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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coronanick" data-source="post: 104819" data-attributes="member: 15862"><p>Hello everyone I'm hoping you can answer my dilemma... I have had a avic for about a year... it is a very odd spider... it molted at the beginning of the summer like may to June for complete cycle... without knowing better in July I tore down its web capsule when cleaning the cage... my spider was obviously mad about that and grounded itself for about a month...  eventually going back to its perch and rewebbing again and I thought all was back to normal... my issue is my spider has not eaten since his molt... its Christmas Eve and the last time my spider ate a cricket was early may... it looks healthy and vibrant it mostly sits in its perch and does nothing but occasionally will climb down on the ground for a day or two and then go back up... I put in 3 crickets a week and I leave them until they die... I've tried other bugs I catch I've tried getting the bugs up close to the spider I've tried just leaving them alone and feeding the bugs to keep em alive long enough for my spider to eat them and I got nothing every 3 I put in die... I have good room temps so no direct cage heating and a large water bowl for humidity that I occasionally dump over to water the 1 live plant inside his cage I stopped handling it when I first got it because of the stress... I try to leave it be so it's a happy tarantula but cannot get it to eat... help</p></blockquote><p></p>