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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steph" data-source="post: 28443" data-attributes="member: 3015">Hi Steph, thanks so much for the suggestions you gave. Yesterday I noticed Sophie (that's her name) had, in the previous 24-hour period, done some interesting excavation in her burrow. (That'd be about 3 1/2 days post molt). She'd completely widened the entire entrance to the borrow, along with the tunnel leading down deeper into the borrow. I was impressed. It also occurred to me that if she felt good enough to move all that substrate around, she's probably about ready for her first post-molt snack. I have to be gone for about half the day, so I figure that sometime this evening or tomorrow morning, I'll give her a fruit fly. As for reaching the skin she shed, I have an 8-inch pair of tongs, but because of the chunk of bark hot glued to the side of the enclosure I can't come down from the top to grab it.  So I'll keep an eye on what she does with it, and go from there. Thanks again, good to meet another spider fanatic  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>