Quote Originally Posted by West Coast Jungle View Post
Are the hides tight, some like to be real snug so they can feel it around them, might be wht she feels more secure under the newspaper. Or then again maybe it's warmer there?
When he's in the hides, it's tight...he's snuggled up against the sides. He always used to stay in the hides except during a shed...so I think the hide size is OK.

However, something I just noticed and forgot to mention. The past few weeks I had switched to kraft paper and he was constantly hiding under that. When I had used newspaper in the past, he only hid under that during a shed cycle. Tonight, right before I had submitted this thread, I had cleaned his cage and went back to newspaper. That was about 2 hours ago. I just checked on the dude right now and after roaming around for a bit, he's now inside the hide once again. Wonder if the substrate (eg. newspaper vs. kraft paper) had anything to do with his behaviour? But then again, it's only been 2 hours, so is could possibly be that he wasn't able to find an opening between the sheets of newspaper to crawl under so went back to the hide for security. I'm going to check again tomorrow morning to see where he ends up after a typical active night for him.