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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benttwig" data-source="post: 146365" data-attributes="member: 28896">Thanks for the advice guys. Before I got your responses I went out and got some coco fiber and added a ton more substrate to the enclosure. She walled herself off with webbing completely from the outside world and curled tight into herself before, I added the substrate and pretty much stayed that way. I came home from work tonight with her webbing taken down a little and her wandering the tank a little. I thought maybe this was a sign she needed water or wanted food. I dropped a cricket right in front of her and she didnt react in the slightest, even when it crawled directly under her. She did however get pretty pissed when I went to add water to her dish, lashed out and went into a threat posture. This was the first reaction I've seen since I got her. It gave me a jump but I'm glad to see her have enough energy to get mad. Il be able to get her a smaller deeper enclosure in a few days. What should my next step be? Try and feed her in a couple days? Rehouse her in a few days? Or just leave her the hell alone for a while? The following photos are her enclosure with the added substrate, her reaction to me adding water, and then her calming down followed by her crawling back into her little shallow burrow she has. She hasn't attempted to make a new one in the deeper substrate yet.</blockquote>