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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuzzball79" data-source="post: 64420" data-attributes="member: 3190">Bearing in mind I just throw the food in and let the Ts work it out for themselves:From botttom of shelf to top:G. Rosea: Has turned into your typical GR (if there is such a thing). Eats when it suits her but can go without for ages, too, even without premolt. She's more of an opportunistic hunter. If the cricket or roach runs by her she grabs it, if it doesn't then she won't go out of her way anymore hunting it down (she used to). It's as if she knows that the prey can't get anywhere and it doesn't matter if she misses a meal or two.A. Geniculata: The average lifespan of prey is about 30 seconds to 1 minute (5 minutes if she's in premolt and just casually kills them for nibbles). She jumps, catches in midflight, digs out and chases relentlessly. It's great to watch. When she's caught them she usually carries them to her water dish or one of her rocks. Saves her from having to web a feeding mat, lol.G. Actaeon: Likes to eat, but isn't the fastest yet. It does eventually manage to catch its food, but I've noticed that with larger prey it eats a little, leaves it stuck to a web and them comes back to it after a while to continue feeding. It's spent 2 days with the last cricket. It usually disposes of the heads behind its water dish.B. Boehmei: Always up for a meal and has tendency of getting quite fat. He seems to even pick up on when his neighbours' are getting fed, because he runs straight to the relevant side of his tub.LP: I got it at about 1/4" and it would run and hide from any live prey, no matter how small (I even tried flightless fruit flies and what a PITA they were). It would eventually eat pre-killed items, so all was good. Then about 2 molts later, it discovered its inner beast. Now, it jumps around like a Jumping SPider when I only open the tub looking for food. When it catches the prey, it tackles it like a rugby pro and sometimes even does a full roll, never letting go of its food.GBB: Again, great eater. When it's hungry it patrols its completely webbed up tub from top to bottom. The crickets occasionally try to hide under the web, but they have no chance. The GBB just bites right through the web and then I usually find it the next day furiously webbing over the damage.A. Versicolor: I don't need to tell anyone who owns a Versi how greedy those are, lol. Anything in her vicinity is potentially food and will get bitten (including rehousing tools, like paint brushes and water droplets or the leaves they land on). The other day I was feeding her a locust. She grabbed it by the front leg and it got away by letting the leg fall off. She sat there for ages, holding the leg in her fangs then took it into her web, came back out and hunted down the locust, as if she figured "Hang on, there's more!". She jumps onto her prey and often lets herself drop backwards onto her bottom web using it like a fall net. She's nuts!A. sp. "Amazonica": I have only ever seen it catch its prey once (grabbed it in mid flight from its web hammock). All I know is, that every time I put a small cricket in, it catches it overnight and munches it in the mornings. T. Gigas: When it was a small sling, it would stalk its prey like Friday 13th Jason. Relentlessly, mercilessly, always ending it with a strike. Now it seems to rather wait until the prey makes its way into its web (they always do), but first it gives me a nice threat display for daring to open the tank, lol (obviously from the safety of its den behind the bark and plants, lol).</blockquote>

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