Packed the substrate down too firmly, how can I make a few inches of the surface less compacted?

[poodude289]

I know my G. Pulchra likes to dig, don't know about my b. hamorii yet, what can I do to fix the compact substrate on the top?

 

[menavodi]

Leave it like it is for a while. They dig in very hard soil in nature. Offer them a piece of bark and see what happens.

 

[poodude289]

Leave it like it is for a while. They dig in very hard soil in nature. Offer them a piece of bark and see what happens.

They're slings, and I mean rock hard.

 

[poodude289]

My G. Pulchra dug all the time with my other looser substrate, but I packed my new one down too much and now it is literally rock hard on the surface.

 

[Ratmosphere]

Wear gloves and loosen the substrate a bit. Simple fix!

 

[Eighth Eye Blind]

I've got a G pulchra juvi who hasn't moved a grain of loose coir since I got her. I think she expects me to dig a burrow for her. Laziest T that I ever saw.