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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tomoran" data-source="post: 107038" data-attributes="member: 1152">Which species is it? Did it eat at all before it closed its burrow?Like [USER=3458]@Enn49[/USER] said, that is not at all strange for a sling. In the wild, slings are easy prey, so many of them stay secreted away in burrows for safety. In captivity, if given room to burrow, most will exhibit the same behavior. My first L. parahybana sling spent almost the first full year of its life burrowed. When it's entrance was open, I knew it was still eating. When it closed it up, I assumed that it was premolt time and waited to drop prey in until it opened again.I also have an Aphonopelma that buries itself like clockwork in late October every year and doesn't come out until April. In this case, it's emulating what it would do in the wild when winter comes.</blockquote>