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Twice a week is more than plenty for even something as voracious as an A. geniculata. I feed even my smallest 1/2 inch slings once every eight days. Prekilled is always good, just to err on the side of caution. But yeah offer it food less often now like once every 8-10 days.

I'm sorry about your beardie. My chinchilla died of a stroke and he was my best friend. I understand how you feel.

I had my first escape this weekend too. Let's just say it was a very stressful hour long adventure to find the tarantula, move ALL the furniture in the room to get to it and that meant moving the bed, moving the shelf with all the tarantula cages on it after carefully putting the other cages in...

Looks like something to put on my Christmas list. :)

Well this is a timely thread because my Megaphobema robustum escaped his Amax box/Sling Container that didn't have a locking mechanism on it just this Friday night. See, he REALLY likes to dig being fossorial and all and I guess he was strong enough to push open the lid and waltz out. Thankfully...

I handled once, a large G. pulchra sling who escaped when I accidentally dropped a cricket on him and I just cupped him in my hands in like three seconds bc I didn't have a catch cup.

They wear out their 'scopulae', the pads on their feet that enable them to climb smooth surfaces when they are nearing a moult. If the tarantula actually fell, I'd remove those decorative rocks as they could potentially injure the spider.

I know he's a troll but it blows my mind that people in general don't know locationally what the difference is between the 'Old World' (pre-Colombian Conquest) and 'New World' after Colombian conquest. Like I KNOW there are non tarantula ppl out there that would be spot on in defining the two...

There should be a stimulus and response reaction. Can you post a picture please?

Can we see a photo of the entire cage so that we might assess whether it is set up correctly for this species of spider?? It looks a bit barren in there.

If it were my spider, I'd personally give an adult H. gigas a bit more head room. Also you should consider that there needs to be a place for the T to dump all the stuff that it excavates and digs through. 3 inches doesn't sound like it leaves a whole lot of room for the substrate to go. Just...

Food items should generally be no bigger than the T's abdomen in length. With crushing the heads though, it's alright if it's a smidge bigger.

I have a 2-3 inch female and i keep half the sub wet and half dry.

It's always fun to discover individual spiders' personalities.

He may not be interested in food or he still might maintain a regular appetite. All of my mature males have been fairly good eaters, so if he doesn't eat one week, wait a couple of weeks and try again. Or he might never eat again and put all of his energy into making sperm webs to the exclusion...

If I were you I'd provide some fake leaf clutter (like plastic plants that you can purchase at the pet store for reptiles) so that there are extra anchor points for webbing. This might encourage her to web more.

Yeah they live in close proximity...with cannibalism.

It's like saying poecis are communal. They always are until they aren't. Just because some website claims its true doesn't necessarily mean that's the case. Even M. balfouri are not known to be naturally communal in the wild, only in captivity do they tend to be tolerant of each other and even...

Very beautiful T!

They do it by feel and they have chemoreceptors in their setae that let them 'taste' what is in their environment so they 'know' what they are doing.