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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WolfSpider" data-source="post: 119203" data-attributes="member: 24627">Congratulations Unsub!  I hope you and your granddaughter have a long relationship with Ts and I hope it strengthens your tight bond together.Slings burrow, cause that is how they survive in the wild.  In addition, they molt frequently, so they are quite vulnerable much of the time.  Thus, they run for cover frequently.   I recommend feeding them 2 fruit flies per week until they can take down bigger prey.  Your Albopilosum will be able to tolerate small crickets soon.  I don't think feeding them ants is a good idea.  A well motivated ant can kill a sling--especially near pre-molt or molt.  For my slings, I drop a flightless fruit fly in or a pin-head cricket and I walk away.  Mine don't usually feed with a big ugly baboon around. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />  Anyway, I'll check on them the next day.  If there is a bolus, I'll remove it.  I moisten their substrate every 3rd day.  They can dessicate easily as slings.  I hope this answered some concerns.  Welcome to TF and a wonderful hobby.You'll probably hear from [USER=3458]@Enn49[/USER] -- she is the bomb, and can give you much better, more accurate, information than I.<img src="http://www.tarantulaforum.com/images/tarantulasmiley.jpg"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":T:" title="Tarantula Smiley    :T:" data-shortname=":T:" /><img src="http://www.tarantulaforum.com/images/tarantulasmiley.jpg"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":T:" title="Tarantula Smiley    :T:" data-shortname=":T:" /><img src="http://www.tarantulaforum.com/images/tarantulasmiley.jpg"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":T:" title="Tarantula Smiley    :T:" data-shortname=":T:" /></blockquote>

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