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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nize1995" data-source="post: 213247" data-attributes="member: 38691">Hello everyone,I have a sling Brazilian Black and a sub-adult Costa Rican Zebra female. I'm completely new to the hobby and I want to give these guys the best life possible, but I feel like I'm not doing it right. Every couple of days, I've been cutting up small worms for the sling and dropping them into the enclosure and removing them 24 hours later with no indication that it's been touched. When I drop the food in there, I spray some water into the enclosure to keep it moist and I'm sure to do at least one spray into the burrow it made itself. But it still doesn't seem to want to eat.The Zebra is in the same boat, she doesn't seem to want to eat. I received her in the mail on Tuesday (March 26th) and the seller informed me that she molted the week prior and ate a very small meal on Saturday, and another small meal prior to being packaged up for shipping on Monday. I put her into the enclosure Tuesday morning and tried to feed her Wednesday night, no dice. On Thursday night I dropped a cricket in there and I can't find it but I'm not entirely sure she ate it or not.I feel like I'm doing everything wrong, especially for the Zebra since I feel like she's not happy in her enclosure, and I'd like to be pointed in the right direction if possible.</blockquote>