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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul H." data-source="post: 155462" data-attributes="member: 29331"><p>Hi there! In this enclosure, there is no cross ventilation. The one it came in had some, but the enclosure was like 6 times the size as this one and couldn't find its food. I figured that between the two, this one would be best. Especially since most small sling enclosures that I see only have top vents. I do not allow it to get stuffy in there or anything. I keep a real close eye on that. I did however purchase a dremel over the weekend with several small drill bits for making (holes in) enclosures, so I may add some. I had some other sticks and foliage in there previously, but it was really disturbing the spider trying to remove the water dish and cricket corpses with all that in this little enclosure, not to mention pretty cumbersome for me. Since this sling prefers to just walk the outer perimeter of the enclosure, and not on the foliage, I took most of it back out. The crickets I'm feeding are just a bit smaller than its abdomen and carapace, although it's eaten some slightly bigger. It just spent the last day and a half eating one. Pretty cool looking as it had used 2 anchor points to keep the cricket hung on the side of the enclosure, much like Spiderman would leave a criminal hanging there so the cops could come and take them. So yeah, this is one of the crickets that got sucked completely dry before it cut the anchor points and let the cricket drop to the floor. This little Versicolor seems to be doing ok, even though it's non growth/molting is causing a bit of stress for me. I just want it to thrive, and I keep hoping to walk in one morning to see that it had slithered out of its old skin.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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