Your feeding regimes?

[Rich.Harrington]

Just something that arose to mind this morning on the weekly feed. Many keepers here have spiders that will happily consume more then one prey item in the space of a week. My question is how do you break this down? do you choose to give them at intervals during the week, or all at once on one day?

Currently my G.rosea is eating 2 lobster roaches a week, and until this morning I would give one on a wednesday, then one on a saturday. However I tried feeding one after the other today to see the difference. The spider happily took both, but i'm curious as to this is dipping toes into the realms of powerfeeding or not?

[Colin D Wilson]

Spiders are opportunistic feeders and will readilly take more than one food item at a time as they are "programmed" to feed when there's food around so they have resources for when there isn't much available.

really makes no difference when you feed them, some people have a weekly regimen so they don't forget, some people have feeding diaries, some people feed when they have time.
All are acceptable with an opportunistic hunter.
As i like to regard the situation....they dont have food offered every day in the wild, so unless you're into power feeding for optimum growth (but shorter life span invariably) I like to feed haphazzardly per month, sometimes one item sometimes three - four at a time (when there's visible signs that the spiders not eating remove the food and try every other day with one item as it could be in pre-moult)

[James Box]

i've noticed with a few of mine that without too much justification they'll leave food and not be interested for a while...perhaps they have very long premoult cycles (it's usually the Brachy's and Aphonopelma that do this), but it just seems they're not interested.
also, there are times when the spider seems to wait for me to leave before tucking in. maybe they can be spoiled and end up being more picky?
at least two of my spiders (the Phormictopus sp "Dom Rep blue femur and the G. pulchra for instance) just pounce on food as soon as they sense it
guess it's cause they all have their little quirks.

[craig hill]

it doesnt matter when you feed them...in the wild they do not get a big man to drop 1000's of roaches over certain areas of the world...they eat as they come along...makes no difference

Craig

[Mark Lynes]

You need to get that male B auratum fed more Craig. We need him to mature, my girlies need some lurv action!

Mark

[craig hill]

You need to get that male B auratum fed more Craig. We need him to mature, my girlies need some lurv action!

Mark

mark, he has just gone of his food last week so a moult is due...dont know whether it will be the maturing moult yet

Craig