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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tomoran" data-source="post: 202361" data-attributes="member: 1152">Hello! It can sometimes take them a while to settle in. Did you provide it with a hide and a starter burrow? I know that there are care guides out there that say you don't have to offer fossorial species burrows because they will make their own, but I've found that most will start digging much faster if offered a place to hide right off the bat. It offers them the security to settle in and to start digging. I will give them a piece of cork bark and dig a hide out underneath it to start them off. I've also found for the moisture dependent species (like the C. lividus), if the top layer of soil is a little drier and the bottom layers are moist, they will dig to those. I will sometimes create a starter burrow and pour some water down the hole to make sure that it's nice an moist. This can entice some spiders into digging. If you've already done all of this, it could just be a case of the spider not settling in yet. I've had fossorial species take several weeks to finally hunker down and dig.</blockquote>