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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 140851" data-attributes="member: 27883"><p>I try to drop the roaches near the spider, but they don't always cooperate. If they run to the other side if the enclosure, I carefully prod them with long forceps or the skinny end of a paint brush or a shish-kabob stick until they run over to the spider. I try to only touch the roach and none of the cage furnishings. If the roach runs by them a couple of times and they do nothing, then they aren't hungry.</p></blockquote><p></p>