How do I move a sling?

[Shelby]

Ok my GBB sling is ready for a bigger vial.. how to I get the bugger in there? Between being fast, skittish, venomous and fragile.. I don't know what to do!

[Smulkin]

I always put my tiny vials in a bigger shaker then waited for them to make thier way out of it before retreiving the original with foreceps. In the "vast wealth of knowledge" I gained from 4 slings hahahaha. I am still quite an arachn00b, actually but for the life of me I couldnt figure out any other way of doing it with things so small and fragile and fast.

[Shelby]

Ok then.. I hope the vial will fit in the larger box.

[Smulkin]

LOL yep - that's when using that "russian dolls" technique gets tricky!

Plastic parmesan or red pepper shakers from a kicthen store were the best incremental housing steps I wound up stumbling across.

[Schlyne]

I take a 2 liter pop bottle, or a 20 oz pop bottle, and cut it so that I have a funnel shaped piece, with the bottle top being a part of the funnel and so that the bottle funnel has "side walls". if you can cup that over the end of the vial (with the bottle lid on, if the sling is small enough to run out), and then mainpulate the sling into the funnel end (titling the entire thing so that the sling can't fall back into the vial). (Beware, some slings may decide to run up the paintbrush, if you're using it through the lid hole to mainiupulate!) Screw the bottle lid on if you haven't already. Slide a stiff peice of cardboard between the funnel and the vial, so that the sling is now trapped in the funnel. Put funnel and cardboard over new vial, tilt, slide cardboard out, and prod sling into new vial with a paintbrush.

If that doesn't make enough sense, let me know and I'll try to get some pictures for you. I move almost all of my T's this way, including my nasty OW burrowers.

I've also put smaller vial lip to larger vial and gently proded the sling out with a paintbrush..but you may end up chasing the sling that way.

I have however, chased several T's around the bathroom with a deli cup and a paintbrush, due to speed, not staying in the new container etc... If you do transfers in the batheroom, be sure to seal up all the drain holes and the facuets! THe first method I described is pretty escape proof though.

[Smulkin]

good stuff like we all knew you'd post!!

I was watching the clock until you hit this thread

Awesome info!

[Shelby]

Thank you.. but I think I do need pictures if it's not too much trouble. I am very visually oriented.. reading instructions makes me go *huh*

[Schlyne]

My apologies, I didn't see your reply until today.

Instructional to follow. Unforunately, I'm not rehousing slings at this time, but snce I just sold my chaco to a friend, she has been volunteered for pictures.

[jglass38]

Wow. I dont understand a single word in this thread!

[gmmuscle91]

Wow. I dont understand a single word in this thread!

LOL. me neither. is a sling some type of T.?