habronattus hirsutus, tranquilus, related species diet and care query

[ratsinafleshsuit]

I have searched fairly thoroughly and cannot seem to find any reports from people who have kept these species long term. I found a paper that implies h. tranquilus feeds primarily on a specific web-building spiders young and eggs, but the paper was about that web-building spider so the focus is there and not the habro species. Found a few people who speak of having them a few years ago but it's just a scrap or two of information on reddit (essentially boiling down to "yeah, I have one of those")

Has anybody here kept these species, or even tangentially know someone who does or has? I'd love to know if you can get them to eat anything other than the specific web-building spiders eggs and slings.

 

[Brewser]

Being as most Spiders including Jumpers are opportunistic by nature, and will take advantage of whatever Life throws at them.
Try appropriately sized feeders available.

 

[ratsinafleshsuit]

Being as most Spiders including Jumpers are opportunistic by nature, and will take advantage of whatever Life throws at them.
Try appropriately sized feeders available.

That was my thinking as well. However I had a suspected tranquilus and she never once (that I saw) showed any interest in the feeders I tried. Two types of fruit flies were both ignored, mealworms seemed to terrify, and frankly I was really afraid of trying a cricket with her because she was so timid. She was wc, so may have simply been very aged. That said, I'm interested in getting another but don't want to doom a creature to starve because of a specialty diet and husbandry.

She recently passed but I will say that her abdomen barely ever got out of the "fed" part of the feeding diagram for jumpers.

The paper cited also said that the way the females lay their eggs involves the web-making spiders' recently vacated web. I am worried that lacking these parameters (the young and eggs of this web-building spider, the web itself for laying) may be detrimental.

Paper in question: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0282:BPASIB]2.0.CO;2

My wonder is if perhaps this species largely just eats only the eggs and young and simply goes without between.