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I crushed a cricket's head and left it in one of her tunnels where I knew she was and left her alone for 15min. I went back and she was munching on the cricket!
That's how I've fed my other T's and it has worked well for the most part. The Avicularia is my first arboreal, and she's never on the ground in her arboreal enclosure though I have left a couple crickets in the bottom to see if she'd eat them, but no luck.
I have a 1" Avicularia m6 and it took a tiny cricket out of my tweezers and chowed down. Now it's two weeks later and she will not take food. Left some cricket pieces on the foliage she often climbs on. Can't get her to eat now.
She's about 3" and would readily take prey before. After she molted a couple weeks ago, it's like she turned into a different T, and hasn't eaten yet. I would think she'd be hungry.
My Chromatopelma Cyaneopubescens molted about two weeks ago, and now very skittish. She will no longer take crickets from my tongs. She was a good eater! She now spends most of her time hiding under her web tunnels and almost never out. All conditions are species appropriate. If she happens to...