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I know this is probably a question asked commonly, but for the life of me I can not get the search function to give me anything useful! I honestly spent 1 hour and 35 minutes working with it, and I never did find a single post that answered my questions.
I have an H. lividum sling, who I've had for a little under a month or so. It's right about 2" long now, and molted the day after I recieved it. It eats pretty well - it just ate three very small (but slightly larger than pinhead) crickets for me yesterday. My concern is this: it spends near no time at all on the floor of the substrate of the little critter keeper it is in. I have it on semi-moist eco-earth which is not bone dry, and is a little damp to the touch. It has about 3.5"-4" of bedding to burrow in if it wants and a starter hole on one side, and it's vial laid on it's side half buried as a hide if it chose to use that instead. It will on occasion hang out in the vial, and usually when it's in there it coveres the entrance with webbing. But it only goes down to the floor (that I ever see) like once every 4 or 5 days. It spends most of it's time up in a corner of the critter keeper, in a pokie pose (4 legs straight out in front of it, and 4 straight out behind it). It also has a small water dish in one corner with fresh water. Last night before I went to bed I put the three crickets in there - and they were gone this morning. I haven't left feeders in there that have gone uneaten for over 8 or 9 hours, then I take them back out if they haven't been eaten.
This doesn't seem normal to me, as in my searches I saw pictures of teeny tiny sling burrows - showing that they do burrow even when slings. I am starting to wonder if this is even an H. lividum sling I have here because of this bizarre behavior. It is sort of hard to get a picture, but I will try to take one of it in a bit. It is sort of a greyish brown, and has charcoal grey/black chevron striping on it's abdomen. No bluish coloration yet. What is going on with this little guy? Any help would be very much appreciated. This is my first sling, and I would hate to lose it due to some stupid mistake on my part.
I have an H. lividum sling, who I've had for a little under a month or so. It's right about 2" long now, and molted the day after I recieved it. It eats pretty well - it just ate three very small (but slightly larger than pinhead) crickets for me yesterday. My concern is this: it spends near no time at all on the floor of the substrate of the little critter keeper it is in. I have it on semi-moist eco-earth which is not bone dry, and is a little damp to the touch. It has about 3.5"-4" of bedding to burrow in if it wants and a starter hole on one side, and it's vial laid on it's side half buried as a hide if it chose to use that instead. It will on occasion hang out in the vial, and usually when it's in there it coveres the entrance with webbing. But it only goes down to the floor (that I ever see) like once every 4 or 5 days. It spends most of it's time up in a corner of the critter keeper, in a pokie pose (4 legs straight out in front of it, and 4 straight out behind it). It also has a small water dish in one corner with fresh water. Last night before I went to bed I put the three crickets in there - and they were gone this morning. I haven't left feeders in there that have gone uneaten for over 8 or 9 hours, then I take them back out if they haven't been eaten.
This doesn't seem normal to me, as in my searches I saw pictures of teeny tiny sling burrows - showing that they do burrow even when slings. I am starting to wonder if this is even an H. lividum sling I have here because of this bizarre behavior. It is sort of hard to get a picture, but I will try to take one of it in a bit. It is sort of a greyish brown, and has charcoal grey/black chevron striping on it's abdomen. No bluish coloration yet. What is going on with this little guy? Any help would be very much appreciated. This is my first sling, and I would hate to lose it due to some stupid mistake on my part.