I recently kept a male irminia to maturity.
I picked up another and decided to try something different.
I have an OBT and H Mac who have displayed burrowing tendencies, so I fill their arboreal tank about 40%-50% with substrate and the rest with vertical structure. The OBT is basically fully burrowed and the H mac is about 10% burrowed and the rest semi above ground.
So I gave my new juvenile irminia very deep substrate and it has fully burrowed and spends minimal time above ground.
The T is about 2.5" and has burrowed a about its full length in the substrate in a very deep hole much like a terrestrial would.
I'm getting attacked elsewhere online for "not giving proper care" to my irminia which seems ridiculous.
If anyone is giving improper care it's the folks giving their arboreal species hardly any substrate and forcing them into an arboreal behavior when that might not be their choice.
The term arboreal seems like a very vague term where people assume these Ts are climbing through tree tops when they just as well may be hiding under rocks and ground level cover.
It's very frustrating to me to see this dogmatic approach of adhering to rough archetypes rather than observing and adapting to how our Ts behave.
I picked up another and decided to try something different.
I have an OBT and H Mac who have displayed burrowing tendencies, so I fill their arboreal tank about 40%-50% with substrate and the rest with vertical structure. The OBT is basically fully burrowed and the H mac is about 10% burrowed and the rest semi above ground.
So I gave my new juvenile irminia very deep substrate and it has fully burrowed and spends minimal time above ground.
The T is about 2.5" and has burrowed a about its full length in the substrate in a very deep hole much like a terrestrial would.
I'm getting attacked elsewhere online for "not giving proper care" to my irminia which seems ridiculous.
If anyone is giving improper care it's the folks giving their arboreal species hardly any substrate and forcing them into an arboreal behavior when that might not be their choice.
The term arboreal seems like a very vague term where people assume these Ts are climbing through tree tops when they just as well may be hiding under rocks and ground level cover.
It's very frustrating to me to see this dogmatic approach of adhering to rough archetypes rather than observing and adapting to how our Ts behave.