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<blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 78817" data-attributes="member: 4199"><p>Agreed, these are non-climbing, but you really gotta watch them as they're tiny and i can't feel the smaller ones crawl on me. I can watch them run across the back of my hand but i can't feel it.</p><p></p><p>I won't have little slings for long that can eat these little guys, the rosea mostly, until she molts a time or 2 more. then she'll be big enough for the pinhead lateralis. I think i'll breed these also just to have a variety until she totally outgrows them. at 1/2" full grown i can feed them off until she's an inch or so then it won't really be worth it to feed her a couple at a time.</p><p></p><p>As for invasive, even though lateralis are said to be i have had no problems yet. They can't climb smooth surfaces, so they're easy to catch if one does happen to escape. Seems i find one here and there running across the hallway or somewhere. Not sure if they've escaped when i or my son was feeding or found a way out of the vent holes in the enclosures. They're easy to catch and when i do find them i give one of the Ts a mid week snack <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Now i use a 2nd bin when sorting them out in the catch cups to feed with. I think that's where most of our escapes happened. This way they just fall into that 2nd bin or climb out into that bin and can't get away. Since we started doing that I haven't found any around the house. Trick is never lose more than one at a time. that way they can't breed and invade <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kormath, post: 78817, member: 4199"] Agreed, these are non-climbing, but you really gotta watch them as they're tiny and i can't feel the smaller ones crawl on me. I can watch them run across the back of my hand but i can't feel it. I won't have little slings for long that can eat these little guys, the rosea mostly, until she molts a time or 2 more. then she'll be big enough for the pinhead lateralis. I think i'll breed these also just to have a variety until she totally outgrows them. at 1/2" full grown i can feed them off until she's an inch or so then it won't really be worth it to feed her a couple at a time. As for invasive, even though lateralis are said to be i have had no problems yet. They can't climb smooth surfaces, so they're easy to catch if one does happen to escape. Seems i find one here and there running across the hallway or somewhere. Not sure if they've escaped when i or my son was feeding or found a way out of the vent holes in the enclosures. They're easy to catch and when i do find them i give one of the Ts a mid week snack ;) Now i use a 2nd bin when sorting them out in the catch cups to feed with. I think that's where most of our escapes happened. This way they just fall into that 2nd bin or climb out into that bin and can't get away. Since we started doing that I haven't found any around the house. Trick is never lose more than one at a time. that way they can't breed and invade ;) [/QUOTE]
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