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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 201684" data-attributes="member: 29323">Don't forget terrestrial. Not all T's either burrow or climb. Although most slings are at the very least partially fossorial as you have found with your hamorii.All my juvi & adult hamorii's (& other brachypelma's,) are  very much terrestrial. But my sling brachypelmas are largely fossorial.Those enclosures look fine. I use individual (small) artificial leaves in sling enclosures to provide cover  in my vials &  enclosures for most of my slings, as they are lighter, in weight,  than bark & they also hold a mist of water better.Avicularia avicularia (Avic avic) are arboreal & take care with them as slings, as they can be fragile. This is in a large part due to the amount of poor care advice available. People keep them much too humid & without good cross ventilation. I use a pin, held in some pliers with elastic bands & heat the pin on a cooker ring  & simply melt a few holes into the side of the vials that I use for arboreals, which tend to need more air circulation than terrestrials or fossorials. Although even climbers will burrow as slings sometimes.Hamorii & Hapalopus columbia are terrestrial, but I believe the columbia is likely to need sufficient substrate, even as an adult, to burrow. But personally, unless I know my T's well enough, to know that they will personally not burrow, then I make sure they have sufficient substrate to burrow in & if I use an enclosure for a non arboreal that is much higher than the T's leg span, then I normally close the distance with substrate. As falls are dangerous to T's.</blockquote>

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