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Message: <blockquote data-quote="syzygy" data-source="post: 66181" data-attributes="member: 4361">Interesting to hear that this is common among this species.A month or so ago I opened the top to ours and tossed in a cricket.  It's one of those CritterKeeper ones with the hinged door on top. Typically I leave the top open and watch until the T's catch their prey because closing the top tends to put them on edge and then they are less interested in eating.  Once they have their meal they seem not to care as much.  Anyway, the hunt was going normally, but then the cricket somehow spooked him and he bolted.  I quickly closed the top and was looking all around in his terrarium to see where he went and then saw him out of the corner of my eye about 2 ft away exploring the knick-knacks on top of our buffet.  It took my wife and I 30 minutes to contain him. Every time he moved it was a sprint of a couple of feet in one direction or another and would happen in the blink of an eye.  Gives me chills just thinking about it again.</blockquote>