I have a 2.5 inch female B. Smithi, and I've had her since December. She's been doing wonderful, eats a large cricket weekly (though twice now I have let her go for two weeks before feeding just to mix it up a little). I keep her in a circular, 9 inch diameter, 3.5 inch deep Kritter Keeper on approximately 0.5 inch desert substrate comprised of English walnut shells.
She's got a water dish with stone in it and half of a coconut shell with a hole cut in it for a hide. She spends most of her time lingering just insider her hide, bolting out to grab prey and then going back in to feed. Two days after feeding, I lift her hide to remove leftover cricket bits with tweezers, and then put it back in place. She is otherwise left alone since she is rather skittish thus far.
However, this morning, she did something completely new. When I checked on her this morning, I found that she had made a large ball of webbing and substrate just large enough to plug the opening of her hide! I've heard of T's closing their burrows with webbing, but not of rolling a ball of substrate. Has anyone else had a T do this? I'm assuming it's normal and I don't plan to bother her since she took the effort to "shut the door", but is there any time period at which I should check on her or remove the plug myself, or should I wait until she decides that she wants to come out?
She's got a water dish with stone in it and half of a coconut shell with a hole cut in it for a hide. She spends most of her time lingering just insider her hide, bolting out to grab prey and then going back in to feed. Two days after feeding, I lift her hide to remove leftover cricket bits with tweezers, and then put it back in place. She is otherwise left alone since she is rather skittish thus far.
However, this morning, she did something completely new. When I checked on her this morning, I found that she had made a large ball of webbing and substrate just large enough to plug the opening of her hide! I've heard of T's closing their burrows with webbing, but not of rolling a ball of substrate. Has anyone else had a T do this? I'm assuming it's normal and I don't plan to bother her since she took the effort to "shut the door", but is there any time period at which I should check on her or remove the plug myself, or should I wait until she decides that she wants to come out?
