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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VanessaS" data-source="post: 76285" data-attributes="member: 4948">Hi there.  Many hobbyists started out with the same species - including me.  There is a lot of information available to you and a lot of people familiar with them.Keep the substrate very dry for this species. Let them settle in a bit because it sometimes takes a bit of time before they are comfortable.  If you have all the crickets inside their enclosure right now, please remove them.  Keep the crickets in a separate container and only feed them one at a time.  If they don't eat them within a few hours to a day, take them out again.  Having crickets inside their enclosure, when they have no intentions of eating them, will stress them out a great deal. If the spider starts to moult, they can be very dangerous as well.They will often go long periods without eating.  I would suggest that you only buy a couple of crickets at a time and see if they are in the mood to eat them.  The rest will just go to waste... unless you have another spider to pick up the slack (which is a B. albopilosum in my house).Depending on their size, they will often be out and about.Welcome!</blockquote>