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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VaporRyder" data-source="post: 201387" data-attributes="member: 37475">So when your tarantula eats, it kills the prey with its fangs -  injecting venom to subdue it and start the digestive process. It then regurgitates digestive juices onto it, crushing larger parts with its mouthparts, and sucking up the liquified meal using the ‘sucking stomach’. I guess it’s a bit like a vacuum cleaner. It leaves the inedible parts in a little ball we call the ‘bolus’, boli in plural.If it doesn’t moult the sucking stomach, then problems occur as it can kill the prey but not consume it properly.</blockquote>