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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VanessaS" data-source="post: 79387" data-attributes="member: 4948">I think that I am more concerned about doing maintenance and how they react to that. Already my little B. verdezi is a real firecracker and will rush out and attack the tongs. That is a bit intimidating and she is only a 3" squeak of a girl. The C. cyaneopubescens might be more than I bargained for because of how fast they are. I did lots of reading about them being 'skittish', and watched lots of videos, and I still wasn't prepared for them to react the way they did the other day when I rehoused them! No videos I watched showed them bolting all over like that. Dropping the food in with them will be no problem, but trying to get food out, or do maintenance is a different story. I am going to have to put them in the bathtub every time in case they bolt.  I'm hoping that when they get comfy, and are able to web up the enclosure a bit, that they will be more inclined to hide in their web than to immediately bolt the minute I crack open the lid.It makes me a bit uncomfortable to think that I will be dealing with those behaviours with a spider who could be in excess of 9".</blockquote>