GBB feeding observations

[shulamite]

WeeLob came to live with me last Christmas. She was maybe 2 1/2" when I got her, is maybe 1/2"bigger now after 2 molts and about 5 crickets a month for food. She would rarely come out of her lair except to web at night so I didn't get to see her in action very often.
Last Saturday I bought 8 crickets and she devoured 3 almost immediately and seemed way more bold than usual; wandering around her terrarium and even visiting the water dish for a drink.
A really interesting thing I noticed when I brought the crickets home was that one of them had a deformed/broken off back leg. It seemed just as active as the 7 other crickets and so I figured it was healthy enough to be WeeLob's dinner.
Its the only cricket Weelob has not eaten out of the eight which seems to indicate taratulas prefer healthy non-defective food or else this particular cricket is really good at surviving.
Your thoughts?

 

[Tomoran]

I think your cricket is just a survivor, because my Ts will take live crickets, hobbled crickets, half-squished crickets, and for the little ones, pre-killed crickets. They definitely do NOT discriminate

 

[VanessaS]

My grown guys will eat anything that moves... even if it moves a bit slower than most. My spiderlings will all eat pre-killed.

 

[MassExodus]

Pure chance. An animal in distress or maimed will pull a predator, any predator, faster than a healthy one. The others probably just moved around more, so were eaten quicker.

 

[shulamite]

Thanks all for your notes about tarantulas and their feeding habits. Mr Survivor is still hanging out uneaten right above Weelob's lair

 

[shulamite]

Let us have a moment of silence for Mr Survivor. He's gone to Cricket Paradise. I was kind of rooting for him but in the end Weelob wanted Sunday Dinner.