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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheJuicyFruit" data-source="post: 37032" data-attributes="member: 3275">Yesterday, I had some ants on the wall behind, and around my t's enclosure, not an organized line, but about a dozen stragglers. I didn't have ants before I got a T and was worried that they would attack her, so I tried to ask what to do here, but the forums were down all day :\. I went to google and the only thing that I could find that would possibly attract them to her would be cricket remains, but she eats in her hide. I tried coaxing her out with a paintbrush, but she just didn't want to get out, so I just lifted the hide out of the cage, and her burrow collapsed, which I immediately regretted, because there was NO cricket remains to attract the ants. I had to get her out to fix her hide, so I put her in a catch cup for a couple minutes while i tried to repair the damage I did, and when I put her back in, she was a very different T. Before yesterday, she would move very slowly, and just spend the day either in her hide, or on the wall, not moving much at all. But Yesterday, she spent hours walking around the sides of her enclosure, more quickly than she moved before. I later discovered that a cricket had escaped, and died somewhere in my room, which I believe is what attracted the ants. I consulted google about those disk ant traps, and they said they were tarantula safe, as long as the T didn't touch or ingest them. At about 8:30 I noticed her shaking her legs as she walked into her hide, but she did have substrate on them from digging.Do T's shake their legs to get off substrate, or is that only a symptom of DKS?Why would she be so much more active when I put her back in, after only minutes of being out?Are the ant bait traps really T safe?</blockquote>

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