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<blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 58195" data-attributes="member: 4199"><p>That's a great looking specimen. We have a 1/2" Boehmei named Koby we lovingly refer to as Butthead because he's so tempermental. WIthin a few days after he arrived he had flicked all the hairs off the back half of his abdomen. I only saw him flick them at my son and I once. I thought we was scratching an itch until my son moved back and told me what he was doing. So i'm guessing he flicked the rest off at the cricket we tried to feed him a few days after he arrived.</p><p></p><p>I've seen him digging in the substrate, but I'm pretty sure he was looking for the Dubai we fed him rather than digging a burrow. I made a burrow for this one using an unused prescription bottle the 1 inch diameter kind. We cut the top off, buried it at an angle and filled the "bottom" with substrate. He spends almost as much time in the burrow as he does in the open. We made his substrate slightly damp and packed it to hold shape (roughly the same consistency of potting soil) in case he wanted to burrow then covered that with a thin layer of dry substrate to simulate earth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kormath, post: 58195, member: 4199"] That's a great looking specimen. We have a 1/2" Boehmei named Koby we lovingly refer to as Butthead because he's so tempermental. WIthin a few days after he arrived he had flicked all the hairs off the back half of his abdomen. I only saw him flick them at my son and I once. I thought we was scratching an itch until my son moved back and told me what he was doing. So i'm guessing he flicked the rest off at the cricket we tried to feed him a few days after he arrived. I've seen him digging in the substrate, but I'm pretty sure he was looking for the Dubai we fed him rather than digging a burrow. I made a burrow for this one using an unused prescription bottle the 1 inch diameter kind. We cut the top off, buried it at an angle and filled the "bottom" with substrate. He spends almost as much time in the burrow as he does in the open. We made his substrate slightly damp and packed it to hold shape (roughly the same consistency of potting soil) in case he wanted to burrow then covered that with a thin layer of dry substrate to simulate earth. [/QUOTE]
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