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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ceratogyrus" data-source="post: 23439" data-attributes="member: 371">Assuming this was in response to me saying that the size of the enclosure is not a problem if it's too big?Firstly, food sources are not readily available. What the average person feeds their spider in captivity is WAY more than what they would get in the wild. In the winter, they would eat very little if at all for example.Yes, with a smaller enclosure the spider will find food easier, but instinctively if the spider is not finding food in a 100 liter enclosure close to its hide, it will widen the net and start looking for food elsewhere in the enclosure. So yes, it will find it easier, but the spider will do just ok in a larger enclosure with the same amount of food. If you look at the majority of tarantula pictures of spiders in the wild, there are very few that ever get as fat as what they do in captivity.</blockquote>