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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenKnight" data-source="post: 197656" data-attributes="member: 37091">Hello All,Need some advice based on the below.  Learned alot, but wondering if any of it had to happen at all.I had crushed the head of a roach the other day and dropped it in the enclosure, but looked as if the roach hid under the dirt by the plastic bushes.  I hadn't seen Cleo find and eat the roach for days, so was getting concerned that the roach had died and was going to spread bacteria etc. in the small enclosure.   So took the enclosure and placed it in a much larger enclosure and attempted to nudge Cleo out into a nearby container, so I could rummage through the soil and dig out the dead roach.  Long story short, Cleo bolted right out, and ran to the very edge of the largest enclosure.  I've posted pictures of the method by which I eventually got her back in her enclosure (numbered for your viewing pleasure), but through this ordeal, a couple questions came to mind:1.  Should I have even done this in the first place? I never found the roach so of course she hunted and ate it (probably at night)...she knows what she's doing.  However, if she hadn't, was this the right thing to do?  Any rules of thumb for when to go through this trouble to confirm if a feeder has died and should be removed?2.  As you can see, she was very close to being able to simply go over the big enclosure's corner and then be lost in the garage.  When folks re-house their tarantulas, I heard not to do it on a table, since they could fall, so garage floor was my best bet...but then there's plenty of places for the tarantula to hide. Where do folks do their re-housings etc?  3.  When I initially touched her abdomen with the paint brush, she didn't budge at all, and then the second time, she just bolted straight out and kept running.  With such a small enclosure, was their a better approach I could have taken to make her slow walk out (which she did the first rehousing I did when I bought her)?  I was thankful to have seen lots of Tom's Big Spider videos for Re-housings, as her sudden bolt, while surprising, didn't cause mass hysteria.  I stayed calm and collected and thought through how best to bring her back.  Now I feel a bit ridiculous that I put her through all that, when she had eaten the dubia all along.  Thanks for your thoughtful feedback in advance.  I want to get better at this and avoid any needless stress on the T, but honestly was concerned for her health.  It's my first T by the way so learning a lot about T Husbandry.</blockquote>

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