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<blockquote data-quote="Konstantin" data-source="post: 193098" data-attributes="member: 30996"><p>Hi</p><p>you set her up too deep.I will personally recommend enclosures with less height for terrestrial slings. and about an inch of substrate at most.</p><p>I know that a lot of people like to give the sling chance to burrow but but if they burrow deep they will not feel vibration from pray as good if at all.Use 8,10,12,10,16 oz deli cups for terrestrial and leave the 32oz for arboreal slings.</p><p>I had a Phormictopus auratus that is one of the shy Phormictopus sp and lived more or less fossorial life till it hit 3 inch.It was provided with a hide and about 1-1,5 of substrate and had no problems burrowing if it wanted but when I offered pray it couldn't open the burrow quick enough to get it and sometimes sealed it back in less than an hour. </p><p>Pic below of my terrestrial setups for slings with substrate from </p><p>1oz pot- 3cm diameter and 1 cm substrate </p><p>[ATTACH=full]55731[/ATTACH]</p><p>4oz pot - 5cm diameter and 2cm substrate </p><p>[ATTACH=full]55732[/ATTACH]</p><p>8 oz pot - 7-8cm diameter and 2-3cm substrate </p><p>[ATTACH=full]55733[/ATTACH]</p><p>when slings burrow they fluff the substrate and raise substrate level right to the top sometimes </p><p>like on the pic below.That Cyriocosmus elegans has been living burrowed since I got it 6 months ago </p><p>[ATTACH=full]55734[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Regards Konstantin</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Konstantin, post: 193098, member: 30996"] Hi you set her up too deep.I will personally recommend enclosures with less height for terrestrial slings. and about an inch of substrate at most. I know that a lot of people like to give the sling chance to burrow but but if they burrow deep they will not feel vibration from pray as good if at all.Use 8,10,12,10,16 oz deli cups for terrestrial and leave the 32oz for arboreal slings. I had a Phormictopus auratus that is one of the shy Phormictopus sp and lived more or less fossorial life till it hit 3 inch.It was provided with a hide and about 1-1,5 of substrate and had no problems burrowing if it wanted but when I offered pray it couldn't open the burrow quick enough to get it and sometimes sealed it back in less than an hour. Pic below of my terrestrial setups for slings with substrate from 1oz pot- 3cm diameter and 1 cm substrate [ATTACH=full]55731[/ATTACH] 4oz pot - 5cm diameter and 2cm substrate [ATTACH=full]55732[/ATTACH] 8 oz pot - 7-8cm diameter and 2-3cm substrate [ATTACH=full]55733[/ATTACH] when slings burrow they fluff the substrate and raise substrate level right to the top sometimes like on the pic below.That Cyriocosmus elegans has been living burrowed since I got it 6 months ago [ATTACH=full]55734[/ATTACH] Regards Konstantin [/QUOTE]
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