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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuzzball79" data-source="post: 38304" data-attributes="member: 3190">As per title I'm a little concerned about my LP sling. I've had it for nearly a month and it's about 1/4 inch, maybe smaller. From the start it wouldn't take live prey no matter how small but would eat parts of pre-killed. Now for nearly 2 weeks it hasn't even eaten the dead prey.In another UK forum someone wrote that it wasn't normal for an LP to refuse live prey and suggested to try flightless fruit flies. I got some and put one in earlier this evening. It jumped and grabbed it, but immediately let go and left it. It sounds silly, but it's almost as if it lacks the instinct to kill its prey.My first thought with the fasting was of course premolt, but at that size would this really take this long (its mirror patch does look a bit greyish)? Also how long can a tiny spiderling like that go safely without food?Sorry for sounding like an idiot, but I never cared for anything this tiny before and just don't want to mess this up.</blockquote>