CheeseChameleon2007 It's a bit ironic, too that there's such a small exhibit in a really large rainforest. There's lots of free-ranging birds, tamarins, sloths, turtles, and even dart frogs and Smooth-sided Toads and then this.
@red river hog Well, standard doesn't mean good. Especially when we are talking about vivaria in the US. Such a tank barely has any light and barely any choice for the spider (which I believe they deserve, at least some choice between multiple hiding/shaded spots and open light spots should be given). Further the amount of air in it is very limited so the oxygen level is easily affected, a reason why large vivaria (not necessarily huge) have my favor.
