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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mygalomorphic" data-source="post: 196581" data-attributes="member: 37369">IMO the more "natural" way is using the slabs and making a starter burrow. They will line the tunnel with silk to water proof it and ensure it keeps its shape so having a tube down there isn't really necessary. Plus they can excavate it the way they want if there is just substrate there as opposed to solid cork. I like to break tubes in half and then you can place them on substrate or stand them up against the background for arboreals. You get two tubes in one that way and the spiders don't care that they only get 1/2.If you really want to use the tube partially buried it isn't going to hurt anything, I'm just not sure there is a benefit to doing so.</blockquote>