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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nicolas C" data-source="post: 88778" data-attributes="member: 3795">Ephebopus spp. show arboreal behavior while young, like yours is doing. When they grow up, they begin to spend more time on/under the ground. As you stated, it's weird but they are like a cross between arboreal and fossorial (with u-hairs on the palps!)... Pooping like avics and burrowing like Ceratogyrus. Pokies act the same, but in reverse: first they dig then they climb.Personnal fact: my E murinus was a burrowing person in her previous enclosure. When I rehoused her, I wanted to give her the maximum height of substrate possible. Then I left only 5 cm between the ground and top of the enclosure. I gave her a hide, a pre-dug burrow, a moist soil... But she never dug. Never. And she never used her hide either. Always out in the open.My guess: as the top is close to the ground, she feels secure/comfortable enough and hidden enough and doesn't need to dig, as if the enclosure was the underground burrow. But that's only a guess...Envoyé de mon iPhone à l'aide de Tapatalk</blockquote>