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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leon" data-source="post: 41089" data-attributes="member: 3588">Hello everyone, I just want to quickly say this is my first Tarantula, she is a Chilean Rose who has molted once a little while back, so if I seem like an idiot, that's probably why and I apologize now.So anyway, my Chilean Rose first ate dubia roaches from the local pet store, anyway they stopped stocking them so I changed to crickets which I personally hate, they die quickly and I always worry with leaving them in the tank just in case the worst happens.I changed back to dubia roaches but she doesn't eat them at all, I throw one in and nudge it until it runs into the spider, but she only kinda turns to face it and lets it through without eating it. I once left it for 24 hours but it burrowed so I removed it.Is this normal? I am very concerned, I'm not sure if she just doesn't want to eat them at all or she is in pre-molt, its been a number of weeks now since she last ate.Thank you</blockquote>