Tarantula Sponge: Is it just a reg sponge?

[blondy627]

I recently won an auction on Ebay for various hermit crab supplies. The person I purchased them from decided to throw some other items in she thought I may want.

One of the items is an "All Natural Tarantula Sponge" by Zoo Med. There is no further description as to what it is. It appears to be just a sea sponge, but... I just want to know if anybody has any imput before I go putting it in with my precious hermies.

(I was quite happy with my auction... I got SO MUCH for so little )

[abegie]

I think that is probably just a regular sea sponge and would be fine for your hermit crabs. I read somewhere that some people use sea sponges to help their tarantulas drink just like they do with hermit crabs although I confess to being not very familiar with tarantula care. Hopefully someone else on this forum can tell you for sure.

[blondy627]

Thanks! Like I said, I just wanted to be sure... I didn't know if it had some kind of "tarantula germs" on it.

My brother had a Tarantula when I was little. I took it's exo skeleton in for show and tell and scared the pants of my teacher! She was like "Put it away" thinking it was the real deal...

[ladybug15057]

Is it a whitish in coloring like the one here:
http://www.zoomed.eu/Duits/water%20acc/ ... Sponge.htm

http://www.everythingforpets.com/zoo_me ... dept.1147/

The lighter ones as in the pictures above have been cleaned with some form of chemical or bleach.
Ones true natural sea sponges are brown in coloring.

http://www.petdiscounters.com/Medium-Na ... p1924.html

[blondy627]

The links you posted have the identical packaging, but the sponge isn't whitish. It's more yellow. I will chuck it just incase.