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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 218829" data-attributes="member: 29323">Personally, I have never worked out how to tell if my small slings are eating or not. I feed beheaded mealworms. So the mealworms stay on the surface & do not burrow.  Occasionally a mealworm gets buried by a sling, which is great. But slings are so small, how do we tell if they are eating or not? As even if we use live food T's have such a habit of not eating for a variety of reasons. And added to that I occasionally find dead crickets in larger T's enclosures, so crickets vanishing is not a guarantee of them being eaten.  Like you, I just pop food in & hope. And given most slings do live, most of the time they are alive.</blockquote>