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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 144534" data-attributes="member: 27883">From what I've read, they are a "swamp" spider and there is a youtube video of one underwater. This being the case, I keep the substrate more damp in their enclosures. I house my adult female on coco coir. I made her a cave, and she uses it, but also did a lot of her own excavating down at the bottom of her cave. I had another one that hid all the time and never came out. I sold that one. Then I received another one as a free-bee and this one is awesome. It is out most of the time and she's a beast when it comes to eating. With the exception of a brief pre-molt period, she's never seen a roach she didn't want to pounce on.I use Blatta lateralis for all of my small slings. Newly hatched lateralis are the same size as pinhead crickets. Maybe even a little smaller. That is what I'd suggest. Dubia babies will be fine to offer after a molt or two.[ATTACH=full]35089[/ATTACH]</blockquote>