Xenesthis sp. "Blue" eating a gold fish

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This is the first time that I have decided to feed any of my spiders a gold fish. So far so good with the feeding. And is the only decent photo the I can post I did not want to disturb her to much.



Xenesthis sp. "Blue" eating a gold fish
 
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Very cool, before people loose their minds over a spider eating a fish, many of the native fishing spiders in my area will catch and consume minnows, thats not all they eat but they aren't going to say no to a big meal. I even kept a Dolomedes with a shallow bowl of water and would stock it with a minnow or aquatic larva and watch it go to town.
 
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awiec said:
Very cool, before people loose their minds over a spider eating a fish, many of the native fishing spiders in my area will catch and consume minnows, thats not all they eat but they aren't going to say no to a big meal. I even kept a Dolomedes with a shallow bowl of water and would stock it with a minnow or aquatic larva and watch it go to town.
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Well I also decided to give my Xenesthis sp. "White" and my Sphaerobothria hoffmanni gold fish, both tarantulas are eating well. It seems that some of my tarantulas like their new menu.




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jealous tried to offer my genic a little runt rat roday [not yet weaned and fairly skinny] and she was like look foo, nevermind.. only more or less smacked it with palps and front legs =[ i do have some pinkies tho XD maybe in a few days shell nom those XD i dont get goldies they ALWAYS have ick here [aquatic keeper, and dont even want the possibility of that nasty stuff gettin in my tanks] =[
 
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awiec said:
Very cool, before people loose their minds over a spider eating a fish, many of the native fishing spiders in my area will catch and consume minnows, thats not all they eat but they aren't going to say no to a big meal.
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It's not the idea of a spider eating a vertebrate that's a problem, it's that tropical fish may have had various chemicals in their water, or been in dirty/contaminated water. Feeder fish don't get deluxe treatment in pet stores. I'm sure some tarantulas will eat fish in the wild. But I wouldn't take the risk of using feeder fish for my spiders.
 
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Poec54 said:
It's not the idea of a spider eating a vertebrate that's a problem, it's that tropical fish may have had various chemicals in their water, or been in dirty/contaminated water. Feeder fish don't get deluxe treatment in pet stores. I'm sure some tarantulas will eat fish in the wild. But I wouldn't take the risk of using feeder fish for my spiders.
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I never bought minnows I usually caught them myself or bred them in a kiddy pool. I certainly wouldn't feed a goldfish, they are not treated the best and are stressed all the time.
 
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