Feeding little Avic

[Hayden]

Hello,
I posted some questions about my new little A. versicolor. She seems to be doing great, very active, working on a massive web. I have some feeding questions. She is about quarter sized, And I offered her a quarter inch cricket off of tongs. She chose to instead run up the tongs and leap onto my face. She's a handful. I left the cricket in there, I kinda smooshed it, so it's not really doing great. What else should I be doing for her?

[rockhopper]

Nothing. If its hungry it will go find the food. No need to use the tongs though its quite fun to feel the 'hit' when they rip it off.

[Hayden]

Thanks! She's so little I don't think I'd feel it I couldn't feel her in my hair. -_-'
She's a pain in the butt, but she's adorable. I feel like I'm learning a lot.

[Jterry]

Thanks! She's so little I don't think I'd feel it I couldn't feel her in my hair. -_-'
She's a pain in the butt, but she's adorable. I feel like I'm learning a lot.

That's adorable. Aren't little Avics just a blast? When my Versi was a spiderling, I remember not being able to feel her on my skin. They're so cute. I fell in love with her right away

[Hayden]

That's adorable. Aren't little Avics just a blast? When my Versi was a spiderling, I remember not being able to feel her on my skin. They're so cute. I fell in love with her right away

They are so precious. I'm so worried I'm accidentally going to kill her.

[hamhock 74]

Overcaring will do more harm than good with low maintenance pets like tarantulas in my opinion, relax I bet you've already got your little versi under well kept conditions.

How long have you had the versi for, it might be settling in, are you being too forceful with the tongs, the sudden jolt of you putting a little cricket into its webbing might have disturbed it triggering a flight response, for now I'd leave the partially smooshed cricket in there, s/he will get it if its interested if not remove it tomorrow.