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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eighth Eye Blind" data-source="post: 240009" data-attributes="member: 49683">Well it's not like you can rush him to spider ER and have them conduct emergency surgery. Whatever's done is done . . . and I strongly suspect that nothing bad has happened so you might as well relax.Some T's love to chew things up. I have one that keeps sticking a fang through a hole in her enclosure and trying to snap off a piece of plastic with it. She's been doing it for months without any effect but she still tries hard to snip off a piece on almost a daily basis. I know that others have a strong addiction to munching on metal screening. Animals can be dumb.If that background is Styrofoam I wouldn't worry too much about it. That stuff is pretty inert. I suppose it could cause a digestive system blockage but that's assuming that your T is actually swallowing it. I seriously doubt that he is. He's most probably just chewing on it for the hell of it or because he knows that it'll freak you out and he's trying to mess with you.I would just chill, remove the background to quash his source of temptation, and see how he does for a few days. I'm willing to bet that, like most things digestive, this too shall pass.</blockquote>