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<blockquote data-quote="Tarantula Trooper" data-source="post: 233217" data-attributes="member: 37740"><p>Wow, you change the water daily! That is a lucky spider..lol. Your Cobalt Blue is a fossorial T and a heat mat should never be place under their enclosure. For T's, if think that is necessary, a heat mat should be placed on one side of the enclosure and never underneath. When your T gets about digging the heat underneath could be too much. In the wild they stay down to escape heat. Your spider will also put substrate, bollus, and molts or anything in the enclosure in it's water dish up too and including completely burying it! I have a wild caught Cyriopagopous Schimdti female that hasn't dug but ate and would set basically just like your spider during the day. At night though she always out and about! With her being wild caught I attribute that posture during the day as semi- stress curl as in she is fossorial but out in the light. They don't seem quite comfy! My girl got re-housed into a bigger enclosure bit back and took to her hide and molted! So now waiting to see! And so is her male counter part. If your spider is eating and active at night I wouldn't stress that much. See if she starts digging and you are probably good</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarantula Trooper, post: 233217, member: 37740"] Wow, you change the water daily! That is a lucky spider..lol. Your Cobalt Blue is a fossorial T and a heat mat should never be place under their enclosure. For T's, if think that is necessary, a heat mat should be placed on one side of the enclosure and never underneath. When your T gets about digging the heat underneath could be too much. In the wild they stay down to escape heat. Your spider will also put substrate, bollus, and molts or anything in the enclosure in it's water dish up too and including completely burying it! I have a wild caught Cyriopagopous Schimdti female that hasn't dug but ate and would set basically just like your spider during the day. At night though she always out and about! With her being wild caught I attribute that posture during the day as semi- stress curl as in she is fossorial but out in the light. They don't seem quite comfy! My girl got re-housed into a bigger enclosure bit back and took to her hide and molted! So now waiting to see! And so is her male counter part. If your spider is eating and active at night I wouldn't stress that much. See if she starts digging and you are probably good [/QUOTE]
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