Pet Rock finally appears! Feeds!

[shulamite]

My little GBB has been here for 2 1/2 weeks with not much movement all this time. Very shy and stays in her hide till night when she webs unseen by prying eyes. Today she was out and mostly in full view, looking bigger and fatter so I now know where at least 2 crickets went. I put a big one in for her a few minutes ago and the unsuspecting thing walked right up to her and BAM she had it in her clutches...very cool to watch.
I haven't found any boluses (boli?) at least I'm not sure...everything just looks like substrate to me.
Is it ok to disturb her habitat this soon and put a bigger hide in there?
Thank you for any info

 

[MassExodus]

Putting a hide in shouldn't be too stressful. You'll recognize a bolus when you see it

 

[kormath]

Our GBB never used the hide we made for it. It webbed it over and ignored it. Ours acts more like an arboreal. It's made tunnels of webbing in the fake plant. We removed the hide a while back and it's happy sitting in it's webbing. Plus it makes it easy to feed the dubia roaches to her. Drop it on the web and she goes nuts to get the food and it doesn't get a chance to burrow in the substrate and get away.

 

[Will]

My juvenile GBB did a lot of exploring when I first got her, and then decided to burrow near the back of the enclosure. She wasn't very visible for a long time but webbed a vertical tube in the corner next to the glass coming up from one of the two entrances to the burrow.

She has moulted since and extended the vertical web upwards a few more inches, complete with a catch net which I usually just throw the crickets onto and watch her hunt. GBB's have a really good feeding response, love watching her stalk/hunt.

She spends most of her time sat just inside the entrance to the vertical tube, which is right next to the glass so she is almost always on display.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that mine wasn't very visible when I first got her but now she almost always is.

 

[RedCapTrio]

I think it is okay. I have placed hides in all my enclos and my GBB Pia went for it the day I got it and went into a recluse for a number of days. I guess it molted but I could not find the evidence and when Pia came out, it was not like my brachys where you can definitely see that it is in postmolt. I then give it some time before giving it its first male Turkistan roach, which it devoured instantaneously!

The bolus, by the way, is roundish and you won't recognize the feeder as it is chewed on and webbed on.