What kind of substrate do you use?
I am using 3 inches of the zoo-med creature soil.
Scrap that and use coco fiber, top soil (without any additives), peat moss or a mix of them.
Okay, I´m not familiar with that one, but I assume it´s fine (unless it consists of sand of something of that sort). Tarantulas will normally reenforce their burrows with webbing and whatnot, so maybe it´s just reorganising his enclosure or fooling around. They know how to they dig themselves out, so I wouldn´t worry too much about it.
It is a mixture peat moss, soil, sand and 'carbon'.
Ah, then I agree!
Why? The substrate the OP is using is basically just an overpriced soil/peat mix.
Topsoil is partly made up of sand IIRC.
I remember someone saying they used a sand blend before (I think with Haplopelmas?), on either here or the
In small amounts it's fine, I'd imagine that in very sand-heavy mixes it wouldn't hold up so well though.
i have also tried varying levels of sand, cocopeat and spagnum moss fragments mixtures and every spider has either hated it and sat in the corner curled up or never dug at all. i just use coco and spag now and this issue has been very noticeably averted
It very much depends on the type of sand. If I want really good burrowing substrate I mix in sand from my garden. It's very fine grained with a high percentage of clay and kept slightly moist and mixed with coco earth it makes for really stable, perfect burrows. If I use too much of that sand it gets too hard and the tarantula can't dig in it at all.
