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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SpellKaster4" data-source="post: 131778" data-attributes="member: 27884">So this is a question for anyone who is a little more experienced with LPs than I am. I came home from work today and checked on Peter and had a bit of a shock. Peter was freaking gone. I noticed last night that he had made what amounts to two caves under his cork wood. So I grabbed a flashlight and looked in those and didn't see him. I looked all around the enclosure, which if you've seen my other posts you know isn't very big, and I couldn't find any holes or signs of him having burrowed anywhere. It was as if someone had come in and taken him out. Now, I knew he was in there somewhere so I grabbed a paint brush and started lightly feeling around seeing if I could figure out where he was hiding. I'll post a picture so my description makes more sense but I found him and I'm a little confused. I knew going in that LPs, especially when they are young will often burrow so I was ready for that. But Peter buried himself. When I brushed some of the substrate it all moved together due to being webbed and he popped out like a trap door spider then ducked back under. Is that a normal thing for an LP? The only other slightly odd thing that has happened is that he didn't touch the last dubia that I offered him. Normally he's pretty quick about eating but he showed no interest this time. I'm not going to disturb him anymore just to be on the safe side but if anyone has some experience with this I would love to hear about it.About the pictures. I'll try to show the two "caves" that Peter dug out and I'll use my brush to point to where he is currently hiding.[ATTACH=full]30360[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]30361[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]30362[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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