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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerberiss" data-source="post: 234140" data-attributes="member: 48726"><p>Good afternoon everyone! I am new to the site, and the hobby, but I have found so much great information on this forum so far. I am finding myself really scratching my head on this problem I have with my new sling. I have a 3/4" Harpactira pulchripes  that is refusing to eat. When I got it, it was in a 2 inch diameter clear pill bottle and would not take and prey alive or dead. At the top of the bottle I did notice and removed a previous molt. After about a month of having her, I decided  that it may have been the set up she was in, as it had minimum substrate (1/2") for her to burrow and lacked items for it to web up. I switched her to a 6" x 9" enclosure that I drilled vent holes in and provided her plenty of everything I though she would like. It began spitting odd glossy drops on the glass that turn brown with clumps in them and still refused any type of pray (crickets, dubas, meal worms and all appropriately sized). I left it alone for a week and she began a burrow and make a web opening. 3 weeks have gone by and she still refuses to eat. I pre killed a roach and placed it next to its burrow last night and found this morning that it "fell? " into its den and she decided to move out to another location in the cage LOL. I would say I have had it 2 months and haven't seen her eat. I was contemplating about putting it back into a smaller enclosure, but I really don't want to stress her out for no reason. Any suggestions would be great!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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