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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sunset" data-source="post: 210868" data-attributes="member: 37682">I keep all my slings moist substrate. I also have them In the warmest area mid 80s, I don't usually water them unless I see the top layer getting dry. Then I use a small mister and mist them. I haven't used fruit flies since about a month after henzi came. They were such a pain. So I just cut what ever feeder insect I had available, usually either dubia, meal worms, or runners. Removed the following day. I have a mixture for my substrate. I use jungle, creature, coco, and add a little charcoal. I add another soil as well, but can't remember the name but I had wood chips, moss and top w some carbon. I mix it all in a big tub. I spray it down filled half way pack it. Add more then add moss, leaves, cork, an plastic plant. All my tiniest slings, hide under the big leaves or behind them and some web all around it. Im also super careful w the amount of moisture I have inside. If the enclosure seems a bit too wet, I leave enough space to add either some moss or cocofiber at the top. I have also read a lot on the slings, and have come across the same information, that slings don't have a good exoskeleton to lock in moisture. I also saw ricks video as well. It's where I got the idea of the warming spot for the tiniest sling stage. Like a mini incubator of sorts. As they get bigger I have lowered the amount of moisture to the regular husbandry requirements. Like when they get to be about 1 in or so or even sprout some hairs, I'll start cutting back. I haven't lost any t as of yet this round. I just started back up in Sept ish last year, so not that long. But I do have several species at various ages and all have been molting and eating great so far. My henzi might of had a bit of a feeding strike last year for about a month. I noticed its food piece never became a shell. I just kept offering new pieces when it was time and misted the lid and side it wasn't on so it had access to the droplets. I'm so sorry you lost all three. Sometimes even when we do everything right, what nature wants nature decides. Best of luck this time around. Definitely don't give up. This is such an amazing hobby with so many amazing different people in it, and there is always room to learn and grow.</blockquote>

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