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So I have a C. versicolor sling (just barely under 1 in. DLS) that's not quite in premolt, but is due for a molt pretty soon. It's plump and has been closing off all but a few entrances to it's intricate web tunnel system, but it's still slightly interested in food. So I put a small cricket in it's enclosure two days ago, but it managed to elude the T and has now been hiding in the small bit of space between the substrate and bottom layer of webbing in the enclosure. My versicolor is not an active hunter, so it has no chance of getting to the cricket unless the cricket goes back into the appropriate tunnel, which the cricket seems to have no interest in doing. Obviously, I don't want to leave the cricket in there any longer, but I don't know of any way to remove it without literally destroying my T's web. So I was wondering if anybody had any tips on a way to lure the cricket out from the bottom of the enclosure without destroying the web. Or if maybe, since it'll need a rehousing after this next molt anyway, should I just move it into the new enclosure now and have it start from scratch just to get the cricket out? Up until now, I've only been feeding my Ts fruit flies and roaches, so I've never had to figure out how to remove a feeder that could pose a threat to a T. Thanks in advance for anybody's input