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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoneyBeeeHappy" data-source="post: 218828" data-attributes="member: 37926">I'm used to this sort of thing - I have a burrowing snake, after all. Sometimes you just gotta assume its alive - if the food has been mysteriously disappearing, then it's probably alive. Since Pumpkin died, I've been waiting to find another g. pulchripes sling on sale. I got one, and its smaller than mine was when she died. But it's still much bigger than Pumpkin was when I first got her - she was just over a week old and absolutely miniscule. Was never really interested in hiding though. I guess I just got used to Pumpkin's "personality" because this one is baffling me a little.Haven't seen it since the day I put it in it's new enclosure. I tossed a tiny cricket in there in the hopes that it'd "disappear" and that would be my sign-of-life evidence. The cricket was alive for over a day, then it wedged itself between the plexi and cocofiber and I thought it'd died so I planned on removing it this morning(last hope was that it'd be eaten while I slept again, wasn't optimistic), but this morning it was gone. I've gently poked around and haven't been able to find it. I hope it got eaten, but it might have just gone to ground under the sling's cork bark chip; This happened a few times with Pumpkin. The cricket might dart for the nearest hiding spot before she could pounce(which only made it easier for her ofc). The only difference is that it might be a safe hiding spot if the sling isn't alive to eat it. Originally I was pretty sure the new sling was alive because for the first two days or so I saw evidence of terraforming - it widened the burrow considerably. No web carpets though.Not sure how to tell if it's alive now. I'll give it another cricket soon, but I'm going to feel really dumb(and sad <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> ) if I learn I've just been sending crickets to starve to death in an empty burrow.  I really hope its alive.</blockquote>

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