Just for the record, M. gigas are Mygalomorphae, not true spiders (Araneomorphae). I think dealing with their prey is pretty much the same issue as for tarantulas or other inverts... if the enclosure is cluttered it may be hard to tell what's getting eaten. You could clear up the cage a bit, keep careful track of how many prey items you're adding, remove prey if it's not immediately taken, etc.Also I'm newer to True Spiders but are there ways of telling if your spider is successfully capturing prey. My macrothele stays hidden much of the time. I give him a good amount of cover but this also makes tracking his food a bit difficult.
My wc female took a couple days before she started webbing in her new enclosure.I moved my spider (he's inside a hollow corkbark log, quarter sized about now) to a new terrarium that I thought would be easy to take care of him in and he hasn't come out of his log yet to build a web. How well do these spiders deal with the stress of having their webs destroyed/moving? It's been a day and he hasn't really come out at all, even to throw down some strands.
Do they stress out from this sort of thing much?
Thanks
Pretty stong venom from what I read here.Sorry if I missed this, but what's the venom like on these guys?