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Arachnoknight
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Alright so this dude, is such a dude. He's just doing his thing in his new home, getting comfortable but I'm wondering if I should do anything or just kinda let him do his thing and jump in only if I need to.
So he's a few days into this setup, 5.5 ish inch little fella (unsure sex, so 'he' for now.) but he immediately took to his rock hideaway and started burrowing. He got to the bottom corner of the terrarium and then started going down the back of it, at the very bottom. He's dug about halfway across the back now.
1. He's about to block himself off from the outside world and have to burrow through his own pile to get out LOL, but my real concern is;
2. I tamped this substrate down real hard, so I'm hoping it holds but, what if it falls in on him? Do I jump in or let him dig his own way out or play it by ear?
I assume, were this a real natural environment he'd be set to figure it all out but this is tamped in substrate that he probably would expect to hold better than it actually could. I'm sure he's fine and I should just leave him alone and, intend to, but though I better ask just in case.
1. Should I spread his huge mound of dirt out, slide it over, or totally leave it alone? I assume leave alone.
2. Should I intervene if it caves in? Give it a day? Leave as long as I can see him (on the glass?) and monitor? Just wondering your thoughts so IF the day comes, I'll already have an idea of what to do.
I love watching him do it, it's hilarous, carrying the dirt, but my goodness!
You can see his little balding bum in this last one. I took a couple other pictures to try to show the back but it's too difficult at the moment, I don't want to move it, but it goes about halfway across the back of the tank now too. Not the width you see here, more just the width of the spider.
Thoughts? Just leave as is I hope and assume.
So he's a few days into this setup, 5.5 ish inch little fella (unsure sex, so 'he' for now.) but he immediately took to his rock hideaway and started burrowing. He got to the bottom corner of the terrarium and then started going down the back of it, at the very bottom. He's dug about halfway across the back now.
1. He's about to block himself off from the outside world and have to burrow through his own pile to get out LOL, but my real concern is;
2. I tamped this substrate down real hard, so I'm hoping it holds but, what if it falls in on him? Do I jump in or let him dig his own way out or play it by ear?
I assume, were this a real natural environment he'd be set to figure it all out but this is tamped in substrate that he probably would expect to hold better than it actually could. I'm sure he's fine and I should just leave him alone and, intend to, but though I better ask just in case.
1. Should I spread his huge mound of dirt out, slide it over, or totally leave it alone? I assume leave alone.
2. Should I intervene if it caves in? Give it a day? Leave as long as I can see him (on the glass?) and monitor? Just wondering your thoughts so IF the day comes, I'll already have an idea of what to do.
I love watching him do it, it's hilarous, carrying the dirt, but my goodness!
You can see his little balding bum in this last one. I took a couple other pictures to try to show the back but it's too difficult at the moment, I don't want to move it, but it goes about halfway across the back of the tank now too. Not the width you see here, more just the width of the spider.
Thoughts? Just leave as is I hope and assume.
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