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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LeahThomas" data-source="post: 25867" data-attributes="member: 2195">My G. pulchripes sling is a weird eater too. The first time I fed it, it gently took down the cricket. Ever since then, I've never seen it eat. I leave prey in there over night once a week, and for a while she didn't eat anything for about a month and a half. Then she molted! I still don't see her take down prey very often, but when I do it's a lot more aggressive than it used to be. It can be hard to tell when they're in pre molt, since they're pretty much all dark when they're slings and don't usually have much of a bald spot at all that young. What you can look for in terms of pre molt is a pretty plump looking abdomen (usually larger than normal) and your sling will turn darker. When mine turned darker, I questioned if it really did since it happened gradually. It isn't an instant color change. I had to go back and look at old pics of her to confirm that she was indeed darker. When my sling was in pre molt, she let crickets crawl in her burrow, over her, under her, you name it. Your T will eat when it's hungry, which sounds like it may be after a molt. I was worried too, I thought a month and a half was an awful long time for a sling to refuse food (since you're supposed to feed them more than adults) but she was fine after she molted. Good luck!</blockquote>