Hard HIT

[Sathane]

My genic is an insatiable eater, not so much a hard hitter. P. cancerides, though - yes, a very hard hitter.

Acanthoscurria geniculata

Phormictopus cancerides

 

[VESPidA]

another vote for the vagans... i call him my red rumpster-dumpster

 

[Loudog760]

My GBB. She will kill anything that moves in her cage!

 

[zes]

i think mine is a tie between A.geniculata and X.intermedia
My genic is bigger and it pounces on the roaches/crickets even before they hit the substrate. My intermedia is much smaller and it does the same pouncing thing once the roach hit the substrate. Being about the same size as the roach it literary roll around wrestling it sometimes in the midst of killing the roach
(the roach i fed is is about the same body length)

 

[sdgfour]

Toss up between G. aureostriatum and A. veriscolor slings. The chaco barrel rolls multiple crickets and the versi jumps off the walls at them.

 

[Anthony Straus]

Nothing quite like watching a micro-sized Cyriocosmus elegans tackle and roll around with a monster superworm. I wish I had that one on film!

 

[Rochelle]

I think the Grammostola slings are the most fun to watch when feeding...we call it the "spider rodeo"..lmao! They barrel roll and flip on their backs, holding their prey in a full nelson just like little wrestlers.
The C.elegans are pure evil when it comes to feeding time. It's amazing how one so little can be SO ferocious!
The GBB's are just plain eating machines..sort of like land sharks, lol!

But ~ all the others are fun to watch, as well...very distinctly different ways of approaching their food. Some will stroll and casually pick up a morsel; some will stalk and some will bum-rush. I never get tired of watching; and that probably accounts for why it takes so looong to finish up with feeding & watering days.

 

[Sathane]

For sure. I've performed complete maintenance on my entire collection in under 90 minutes before but it just wasn't as much fun. It easily takes 2-3 hours now since I watch my favourites take their meal. I sometimes tong feed my aboreals and the less flighty terrestrials.

I think the Grammostola slings are the most fun to watch when feeding...we call it the "spider rodeo"..lmao! They barrel roll and flip on their backs, holding their prey in a full nelson just like little wrestlers.
The C.elegans are pure evil when it comes to feeding time. It's amazing how one so little can be SO ferocious!
The GBB's are just plain eating machines..sort of like land sharks, lol!

But ~ all the others are fun to watch, as well...very distinctly different ways of approaching their food. Some will stroll and casually pick up a morsel; some will stalk and some will bum-rush. I never get tired of watching; and that probably accounts for why it takes so looong to finish up with feeding & watering days.

 

[AudreyElizabeth]

another vote for the vagans... i call him my red rumpster-dumpster

Hilarious!

 

[Dillon]

The centipedes tear it up the most during feeding time, hands down....;P

But T's....My B. Albo is actually a frickin beast at only 3". :}

But, the "Hardest Hitting" T would be, hands down, my P. Ornata. Lightning.

 

[Moltar]

I think my GBB hits prey the fastest but my 6" P. cancerides is the only T to ever actually rip a pair of tongs out of my hand.

 

[SNAFU]

GBB hands down at the moment. Lightning fast strike and impales prey easily.

However, when my (currently 1") Theriphosidae sp. "Peru" get's larger, I'm sure it will be a very hard hitting T. At just 1" it actually, believe it or not, "jumps" up and rips the prey directly from my tweezers. On the odd occasion that the prey makes it to the substrate, it regularly tackles it's prey so hard it does flips.

Feeding time is very exciting around here.

My G.iheringi would do the exact same thing as a sling! Leap out and grab a cricket off the tweezers! If you dropped one to him he'd pounce it so hard he'd roll~lol. Now that's entertainment!

 

[rustym3talh3ad]

my roommates G. rosea RCF doenst persay hit the hardest but hes "trained" it to catch crickets like a baseball, my roommate just throws it at the burrow and the RCF snatches it outta mid air, craziest thing ive seen in awhile.

now the hardest hit ive seen is G. pulchra...the little 1.5" sling we have, if u drop a cricket near it, its done and over....if u drop a cricket to where the cricket will run towards the little pig he will hit it so hard they do barrel rolls and summersults...which makes me wonder if anyone has ever been bit by a hungry adult....what was it like???

 

[micheldied]

right now,my OBT.
she just jumps at my tweezers when i open the lid to feed her.