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Maybe this won't be for the Tub 'o' Mud Pet Hole purists but I've found keeping fossorials a little frustrating because, well, I guess the label 'Pet Hole' says it all really, you don't get to see 'em much. Anyway, I therefore decided to revisit something I briefly tried years and years ago shortly before I bowed out of the T hobby for a while. I bought a gnarly curved piece of tank decor wood, about a foot long and very arched and thus about 4" high and wide and sawed it in two, each piece thus 6" long. I've used each of these as a burrow walls and ceiling section for my H. gigas and C. hainanus females (both about 7" I guess if fully stretched out) and then used about a 6" / 7" piece of cork bark tube to serve as the burrow entry corridors, angled down through the substrate at about 45 degrees. Just posting a couple of pics of Miss Gigas chomping away on a roach in the main atrium of her burrow created by this process. She's not restricted to just that one 'room' so to speak and aside from the entry tube, has then doubled back to create her own additional corridor that feeds to the back of the tank. Net result is working pretty well as she's content to reside in the main atrium frequently and, though she may or may not know it, is guaranteed no roof collapse there and so could certainly do a molt when the time comes. I must admit Miss Hainanus is proving a bit more secreative and has webbed over the main window into her boudoir but I'm thinking that I'm going to be able to carefully slim-Jim down the front glass with a thin plastic sheet and clear that web to see how she reacts. Of course, if she webs over again, I'll have to take the hint and keep my nose out but it seemed a worthwhile experiment and is fascinating for Miss Gigas.
