Other alterations to the design of the experiment that would be beneficial to the results include a more streamlined environment chamber design and a more consistent ice refreshing procedure. In particular, the cold condition chamber presented some challenges over the course of the experiment that were likely the reason one of the spiders escaped. Because ice was melting within the chamber at any given time, moisture was also accumulating within the environmental chamber. Although this was occuring at a slower rate compared to normal conditions due to the insulatory properties of the styrofoam box, it was still occuring. This in conjunction with ice being added periodically to the chamber lead to the deformation of the divider platform suspending the enclosures within the chamber. We believe that this created an opening and allowed one of the spiders to escape from its respective enclosure. To compensate for this, changes to the design and material for the cold condition environmental chamber would have to be made.
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