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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jangmi" data-source="post: 239549" data-attributes="member: 39182"><p>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 ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>