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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 132081" data-attributes="member: 27677">Wow, what a busy couple of weeks! Precisely why I moved to inverts though, unless there's been some unusual drying all the inverts will be ok without food for 12 days, especially as the temps have been topping out at around 18c near the enclosures. I can't say there's been much action but it wasn't much different at 25 - 30c a couple of months ago.12th JuneGeoffrey (P. crassipes) - fed small cricketBlue Leg 2 -  removed medium cricket (still alive) but added a small cricket because the abdomen was looking a bit thin. Perhaps I was premature in adding a larger cricket even though the spider has moulted in my care and looked large enough. I always add tiny piece of carrot if a cricket is not taken immediately so there's no hungry crickets with the spiders, but I doubt this one is near another moult yet. It was feeding well though, I'm surprised to see it looking a bit thin to be honest.Blue Leg 3 - cricket gone, added sml cricket, still no sign of the spider, I think I've seen it twice since I've had it, same with BL1. BL2 I see quite a lot.Blue Leg 1 -  sml cricket.Selenotypus plumipes "Northern Territory" - Burrow open, medium cricket still alive from 30th May. Has not moulted but still looks very plump. I put some fresh carrot in and left the cricket, it doesn't look that lively anyway.Selenotypus "sp.2"1, 2, 3, 4 (removed live cricket), 6, 11, 13 burrows blocked.5*, 7, 9, 10, 12*, 15, 17 given extra small live crickets.14 and 16 very lively, got a nice tunnel system going with a couple of entrances, given extra small crickets.*I found a moult in number 5s enclosure under the sphagnum moss, it doesn't look very recent, almost dried to nothing and fallen apart. This sling has had it's burrow blocked for over a month, it's hard to tell now whether it is deliberately blocked atm or a bit of the "volcano" fell across the hole when moving the enclosure, or if it has just temporarily blocked it for daytime. I added a small cricket and some carrot. I'll check on things tomorrow.*12 was hard to tell if it's burrow was supposed to be open or closed as while it was wide open it was flush against the lid. I can see the spider at the bottom of the enclosure, it looks lively and no moult visible so I removed some substrate and added an extra small cricket.Stents1 given small cricket2 given small cricket3 given small cricket5 given medium cricket</blockquote>

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