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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 136032" data-attributes="member: 26980">Indeed crickets have problems, but they are useful like canaries in the coal mine if you're going to put something that might be sketchy into your spider's enclosure.Of course, if you have a Lasiodora or a Pamphobeteus species, crickets are no match for them.Think of it as trash meeting the garbage disposal. I think it's hilarious to make these 2 work for their food and go hell bent for leather around the cage catching them.My Pamphobeteus will literally grab crickets and slam them at full speed into the wall before dispatching them. I tried leaning my cell phone against the glass to catch it and when she hit, the phone was knocked off the shelf.I was lucky enough to catch it before it hit the floor.Tossing a few of them to the T stirmi is also highly amusing. That's sort of like what happens if you fall into a black hole.Of course, that's true for anything you feed to a T stirmi.My pokies also strongly prefer them.</blockquote>