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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackie" data-source="post: 27688" data-attributes="member: 3054">I just got a new Mexican Red Knee recently, and she won't stop climbing the walls of her terrarium.It's quite distressing. She's only 3" and I already have her in a 10 gallon tank. (Is that too much space?) Substrate is a tropical soil you can get from pet stores, I had this same substrate for my Goliath Bird Eater, and my Rose Hair. It may be a little moist for her, but I have an infrared lamp on during the day. I also have an UTH.There are two places to hide, one being a skull, and the other being a piece of drift wood. There are also some fake leaves in there. The soil is very high, so that she doesn't hurt herself when she climbs all over the place. I have a thermometer for temperature but not for humidity. The temperature is always between 70-75 on the cold side and 75-80 on the warm side. Though, I do turn the light off at night. Her abdomen was a little bald when I got her, but after moving her from a small 5"x8" plastic container to her new 10 gallon, it became even more bare. I was hoping that this had more to do with her molting than flicking hairs.Can anyone give me some insight as to why Shiva keeps climbing all over her walls and ceiling?</blockquote>