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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 227095" data-attributes="member: 29323">Hello & welcome to the hobby & the forum. My first OBT was a real sweetheart. She was relaxed & always out. Sadly, I lost her just after a molt.My two current OBT's, are a few years old & we have had them from tiny slings. When I rehoused them as Juvi's about a year ago. I simply picked up the small piece of bark they were on & placed it into the new enclosure & left them to move to the bark tube in their own time.  And to be honest, it is only the past month or two that we have seen more than the slightest glimpse of them, since we acquired them. I have found plenty of cover is the first key with old worlds. Give your T's that & they move for cover & not out of the enclosure. Although a few will love to run the walls, like a wall of death motorcyclist. For cover, I use plastic plants, normally with some form of vine wrapped around & hot glued onto the bark tube. The second key is being calm with them.  I have often picked up bark to move old worlds from one enclosure to another. And regularly with my fingers very close to the T being moved. But I have had a T that I am even cautious of getting close to, with long tweezers. On the day she arrived she went from calm & relaxed, to the top of the paint brush in milliseconds, but fortunately took the brush out of my hand & thus missed my fingers when she did so. So it is also about knowing your T. Thus if you buy a sling, it will grow, as does your knowledge of it's temperament. But don't confuse defensiveness, with aggression.</blockquote>

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