More tarantulas. A LOT more

[Snagrio]

Oh yeah, they can have weirdly specific preferences. I try not to do prekilled for anything but very small babies, but I have a few that just will not eat roaches, or will only eat roaches if I tong-feed them and literally hold the roach down for them. Some Ts are just not quite smart enough to actually hunt them down if they get away and flatten against something. I hate crickets but I've found pretty much any T will eat them because they're very noisy and clumsy and barge around the tank in a way that I guess is enticing. Once they do some webbing you can also try dropping worms into the actual web so they get stuck and can't burrow, but some Ts will be frightened of how violently mealworms thrash around - it can be annoying figuring out who wants to eat what.

I've heard back and forth over if prekilled is the way to go for the same reasons snakes are recommended to eat prekilled (no risk of prey fighting back). That and with the likes of meal/superworms there's no worry they'll escape and bury into the substrate if they're already dead, for example one time I dropped a live superworm for my A. seemanni and it nearly disappeared before she managed to dig it out. But on the other hand the better feeding responses I've had with live speak for themselves so.

In regards to putting prey on webbing, that's worked fine for my C. versicolor who made a web "platform" not long after coming home, but as I've come to find out, A. germani just, don't web, at all. They're behaviorally more like an arboreal wolf spider than what you'd expect of a tarantula from what I can tell.