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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 175092" data-attributes="member: 29323">Welcome to the ownership of a pet holes. This is a sub category of Tarantula ownership & involves spending months (or longer.) Feeding & maintaining the enclosure with no sight of the T which you hope is still alive & doing well inside it's hole.Depending upon size, the disappearance of food is the best sign of life. However if it's a small sling, that is not always obvious.The most common reason for something like a curly hair suddenly going subterranean is an upcoming molt. This could take days, weeks or potentially much longer. Each T is different. It could also be because  your curly hair likes to burrow, I have one that does & another that, never has.All we can really do is wait & hope. I lost a young hati hati a few weeks ago, I had not seen it for months, food had not disappeared for a long time & by the time I felt I really needed to go looking, nothing remained of it. Given it's age & size, it possibly had a bad molt. And being pre-molt is a reason for food not disappearing for a period of time, days maybe weeks.  Also some T's go months with no food intake, just because they want to. So it is all down to knowing your T & giving it time, to do it's own thing. In other words we guess, hope & worry.</blockquote>