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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 137704" data-attributes="member: 26980"><p>I always feed mine first before doing maintenance.  None of mine would bite....unless you decided to take the feeder back!!  A paintbrush and a catch cup are your friends.  I don't handle mine & they have never asked me to handle them, pure coincidence I'm sure.  While it hasn't resulted in a bite, using tongs to feed larger ones is a bad idea.  They will attack the tongs and almost appear to try running up them.  This means that you'll have to release hold on the tongs and wait until the tarantula loses interest before taking them out.  Just drop in feeders and keep tongs out of reach, especially with L klugi and T stirmi.</p></blockquote><p></p>