Aphonopelmas come from different types of habitat.
You were most likely given (I'm assuming) a US native Aphonopelma, you can keep these in a thin layer of Coco Fiber (or deep if you want it to burrow -which it may not), if you keep her on a thin layer of Coco Fiber you will need to provide a hide (so she's not stressed out of her mind being out in the open all the time), don't worry about temperatures too much, try to keep it at room temp, they will fare well anywhere in between 60's to 80's or 90's.
Give her a water bowl (you don;t have to mist her) and she should live a happy life ;) _________________ coming and invading :)
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I have an unknown Aphonopelma (recently temporarily identified by Hendrixson as an Aphonopelma eutylenum species "complex" and temporarily as an Aphonopelma smithi), which is from the hot and dry Mt. Diablo (Northern California). I have tried unsuccessfully to get it to use a burrow via half pot, pre-dug hole, bark, etc. It has never used one in the six weeks I've had it.
It tends to act like a G. pulchra, in that it is a regular earth mover, but basically just tends to a fat mound of dirt and changes it endlessly. No idea if it is "comfortable" or not. Ambient temps have generally been no less than 70 and no higher than 80. I put a small water dish in there, but it seems to have been ignored.
And I've also been told that Aphonopelmas can be less inclined than other species to eat like hogs. Mine has gone weeks without taking a cricket, then decided to.
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