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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nenneh" data-source="post: 223219" data-attributes="member: 40717">Hello!I got a brachypelma smithi about 2 months ago. I just wanted to ask a couple of questions that I've stumbled upon since getting it.This is my first spider. I keep geckos and snakes but haven't kept spiders yet. Been interested in it for a long time though, so happy to finally get into it1. Since I got it, it hasn't eaten at all, hasn't even seemed interested. I tried once per week at first but then I've just tried one or two times in the last month.It has not been acting stressed or aggressive. However today it molted (the panic attack i got when i saw the underside of my spider btw, was so glad when I realised it was just the molt :O). I read that they can be in pre-molt for a long time, so that could explain it not eating. Could this be right?The temperatures etc checks out with what I've read from multiple people (using a heat lamp). 2. To actually adress the title. How do you remove crickets or roaches if the spider doesn't eat. In my experience with the other animials I keep it just stresses them out if you don't remove it, and from what I've read that's the case with spiders aswell. But when a cricket for example escapes into the spiders burrow it seems very hard to get it out without disturbing the spider. Maybe it's simply better to feed with tongs?The feeding videos on youtube I've watched never seem to encounter the problem with uneaten prey, so I didn't really think of it... :/</blockquote>

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