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So I have four G. Pulchra now. All between about 2-4 inches. They all are kept similarly except the 2 inches have smaller enclosures. Things I have noticed compared to what I have been told. I have started keeping my G. Pulchra like I keep my forest scorps. High humidity (slightly lower than the scorps don't worry, I don't go about 75%), with good air exchange, a misting once a day minimum, "naturalistic" enclosure. Which means 6 inches of moist Coco fiber, a terra cotta pot for a hide, plastic plants in specific places I think make kind of an place to hide in and some that block the entrance of the pot for some privacy if needed, a water bottle lid for water source, and a flat rock or cork bark for an extra burrowing hide. All my T's are kept on my scorp and T shelf, where I have a gradient heat mat under the shelf they are on giving them 2 inches of surface inbetween them. Gradient goes from 70-80 degrees in temp, and I give them a light cycle in the form of a 50 watt basking bulb that is turned off in a 8 hour cycle. They have seemed to have what I have been told is a more natural cycle. All of them burrow during the day in very specific burrows they have made in different areas for each T per enclosure. The girls seem to like being under the pots while the boys seemed to both like the flat rocks or cork bark area lol. Anyway once the light has been turned off for about an hour or a bit more they come out for a while and wander, if they are hungry they will definitely be "hunting" and I usually drop something in that night. This means I have been feeding around once a week to once every other week depending on the size of feeder they had the week before and depending on how active the T has been. No one is showing signs of being super hungry but none have that super super fat, gonna explode if I move wrong look. They have the slightly brawny look compared to things like arboreals since the are definitely a terrestrial species. But they seem to be happy. I assume if I don't see them a lot they are doing well.