Digging to Australia?

[WolfieKate]

Hello

I made a nice rain foresty enclosure for my juvenile female A (8-9cm). She’s been in it a couple of weeks. No aggression, eating well. But she won’t stop digging. There’s more soil on top of the bark shelter than under it and the corners of the enclosure have tall towers of precarious soil which roll back down. Ive been in once and ladled soil out from the towers. Is that Ok? Just to spoon the extra soil out. Not sure there will be much soil left soon! That or she‘ll be carrying soil thats rolled back down forever. 20x20x30 but deep substrate and she’s hit the glass bottom.

 

[WolfieKate]

Sorry A Geniculata.

 

[Mudring76]

Hello

I made a nice rain foresty enclosure for my juvenile female A (8-9cm). She’s been in it a couple of weeks. No aggression, eating well. But she won’t stop digging. There’s more soil on top of the bark shelter than under it and the corners of the enclosure have tall towers of precarious soil which roll back down. Ive been in once and ladled soil out from the towers. Is that Ok? Just to spoon the extra soil out. Not sure there will be much soil left soon! That or she‘ll be carrying soil thats rolled back down forever. 20x20x30 but deep substrate and she’s hit the glass bottom.

Maybe try packing the corners down with the spoon so it doesn't roll back down. If it won't pack try moistening the corners first.I have a juvenile in a temporary enclosure and it has done the same it's dug the whole bottom out underneath the cork bark to the bottom of the enclosure.

 

[m0lsx]

In the wild, they live in burrows within the rain forest. So it is just doing what comes naturally. Leave it to it's endeavours. If it's wants substrate towers, then let it do it. As long as nothing heavy, like stones, or heavy water bowls are in the enclosure, it will come to no harm.

 

[WolfieKate]

Thank you for your replies. She‘s still at it. I might take the water bowl out. Thank you. She’s actually my favourite of my small collection of 5.

 

[m0lsx]

I use things like milk bottle lids, peanut butter jar lids, coffee jar lids etc. They are light & unlike those commercial water bowls, they do not lose water. Plus, I just add an extra water bowl if my T's bury or use a water bowl.

My Ornithoctonus aureotibialis included her first water bowl into her burrow's entrance.

 

[WolfieKate]

Wow. She was busy! Thank you. I do find the commercial water dishes a bit clunky. I’m going to go more light!