I have a 6 mo. old hermann's tortoise and I can't get her to use her humid hide. It has some cyprus bark/mulch in it that is slightly damp (not drippy, just nice) and she can dig in it and hide under a hide in it, but she doesn't like it. I've also tried a peat/sand mixture too, she didn't like that either. She isntead goes and sleeps in the corner of the cage. Normal activity level, behavior, appetite, water consumption. Any ideas how to get something she would like to dig in? She seems to enjoy digging at her paper towel floor and turning that into shreds, but apparently this hide and play box full of real digging stuff she doesn't like. Ideas?

She's also a very curious tortoise, first thing she did when I gave her this thing was try to eat everything (it's ok, I watched her, she spit it out cos it wasn't yummy).

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