I tend not to disturb mine while they are eating. Each spider has a hiding place if needed, usually more than one. For small interventions they go there if they feel they need to. Salmon pink is not interested if it is not food, a bit of noise means it is too big to be edible, as long I am a few cm from the spider the spider remains phlegmatic. Pink toe either feels safe to stay where it is or moves to the nest (I don't do anything in/near to the nest, I wait for the spider to re-house to opposite corner), my routine maintenance is washing walls and fake plants, not a lot happening on ground level ;-) I didn't do anything major for Golden knee yet, that spider goes to hiding place if feeling not safe. David Bowie (female, huntsman) was out of enclosure for re-doing it, just on outside of enclosure wall. When I wanted her back in I gave her a nudge (actually a few nudges) and she moved back in. I no longer have GBB (male) but that one either tolerated maintenance jobs or (once) was moved to temporary box. Generally it looks I had mostly phlegmatic species ;-)
Unfortunately mine has dug a bit of a curved burrow in its cork bark so it's sort of hard to cup it lol
If your spood has a burrow it should retreat to it once it figures out, " hey this ain't food" and scurry off to it. Sometimes you might have to get a little persuasive. Paintbrush or a slight little breath of air can do the trick. Little story: My Harpactira Pulchripes water bowl needed cleaning and she thinks the paintbrush is food and jumps. Startled she retreated. But as I was tearing the webbing away she came back and started touching with her front two legs! She was curious. No threat posing just curiosity. One of the sweetest,coolest things I have done with one of my old worlders. Not a lot of my OW T's I would have trusted but she is a real sweetheart! .
