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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VanessaS" data-source="post: 77695" data-attributes="member: 4948">Okay, so the three little ones I picked up the other night have horrible enclosures. The B. albo is almost completely bare with that ceramic pot that can roll back and forth and the two B. smithi are in far too high enclosures with too little substrate and great big rocks in them.I would like to rehouse them, but I can probably put it off for a little while.My question is...Is it better to rehouse them immediately when they are already stressed out about moving?  Or is it better to let them get a bit comfortable and then rehouse them? I just don't know which is worse - a higher dose of stress or two smaller doses.Normally, when I have rehoused them immediately, there was no way that I could have waited because their enclosures were completely crap. However, these guys seem to have been in this enclosures for a long time (judging by the webbing and overall condition) so I don't really put this in that category of having to get them out of it asap. Except for the B. albo - I'm doing them tonight now that my new substrate is dried out enough.</blockquote>