A. geniculata abdomen rupture?

[Tarantula_Tamer]

So i have heard quite a few times from people that certain spiders (aggressive feeders) will eat until their abdomen basically "pops", when i heard this before i dismissed the idea, and thought it was probably another tarantula myth that people got stuck in their heads... but i hear it more and more, and by the looks of a few of my spiders, including a geniculata and a c. dycsolus, they do just keep eating no matter how big and how often. i was jut wondering if anyone has fed their T until it has popped or did it just poop? mine all seem to get to that point, and molt, but when the first two meals after a molt make the T as fat as they ook in pre-molt, do you just keep feeding them? i usually wait until they look a little thinner, but that can take weeks!

Thanks, and i didn't go through and check how many times this question has been asked.. so excuse me.
Corey

---------- Post added 09-15-2011 at 11:13 AM ----------

So, i went through and looked at the other posts regarding this question, seems like people are saying that the T will know when it is full, but does that mean you should still offer a meal when the abdomen is twice the size of the carapace?
it seems obvious that you wouldn't and i thats what eveyone else i know personally does as well, im just curious if there is any documentation of an abdomen rupturing (without the T falling from anyhting).
or if they will just stop eating, because i have a few spiders that have never refused a meal, even just before a molt.
so any insight would be appreciated!
sorry for the babbling, just trying to her what everyone has to say, i get this question asked to me a lot.

 

[captmarga]

I withhold feeding if I think they are too fat.

This weekend at an Expo, Reclusa was talking to a T owner about B albopoesum (curly hairs). He said be careful overfeeding them, as they will grab anything you throw at it. They will then get so big in the behind they cannot support it, and it drags. This will form a rubbed spot, a scab, that will rupture during molt.

This seems the most logical thing to a T eating to the point of bursting as well. More food, sooner to molt, and if there is a weak spot, it might rupture before the animal is to that stage of molt.

LUCKILY though I have some fatties, I haven't had this happen... Fingers crossed.

Marga

 

[paassatt]

This weekend at an Expo, Reclusa was talking to a T owner about B albopoesum (curly hairs).

* B. albopilosum

 

[Tarantula_Tamer]

I withhold feeding if I think they are too fat.

This weekend at an Expo, Reclusa was talking to a T owner about B albopoesum (curly hairs). He said be careful overfeeding them, as they will grab anything you throw at it. They will then get so big in the behind they cannot support it, and it drags. This will form a rubbed spot, a scab, that will rupture during molt.

This seems the most logical thing to a T eating to the point of bursting as well. More food, sooner to molt, and if there is a weak spot, it might rupture before the animal is to that stage of molt.

Marga

Exactly what i was wondering, sounds perfectly logical to me.
thanks for replying with this, just another reason to stop feeding when they get too fat, even if they won't completely rupture.